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The cars can run without the components fully installed, so there'd be no reason to sideline over a third of the fleet at a time over that (and the same wasn't happening for the Type 7/8 installations). Most likely when it says "held for parts" it's something mechanical needing attention, and...

From NETransit. . . Nine of the agency's newest LRV's (38% of the fleet) are out-of-service because of lack of parts. Where the hell is CAF vendor support hiding?!? This better not be an omen for how Type 10 maintenance goes. This is on top of 22 sidelined Type 8's that they also don't have...

I followed the RR.net threads on Golden Eagle for years. I'm very comfortable with what I said, because whole LOTS did not add up with their business plan and media practices.

They acquired a locomotive, but scam outfit Boston Surface RR (of vaporware Providence-Worcester private passenger service fame) also did that (briefly...until it was repossessed for nonpayment of lease). Leasing a unit is not hard. It's everything else in the business plan that's hard, and so...

Mike Muller is delusional if he actually believes what's coming out of his own mouth.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/08/17/new-poll-shows-ed-markey-with-a-big-lead-over-seth-moulton-in-massachusetts-senate-primary New polling in the Markey-Moulton race, from UMass-Amherst. It's...not...looking like much of a race. 60-32 Markey among likely voters with 2 weeks to go before the...

Dude...Alewife did over 11,500 daily boardings in the 2019 counts. And it's going to 3-minute frequencies soon, so the ridership bump from increased service should get it par-or-surpassing the pre-COVID counts in a few years. There's no way you're "improving" the neighborhood moving the...

I don't know what you mean. 91 really can't go east of the river. You'd have to blow-up/rebuild the Charter Oak Bridge to increase its capacity if it's going to be carrying all of I-91/CT 15/US 5 at once, and the interchange with east-west CT 2 has truly nasty ramp geometry while being plunked...

The 2003 NSRL Major Investment Study took a very rough stab at trip pairings for the 2-track and 4-track builds in its Operations Study chapter. The results were...not very elegant at all. Given that there's an inherent mismatch in south vs. north endpoints, I don't see how you run the whole...

That question has been asked a thousand times on RR.net. Brake tests are but one of the procedures engineers are required to perform when changing ends. It's not the only one. There's a whole required checklist of things that must be done to vacate and tie down one operator's cab, move down...

Right now they're doing an even better job choking it all away with complete analysis paralysis than MassDOT is with Allston. There's been basically no movement for a decade on either the sunken replacement for the hideous viaduct or the relocation of the mainline + 91 interchange out of...

Changing ends entails a Class 3 brake test, as opposed to the more-involved Class 1 test for trains that are split/combined or been powered off for greater than 24 hours. The regulations are extremely complex and hard to change, and even stuff like syncing the U.S.'s regs with Canada's for how...

The T didn't do any cleaning eons before the Pioneer crowd came into power. It's old habit, not new(ish) austerity. Still on-target for the first cars to arrive before the end of the year. Usually there's a press release when the first completed cars are shipped by boat from South Korea, so...

Framingham Secondary is owned by MassDOT, not the T. So Eng might have been speaking in his capacity as Transpo Secretary when he gave that soundbite. Any improvements to the freight-only portion would definitely be in the MassDOT CIP, not the T's. MassDOT Rail Division specs Class 2/30 MPH...

You would have to change ends at PTC and do FRA-mandated brake tests when restarting the train from the cab car (or from the cab car to the locomotive). That takes a minimum of 10 minutes, so you're only saving 5 minutes at most. At most. Mainline station is still going to beat anything you...

Your detour takes 2-1/2 extra miles--with at least two speed-killing sharp curves--to cover the same distance at hundreds of millions of dollars more cost (because 95 does not have the room most of the way for even a single track, and you'll be blowing-up/rebuilding every single interchange to...

I'll say it again: 2-car platforms at the busiest non-Boston stop for what's soon going to be fixed-length 6-car Airo trainsets is insane and disqualifying. And what is with that driveway in the render? I don't even see a way in that doesn't involve a serpentine and dangerous trip through the...

Pawtucket is RIDOT owned/managed, Route 128 Station is Amtrak owned/managed (the T owns/manages just the parking garage). Exterior washing is a T-particular rarity.

Probably not a great idea to have that much glass to regularly wash in a high-emissions area above locomotive exhaust and next to 6 lanes of Pike traffic. Because, being the T, they wouldn't ever wash it.

If Reading can be made a full 2-track station, they wouldn't need to do the turnback track at all. You just need a passing solution so a thru train on the next :30 frequency can berth while the turning train is idling on the platform for a schedule adjustment before the return trip, and have...