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Per a Reddit comment from someone who knows and spoke with the operator of that train, the man was on the train and pulled the emergency brake lever which unlocks the doors when the train stops. He then jumped out. No way for platform screen doors to prevent something like that.

New Flyer has had an absolutely abysmal run on reliability of their product for the last 10 years. There's a reason why Reddit has such a vocal contingent of D40LF fanboys; the fit-and-finish quality on the XDE40's is subpar and they're breaking down too often compared to the older stuff. I...

It's much worse. You get no schedule improvements with battery-electric push-pull vs. diesel push-pull, while BEMU's lop 20-22% off schedule lengths because of the much faster starts/stops. You can forget about trip time savings driving ridership, and forget about schedules having the...

If they were going to do a stretched supercar with half-and-half configuration, some of the low-level sections would have to have powered bogies instead of being unpowered like the Type 8/9 center trucks. That would end up constraining the space exactly as much as the all-low cars on the...

Westfield has no official proposal for an infill stop. The only one they considered west of Springfield--and it's a long ways a way until BOS-ALB gets a bunch of frequencies--is Chester. Unfortunately, Westfield is well within the PVTA bus district so it's not transit-starved in the...

There also aren't as many near- off-shelf shopping options for combo high-and-low floor vehicles. Most modern makes of tram these days either all low-floor or all high-floor. The half-and-half era was pretty short-lived because it was just too hard to design modular mass-market product...

Berkshire Flyer runs are frequently sold out NYP-Albany due to the Amtrak service reductions on the Empire Corridor, so a lot of people who want to get tickets for Pittsfield are frequently S.O.L. because the trains are so overbooked for regular Albany patronage. It should get better now that...

They're slowly selling the ones that have been languishing in-storage since pre-COVID. 6 200-series trailers and 2 1600-series cab cars are currently listed for-sale, and the number of for-sale units has held steady for awhile. It's mostly enticing tourist railroads to pick up some of the...

Per NETransit... The first two coaches in the new Rotem bi-level order were just delivered to the T: blind trailers 400 and 401. 70 trailers and 10 cab cars are due on this order over the next 2 years.

That was the best the Glob could find for the "opposition"?

Russia severely lacks the internal capacity (thanks to their own war) to refine enough to export without creating crippling domestic shortages for themselves. And the Administration damn well knows that (whether the guy in charge retains the faculties to realize it or not before he tweets)...

If it's the same seating configuration as the Caltrain KISSes without any additional specs fiddling to change the layout it'll be 93-96 seats per car, with slight differences in the powered vs. trailer cars. For a bi-level, that's pretty pathetic. It won't matter on Fairmount because the...

Metra is buying pretty much vanilla FLIRTs straight outta the catalog (save for a light bit of FRA-compliance cruft under the relaxed new rules) while the T is buying Caltrain's customized-to-@#$% KISSes, and fumbling around blindly trying to customize them even more. Stadler is kind of the...

Yeah...demand is temporarily exceeding supply, and the market does what it does when that happens. That is not the same as "run out". If you're going to allege it's about to "run out", you better have some cold hard facts to cite in favor of that instead of your usual vibes hottake horeshit...

And only one-fifth as expensive purchased as the ones the T is going to LEASE and then have to give back.🤮

Note that the date for pilot car delivery has slipped. In the May board meeting they were saying September 2026 (now) for the first delivery. In this new press release they're going with a more vague "next year".

Diesel is not going the "run out". What the hell kind of concern-trolling nonsense is that??? :rolleyes: And the T buys it wholesale, which is *somewhat* less susceptible to price shocks than the daily-changing price you pay at the pump. They'll overshoot their fuel budget for sure, but it...

They'd have to get an Amtrak crew as an escort to boot, because the T does not have trackage rights west of Worcester Union Station, does not have any crew qualifications on that territory because of the lack of trackage rights, and does not have any crew qualifications on both the loco types...

They physically can't do that for signalling reasons. The Positive Train Control system on the west-of-Worcester B&A is I-ETMS, while MBTA equipment is only equipped with ACSES PTC. The T doesn't run in any I-ETMS territory whatsoever so has no compatible equipment or staff trained on it...

It's not going to be easy to appeal hard camera evidence. When other systems have deployed this technology, there's a quick rash of violations and then people quickly get the picture and violations drop off by up to 80% or more because they're not worth chancing or fighting. That's the logic...