10. Authorization to acquire the rail line Connecticut River Main Line from along the Knowledge Corridor from Pan Am Southern and all adjoining property, as well as passenger rights held by Pan Am between Springfield and the Massachusetts border for a purchase price of $17,000,000.
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:I'm just surprised PAS is selling it that low.
edbear wrote:The MBTA does own quite a bit of trackage outside the district. Fitchburg, Lowell, Haverhill, Newburyport, Brockton, Attleboro, Plymouth, Gloucester & Rockport are way beyond the MBTA district which was set up about 1964. There are also places where the MBTA owns freight only trackage or now abandoned track that are beyond the district like Maynard, which opted out of the MBTA, and Hudson.
BostonUrbEx wrote:Besides the Vermonter, isn't this also a part of a Springfield-Hartford-New Haven commuter rail service to be operated by Amtrak (in addition to the NEC shuttle)? I was sifting through the PDFs recently. Supposedly to be running by 2015, though it seems to be hushed up on the MBTA forum.
CN9634 wrote:Approved today. MBTA given rights to run the line. PAS made out with $17M, not a bad deal for them.
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