deathtopumpkins wrote:But is this work preparation for that? I'd have thought it was already usable in its current state, considering they already regularly run test trains on it.
deathtopumpkins wrote:Any idea what's going on with the third track on the Orange Line? Sometime around last weekend orange construction fencing appeared all along it, with a bunch of construction equipment staged just behind a derail at the hi-rail pad just north of Community College. Was looking at it again this morning, and the third rail has been removed between Community College and Sullivan, and there was a work crew doing something on the bridge over the commuter rail (with an accompanying painfully slow speed restriction). Is this just third rail replacement?
Type 7 3684 wrote:Shuttle buses replacing Green Line service between Lechmere and North Station due to Boston Fire Department activity.
BostonUrbEx wrote:Yes, it has to do with the power blocks. The real question would seem to be why they wouldn't have been running JFK-Ashmont if they could run JFK-Braintree. I have a theory, but can't really figure out why they did that.
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:What are they doing to Blandford pocket? It's marked OOS with ties chained to the middle iron and flanked by traffic cones. Broken rail, or are they scheduling a mini- work job before the Sox home playoff opener?
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