Bemused wrote:Wow, three years of deadheading equipment 104 miles (each way) on a daily/weekly basis...anyone know the location of the mother lode?
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:Better start budgeting to purchase the Worcester Main outright from PAR and pump it full of SGR $$$, because if the hospital train has run out there nearly every day for years on end they're going to start landing on the ground a couple times a month just like PAR does on that cromulent excuse for a "main line".
MBTA3247 wrote:There appears to be an intact ROW for a long-abandoned connection between those two lines in Clinton, but it would still require trains to change ends, and you may end up having to spend the SGR $$ saved on the Worcester Main on the Fitchburg Secondary instead. I don't know what the traffic potential on the latter is, but from a state-wide perspective it probably makes more sense to fix the Worcester Main to encourage freight traffic.
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:And unless you're building Framingham-Northboro commuter rail, which studied pretty nifty on rush-hour ridership but is absolutely no one's idea of a Top 6 extensions build priority,
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