by Safetee
i'm guessing that the steaming tender could be purchased and rehabbed for a lot less than the far far uglier springfield station.
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Safetee wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2019 6:39 pm i'm guessing that the steaming tender could be purchased and rehabbed for a lot less than the far far uglier springfield station.Good luck persuading the owners to move their railroad themed restaurant elsewhere after they spent a ton of money rehabbing the place.
jonnhrr wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 10:15 amIf they refuse to sell at a reasonable price Amtrak can acquire it by exercise of its federal eminent domain authority. The applicable statute reads as follows:Safetee wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2019 6:39 pm i'm guessing that the steaming tender could be purchased and rehabbed for a lot less than the far far uglier springfield station.Good luck persuading the owners to move their railroad themed restaurant elsewhere after they spent a ton of money rehabbing the place.
Safetee wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 8:10 pm the beauty of the palmer station is that it is in fact a beautiful extremely well built historic structure and if the mass to new london service ever actually happens, it could kill two birds with one stone.I believe that proposal was to use the P&W line between Worcester and New London, the former State of Maine Express route. There is no proper connection at Palmer to be able to run a train down to New London on the NECR without doing a reverse move at Palmer.