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Was the South Shore also designed for this, with diesel passenger trains to points south connecting to Red Line at Quincy Center or Braintree instead of direct service to South Station? No. The T had no plans whatsoever for restoring Old Colony service when the South Shore Extension of the Red Line...

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There was another commuter loop that used the Highland Branch and the Needham Line via Cook Junction. It was short-lived, though, as the federal government forced the NH and B&A to discontinue that service under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Where would they have run a shuttle to while North Station was being relocated?

As best I can determine, the last regularly scheduled service on the Brattle Loop was a short-lived shuttle between there and North Station that ended in 1952, which served as a replacement for the subway service lost when the surface car lines from the loop to Sullivan Square were abandoned. Does a...

Please stop with this nonsense that the T will cripple service patterns by running electric trains without first installing the limited amount of infrastructure needed to actually run them. When they do get around to electrifying the Providence line, all of the station and yard tracks currently with...

The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library recently did a collaborative project to rename Boston's subway stations. Some of the resulting names are pretty funny.

This gets into my last reply's question: Why did nobody contact control to block off the traffic first before allowing the disabled train to be moved out of 95th and perform the 4-to-M crossover near 103rd? I mean, that disabled train was basically manual operation. From the sound of things, the di...

Adding an additional span eliminates the 4-track bottleneck across the Charles River, allowing them to increase service by giving each line (Fitchburg, Lowell, and the combined Haverhill/Newburyport lines) a dedicated pair of tracks into the station.

It's an RDC, by the way - Rail Diesel Car.

I haven’t seen any plans to upgrade the mainline with any second track expansions. There's no need to. The single-track through Quincy and Dorchester poses a hard limit on how many trains they can run. Unless and until that bottleneck can be removed, they can't increase service beyond what they alr...

Yes, some 01800s have their blue propulsion disable lights on. One of the reasons to replace the 01800s is difficulty in obtaining propulsion control system parts. Here is another example of a rail agency not inserting proper contract provisions to have a supply line for future spare parts. The 018...

I don't know about it being an outdated material, but over time it does get scratched up and yellows from exposure to the sun. This problem affects other railroads as well, they're just more proactive about replacing window panes (and let's be honest, the T DOES have better things to spend the money...