F-Line's response over to ArchBoston regarding the bridge: It's money more than leadership. When the bridge needed a top-down rehab 20 years ago the state wanted nothing to do with it, so the Corps fronted 100% of the cost. Cape Flyer simply laterally traded for the weekend slots pre-allotted for Ca...
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Re: Southcoast Rail
by GP40MC1118 ¦ Fri Jun 02, 2023 11:02 am ¦ Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦ Topic: Southcoast Rail ¦ Replies: 1315 ¦ Views: 348816Re: Southcoast Rail
by GP40MC1118 ¦ Tue May 23, 2023 11:03 pm ¦ Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦ Topic: Southcoast Rail ¦ Replies: 1315 ¦ Views: 348816I just found it in my e-mail archives. This was posted to Railroad.Net in June 2017: F Line has nailed it again...(answering the italicized question below) What's it take to delete the electric requirement, do double tracking, and terminate in Taunton until demand is proven. This should go to the ba...
Re: Southcoast Rail
by GP40MC1118 ¦ Tue May 23, 2023 11:00 pm ¦ Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦ Topic: Southcoast Rail ¦ Replies: 1315 ¦ Views: 348816I wish I could find it, but a very knowledgeable former contributor - F-Line To Park(?) wrote a fantastic response to the Army Corp report via the swamp a few years ago.
Re: Mass Coastal Railroad (MC) Discussion
by GP40MC1118 ¦ Mon May 15, 2023 5:54 pm ¦ Forum: New England Railfan ¦ Topic: Mass Coastal Railroad (MC) Discussion ¦ Replies: 698 ¦ Views: 196945Yep...it's in a quasi "captive service" between Fall River and Canal Electric.
Re: Equipment at West Springfield MA power station
by GP40MC1118 ¦ Thu Apr 27, 2023 10:47 am ¦ Forum: CSX Transportation including Pan Am ¦ Topic: Equipment at West Springfield MA power station ¦ Replies: 3 ¦ Views: 856Heard the engine and flatcar are headed to Rhode Island.
Re: Mass Coastal Railroad (MC) Discussion
by GP40MC1118 ¦ Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:52 pm ¦ Forum: New England Railfan ¦ Topic: Mass Coastal Railroad (MC) Discussion ¦ Replies: 698 ¦ Views: 196945Yep!
Re: Southcoast Rail
by GP40MC1118 ¦ Sat Apr 15, 2023 8:43 pm ¦ Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦ Topic: Southcoast Rail ¦ Replies: 1315 ¦ Views: 348816MBTA Test Train Saturday to the new Fall River layover yard at Weaver's Cove. Tested the plug in stations. Mass Coastal towed the equipment down
from Middleboro. LTEX 3010/3815 with the 2010/4 car set out of the Middleboro Layover Yard.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGONSh2vVxQ
Re: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter Rail
by GP40MC1118 ¦ Wed Apr 12, 2023 10:55 am ¦ Forum: New England Railfan ¦ Topic: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter Rail ¦ Replies: 847 ¦ Views: 196697It's still there. A photo of it appeared on Facebook earlier this week.
Re: Mass Coastal Railroad (MC) Discussion
by GP40MC1118 ¦ Fri Apr 07, 2023 5:38 pm ¦ Forum: New England Railfan ¦ Topic: Mass Coastal Railroad (MC) Discussion ¦ Replies: 698 ¦ Views: 196945I think they are only clearing a little in order to make more room for the power off MC-4. Wish it was more than that...
Re: Rotem Cars Discussion (new bi-level cars)
by GP40MC1118 ¦ Fri Apr 07, 2023 5:37 pm ¦ Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦ Topic: Rotem Cars Discussion (new bi-level cars) ¦ Replies: 2250 ¦ Views: 582201849, 850, 1830, 1831 coming up from Rochester/Middleboro tomorrow
Re: F40PH-3C overhaul program
by GP40MC1118 ¦ Fri Apr 07, 2023 5:36 pm ¦ Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦ Topic: F40PH-3C overhaul program ¦ Replies: 1023 ¦ Views: 2131281071 & 1072 headed to Middleboro tomorrow on an extra. Headed to Erie
Re: CSX Framingham Secondary Discussion
by GP40MC1118 ¦ Wed Apr 05, 2023 9:29 pm ¦ Forum: CSX Transportation including Pan Am ¦ Topic: CSX Framingham Secondary Discussion ¦ Replies: 47 ¦ Views: 23943The CSX locals from Middleboro and Framingham usually swap trains at Attleboro using the eastbound platform track and also the long passing siding from the tower that heads all the way to the former Texas Instruments plant site off Haggerty Highway.
Re: What's left of Boston Area Customer's
by GP40MC1118 ¦ Wed Mar 29, 2023 3:52 pm ¦ Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦ Topic: What's left of Boston Area Customer's ¦ Replies: 10 ¦ Views: 1869The MBTA is technically a customer - coach and locomotive shipments plus some oddball MW materials like rail. Then there are the Welded Rail Trains. In Everett, the scrap place and Ciment Quebec are the biggest customers. After that are now rare reefer loads to the former NEP site (off-loaded direct...
Re: F40PH-3C overhaul program
by GP40MC1118 ¦ Tue Mar 28, 2023 12:34 pm ¦ Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦ Topic: F40PH-3C overhaul program ¦ Replies: 1023 ¦ Views: 213128Oh boy. Wonder if they will try to work on the 1071 at Middleboro? Left the two 900 series coaches behind too!
Re: F40PH-3C overhaul program
by GP40MC1118 ¦ Mon Mar 27, 2023 12:27 pm ¦ Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦ Topic: F40PH-3C overhaul program ¦ Replies: 1023 ¦ Views: 213128Two different defects. I can't say anymore specific.