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Kenmore Street, which still exists, was around by 1895 . The Hotel Kenmore didn't come around until 1916. "Kenmore station" was the surface stop at Governor Square outside the Boylston Street Subway portal, named for the street. It had a prepayment area to serve Fenway Park crowds. On Dece...

Niles Canyon Railway is on the west part of the ex-SP ROW between Fremont and Pleasanton. Valley Link is proposed to use the east part of the ex-SP ROW from Livermore eastwards.

The second platform at Clinton opens Monday, April 4: https://portal.ct.gov/DOT/News-from-the-Connecticut-Department-of-Transportation/2022/New-Boarding-Platform-Opening-at-Clinton-Railroad-Station Weekday train service to and from Clinton Station is increasing from 11 trains to 23 trains, and weeke...

ACE is frequency-limited because it shares tracks with freight, and it is only really useful for getting to Silicon Valley - especially without the Dumbarton Bridge, there's no real way for it to serve SF and Oakland. For all the flaws in the Valley Link plan, it links with BART for direct service t...

Two sets - one with power cars 2108/2109 and the other un-numbered - were at Race Street Yard on March 26. (My photo.) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Avelia_Liberty_trains_in_Race_Street_Yard_%281%29%2C_March_2022.JPG/1280px-Avelia_Liberty_trains_in_Race_Street_Yard_%281%2...

Sadly, the abandoned Spring Garden station was demolished within the past year.

As mentioned, Braintree–Cohasset was briefly electrified. Overhead electrification on the connecting Nantasket Beach Railroad was more successful, lasting from 1895 to 1932. The Lower Falls Branch was electrified from 1900 to 1930, when the M&B stopped running streetcars, taking away the line's ...

Yes, trains turned up the Worcester Branch to Clinton and used the lower level there. That connection at Clinton Junction was added in 1903 with the Wachusett Reservoir reroute. Marlborough service was added in 1902 with the addition of a connecting track at Gleason Junction. Prior to that, Hudson w...

Boston Landing also has an island platform. All other Worcester Line stations between Grafton and Lansdowne have side platforms, and those planned for reconstruction will continue to have them. Ruggles, Forest Hills, Route 128, Lowell, Littleton/Route 495, and Porter are all island platforms geograp...

I believe BERy replaced all of the infrastructure on Route 72 when it was converted to a trackless line. There was a brief period where it was operated with diesel buses during the conversion. Looks like it was a 6-month replacement - much speedier than the T's plans! Gasoline buses, incidentally -...

Library of Congress has a huge collection of scanned Sanborn maps. The 1918 map that I posted is linked in my post.

The Monday opening may be a precaution in case an addition weekend closure is needed for the Government Center Garage demolition. Recent rapid transit openings have been a mix of days. During the 1960s-1980s expansion period, openings were mostly Saturday for extensions, and Monday or Tuesday for re...

It appears to have been a different company - see here: http://www.rocksvillage.org/rocks-villa ... t-landing/

Originally a narrow gauge horsecar line called the Sea Side Railroad, which ran from 1879 to 1883. Converted to a standard gauge line, the Black Rocks and Salisbury Beach Railroad, in 1884, and expanded to Salisbury and beyond in the late 1880s. Electrified in the early 1890s, though steam dummies w...

This was the layout: https://i.imgur.com/bD6Hmcg.png (From 1918 Sanborn map .) What remains appears to be the walls of the NYW&B platform level on top of the north abutment (pink and blue in the above map). They can be seen from Lorraine Avenue on Street View , and in 2004 here . The New Haven L...