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A Portland to Portland corridor service called the Downcader, alternating runs with Talgo and Amfleet equipment.

If it happened during B & M ownership, and B & M ignored it for 20 years or more, I assume the law of adverse possession applies unless there is a special exception for railroads; is there? If there was an easement and the parcel it was "eased" from was the encroacher, I imagine a...

That's the only thing that remains of the six previous stations, to my knowledge. I believe that the locomotive relief keystone remains as well on the exhaust stack on Clarendon St as well. I wonder what will happen to it if and when that area is redeveloped. Some of the relief rescued from the old...

I always prefer to sit on the "port" side going south from Boston. The ride through Lil' Rhody and along the Connecticut shoreline is quite scenic (well, it is before New Haven), though the morning sun can by blazing hot some days, even in the cold of winter, when there isn't as much shade...

The old B&M Ammonoosuc Valley line from the NH/VT state line in Woodsville to Littleton, NH. It runs along the Ammonoosuc River, through Woodsville, Bath, Lisbon and into Littleton. It is quite scenic.

This includes converting a busy freight yard into an empty tax-exempt lot. That's harvard's doing. Though the T pays not taxes either. Just to clarify: those parcels are not tax exempt. For example Harvard paid the City of Boston $72,887.83 in FY 2015 taxes (which ended on June 30 of this year) for...

Does anyone know what train Amtrak took up to Maine in 1990 for an exhibit? I once saw a photo of it sitting on the abandoned Union Branch in Portland, but can't find it anywhere. Could it have been this? I remember visiting this while it was on display in Boston North Station for a few days in the...

If the dates on these videos are correct, it looks like they snuck at least one out to LA recently..

Amtrak's New Viewliner Baggage Car in Los Angeles

Amtrak Viewliner Baggage car, UP PTC testing, and AMTK 145. Railfanning 6/4/15

Maybe a Boston North Station to Lincoln NH run, via Lowell, Nashua, Manchester, Concord, Franklin, Weirs Beach, Meredith, Plymouth and finally into Lincoln/North Woodstock. Much of the track is under public ownership (MBTA and State of New Hampshire), with Pan Am owning Nashua and Concord. It doesn'...

Are those guys the people who spray painted the Bronx side of the north tower? Graffiti artists should take their work away from old and potentially valuable and historical infrastructure and go ruin something else. Highly unlikely. Vanshnookenraggen is well known among us here in the in the archit...

That story is about Kansas City's Union Station, which is now a science museum as well as an Amtrak station. It still serves Missouri services and the Southwest Chief

njt/mnrrbuff wrote:The governor of NH doesn't want it. It would be nice through.

Actually, my understanding is that there is a long-standing US policy (probably dating back to the days of the Founding Fathers... War of 1812 era or earlier) that "no foreign potentate" shall hold sway on US soil, and that is why we don't allow preclearance facilities at US airports. (Em...

. Here's a summary of the effort underway to return the Vermonter to the Conn River Line. "Countdown begins for return of passenger rail service to region" http://www.gazettenet.com/home/9724077-95/countdown-begins-for-return-of-passenger-rail-service-to-region By Chad Cain and Richie Dav...

I would say either is fine too. I do think one of the prettiest parts though is the point the tracks run alongside the Merrimack River between Lawrence and Haverhill (left side of the northbound train), but I think there are more scenic farmland and ocean views on the opposite side further north on ...