by Rockingham Racer
My guess is Palmer, and perhaps Warren which is close to Ware and the Brookfields.
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diburning wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 1:28 am The B&A runs through a lot of nothing. If they decided to stop at any towns along the way, this is what I would think would be up for consideration:The only stop, from your list, that is being considered as part of the current study is Palmer.
Rochdale
East Brookfield
Brookfield
West Brookfield
Warren
West Warren
Palmer - The Steaming Tender is campaigning hard to bring a train station back to the town, they think it would bring tourist money in.
Wilbraham/Ludlow
The EGE wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 2:45 pm .....stops ..... probably depends more on local politics than what's theoretically ideal.Getting to Wellesley Square is a disaster at any traffic time. I would choose West Newton as the train station seems to have a large parking lot (Newton just "gave away" their parking lot in Newtonville to greedy developers), and is ~~8 minutes or less by car from 128/I-95. Newtonville was a long distance stop because it was located on the county road which became 128 (prior to 128 moving to it's current alignment about 1953). Auburndale would be even better but there is no likelihood of a parking garage there and too much NIMBY.
.....The main intercity stops at that time [by 1959] were South Station, Huntington Avenue/Trinity Place (Back Bay), Newtonville, Framingham, Worcester, Palmer, Springfield, Pittsfield, Chatham, Albany. I would probably swap Newtonville for Wellesley Square, and add Westfield with its state university.
Train60 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 6:03 amI'm not surprised. I just pretty much listed all of the towns on the line that appeared to have a significant populaton.diburning wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 1:28 am The B&A runs through a lot of nothing. If they decided to stop at any towns along the way, this is what I would think would be up for consideration:The only stop, from your list, that is being considered as part of the current study is Palmer.
Rochdale
East Brookfield
Brookfield
West Brookfield
Warren
West Warren
Palmer - The Steaming Tender is campaigning hard to bring a train station back to the town, they think it would bring tourist money in.
Wilbraham/Ludlow
Of course nothing prevents them from adding additional stops, someday.
BandA wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2020 12:10 amCannot figure out where the historic Charlton station was. Tying in with the RT20 "suicide alley" and I-90 is a head scratcher, and a station in Charlton would be too close to a station in Oxford + a station in Spencer / E. Brookfield.The old station, if there was one (my atlas doesn't show a former station there, but that could be an error), was likely immediately west of the Rt 31 bridge, in the area Google refers to as "Charlton Depot". Several street names there are railroad-related.
BandA wrote: ↑http://nashuacitystation.org/station/ma ... /charlton/ should provide some help.
Sat Aug 15, 2020 1:10 am
Cannot figure out where the historic Charlton station was. Tying in with the RT20 "suicide alley" and I-90 is a head scratcher, and a station in Charlton would be too close to a station in Oxford + a station in Spencer / E. Brookfield.
The old station, if there was one (my atlas doesn't show a former station there, but that could be an error), was likely immediately west of the Rt 31 bridge, in the area Google refers to as "Charlton Depot". Several street names there are railroad-related.
Arborwayfan wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2020 9:23 am Something BandA said made me wonder: Is the idea for this to be a commuter service mostly, or is the idea for it to be a state-sponsored intercity service that MassDot and the T would operate because the already exist and would be more under state control than Amtrak?Best bet would probably be a mixture of both. Have the T run commuter service to Springfield then contract Amtrak to run the rest of the way to Albany. I can see CSX playing ball with Massachusetts for commuter service to Springfield if the state will pay for a second track.