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Would an east-west rail line to Springfield and/or beyond work better or worse if it expressed past most of of the stations between Framingham and Back Bay (and also between the Mass. state line and Albany)? The proposed 2 a day Amtrak service would stop at Springfield, Palmer, Worcester, Framingha...

Depart NYP 8:50 PM arrive SPG 12:26 AM 136
Depart SPG 6 AM 143
Depart NYP 8 PM arrive SPG 11:22 pm 146

Beginning June 5 Amtrak will be adding a second daily regional through train round trip to Springfield. On the weekend this will mark the return of trains 143 and 146 (with 146 returning as a both Saturday and Sunday train.) On weekdays 141 will depart an hour earlier and train 125 will be extended ...

The reason for no night owl sleepers is what was indicated in regards to the new circulation of the equipment. The trainsets used for the night owl now make a run between Boston, Newport News and Roanoke and are the equipment for two other daytime Virginia regionals that are part of that run and ope...

Investigation is warranted but it does seem premature to officially assign blame before even the official NTSB investigation is complete. In fairness though it's not just the Biden admin or its friendly media playing politics here. Some of the fear mongering stuff coming out of a certain anti Biden ...

You are correct on the December timing - the train ride he took with Gardner was in August.

Other than claims of dead livestock and itchy eyes, the environmental damage does seem minimal in comparison to pipeline incidents involving ethanol and MBTE spills. I like how the Times tried to bring Trump into this, but admits at the very end later that the Obama changes which were rolled back (...

Right now, MBTA is subject to the jurisdiction of three federal agencies, FRA (commuter rail), USCG (ferries), and FTA (everything else). This bill and a companion bill would mostly spin out the operations subject to FRA and USCG jurisdiction. While keeping the Fairmount line in MBTA keeps an MBTA ...

cle wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 12:57 pm I thought that was the Charlie Baker grand rail tour of late - or was that for another piece?

They recently submitted the grant so its still outstanding.

If they get the CRISI grant they've applied for then the 2 New Haven - Hartford - Springfield - Boston trips will happen. The current work is to lengthen some of the sidings on the B&A, get the MAS for the B&A between Springfield and Worcester up to 79 MPH and to add a siding on the MBTA Wor...

In this case, I-84 is more direct than rail, a diagonal route, whereas the rail line heads north to SPG and then east on the B&A/CSX main line. Greyhound and Peter Pan run direct service via I-84/90. Maybe so but the presence of Greyhound/Peter Pan service does not mean no one would use rail. I...

You are correct. Some will be remaining. Most will be replaced by the "ALC-42E" Charger that's part of the "Airo" trainsets. I also suspect that with the larger number of Acela 2 trainsets that the Acela equipment will handle the bulk of the captive Boston - New York - DC frequen...

What are ICT's? Siemens Intercity trainset - Amtrak is branding them "Airo" trainsets. Venture based semi permanently coupled push pull trainsets being purchased essentially to replace the Amfleet 1 equipment as well as well as the Horizon and Talgo equipment being used on the Cascades. T...

Requires money to be appropriated. They can RFP all they want, but it is far from an order. $66 billion was appropriated for intercity rail as part of the IIJA - another several billion was authorized under this bill for the accounts. The first section is NOT subject to appropriations and some of t...