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It crossed today's NH 111 around Landsdown Dr, here: https://goo.gl/maps/yJpBSJ49f9k" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; The right of way has been obliterated by road widening and new development between where the tracks and road diverge around Hammar Rd and Simon St on the othe...

I think this is a serious journalism whiff. Via and CN prior to 1990 did share the tunnel. There are rare pictures of the ex-CN boxcabs hauling the Senneterre trains, tied on in front of the FP9, through the tunnel. Further, that tunnel is heavy rail as is the Deux-Montagnes line. It was once run b...

This has been done, and it's been explained. Yet you poo-poo the ideas that state agencies themselves have studied and published. Every plan that comes up you shut down and then complain no one has ideas. Perhaps no one has any ideas that you like? No, it hasn't. The Patrick administration blew a b...

And that's exactly what I'm saying - think outside the box. Don't just build a commuter rail station there. Figure out a concrete plan for decent local transit service along the Worcester line, then build a station designed for that. Sure, you can go ahead and keep building commuter rail stations wi...

Do we know if the intent is just to sell out to states, etc. to reduce the tax burden, or to sell off entirely to a shortline, competitor, etc.?

And after reading through that list, what ISN'T CSX selling!?

You're literally advocating to squander the land on auto-dependent development and then shoe-horn in a station (and the connections dependent upon that station which would even make a walk to the B Line feasible) after that auto-centric development takes root. I'm sorry, what? I'm not advocating au...

Any idea what the "emergency station repairs" are?

It needs to provide local service. It's been 55+ years since the local stations came off (University or Cottage Farm, Allston Depot, Brighton, Faneuil, Newton), 40+ years for Riverside. This year is the 50th anniversary of the Watertown "A" line "temporary" bustitution. There is...

The problem is that a lot of the 'activists' clamoring for West Station are doing so from the perspective of "every transit proposal is good and must be pursued!" usually without any appreciation for how it ties into the whole network, or how it affects operations. There's also a lot of pe...

There are other costs. Even of only South Side lines were electrified, every locomotive engineer, conductor and anyone else who works on trains has to have ongoing training as do M/W and M/E personnel. But that's not significantly different than every time the T buys a new type of any rolling stock...

Perhaps some MBTA riders can confirm this. I have seen comments that the MBTA does not put passengers in cab cars leading, except during rush hour passenger loads. This is correct, but it's less to do with safety and more to do with operations. Cars are opened as needed starting at the locomotive e...

I'd be very surprised if anything were repainted soon, given that SLE and NHHS will share a common equipment pool for the foreseeable future.

But then again, this is ConnDOT we're talking about...

I was curious as to why Brightline is running Ft. Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, which is also served by Tri-Rail. Then I saw the schedules. Brightline takes about 40 minutes. Tri-Rail takes about an hour and 40 minutes. Brightline is $10 (regular) or $15 (first class, including drinks/food and lounge...

IIRC Charlie 2.0 will include ticket machines at some outlying commuter rail stations.

Every time I see CTrail though I always have to stop myself from pronouncing it "See Trail".

It would have been a lot better if they had at least capitalized the R (CTRail). That would help immensely with my brain actually interpreting it as "CT Rail" not "C Trail".