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Because they're decaled and not painted. It's the same for the 900 coaches.

PTC was fully implemented prior to the cab signal "upgrade." There are still no cab signals from Wonderland in. A planned service disruption was cancelled in the spring due to a conflict between the lay of the land and how the new system works, so they went back to the drawing board to sol...

The MBTA's property line cuts into Spaulding's parking lot on the approach to tracks 11 and 12. The tracks can be connected without the building coming down.

Keep in mind that a "Propulsion Fault" doesn't mean that the car has NO propulsion, but that there is a fault in the propulsion system, perhaps 1 or 2 motors out of the 4 aren't working. On DC equipment, motors are wired in 2 sets of 2 (typically #1 and #3 motors in series and #2 and #4 in...

OOS track may also be referred to as the future No. 1 track, as the right hand track away from Boston is always odd (as are train numbers). So when it is double tracked, the new track will be the No. 1 and the current single track will become the No. 2.

Closed for housekeeping. Way to many nesting quotes and way off topic.

...I still have $20 on a Charlie card that expires in December per the date on the card. As we have relocated to just outside the sound of the Surfliner (when it runs) I'm not sure what good this card will do for me. Off topic but important: If you make it into the area again before the card expire...

Even in the busiest of times, layover yards are empty during the day. The trains are in Boston (where the people are) during the day and away from Boston (where the people are) overnight.

Well look what the goddamn cat dragged in! For folks who don't know, CS was SERy2831's predecessor here and he ran our forum when it was the busiest. He went on to head a more locally focused discussion group after being involved here. He was instrumental to our forum and we're ecstatic to have him ...

Remember that the 1500/1600s were not designed with sensitive edges that popped doors back open. There's discussion on here from back when about the "THESE DOORS DO NOT RECYCLE" stickers later replaced with "THESE DOORS DO NOT REOPEN AUTOMATICALLY." The sensitive edge in this cas...

Companies were forcibly relocated to facilitate this abandonment. It is not a natural response to an economic reality as many abandonments unfortunately are. Beacon Park was busy up until the day service ended. Had it not been for Harvard smacking their lips at their opposite riverbank, it would sti...

There is more than one interest in relocating the post office annex. In addition to SS expansion, the city would like to restore a contiguous Dot Ave to Congress St. I don't remember where that currently stands but it's got plenty of local and state support and I'm sure the big heads at those levels...

CR, I agree with some of your points, but why are you so virulently anti-TM? Sorry if facts conflict with your 1950s choo-choo fantasy. That's why. They and like minded folks have determined that their own ideas are superior, and if you disagree with them based on familiarity with the real world, y...

I really wish people would stop giving transit matters a voice. Trains every 20 minutes when no one is riding them isn't "equity," it's waste. Running empty trains because you don't have station capacity at the hub is more wasteful than just increasing hub capacity. This elitist idea that ...

The ONLY correct thing to do is to bulldoze Ashmont station in its entirety and construct a modern iteration of the BERy design that was more ADA friendly (90 years early) than the atrocity which does nothing other than cater to the hideous appearance of "modern" at the detriment of all wh...