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Progress report on NEB&W HO layout at RPI

 by Steve Wagner ¦  Fri Jan 15, 2021 2:46 pm ¦  Forum: Toy Trains, Model Railroading, Outdoor and Live Steam ¦  Topic: Progress report on NEB&W HO layout at RPI ¦  Replies: 0 ¦  Views: 561

January 15, 2021 The model railroad club at RPI has produced a video showing its new quarters. See railroad.union.rpi.edu to view it. The rooms look spacious and are climate controlled; the group will have plenty of room to work in. Scenes of the layout that has been dismantled are also included. I ...

Re: MBB Overhaul

 by Steve Wagner ¦  Mon Feb 03, 2020 3:44 pm ¦  Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦  Topic: MBB Overhaul ¦  Replies: 179 ¦  Views: 45293

I think I've ridden in only one MBB-built coach or cab car in which 3-2 seating had been installed, and that was years ago. The 2-2 seating and the large windows are the MBB cars' strong points from a rider's perspective.

Re: Which 20 coaches are to be rehabbed?

 by Steve Wagner ¦  Thu Oct 24, 2019 2:08 pm ¦  Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦  Topic: MBB Overhaul ¦  Replies: 179 ¦  Views: 45293

Thanks to all those who have provided more information on this! I actually think this is good news. As a rider, I actually prefer the MBB coaches, for two reasons. First, they have larger windows than those on the other single-level cars. Second, nearly all of them have proper two-two seating, and s...

Re: 2019 Commuter Rail Delay Thread

 by Steve Wagner ¦  Thu Oct 24, 2019 8:04 am ¦  Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦  Topic: 2019 Commuter Rail Delay Thread ¦  Replies: 111 ¦  Views: 29690

Updates posted Thursday, October 24 before my work day officially starts at 9 a.m. The Boston Globe has reported that the bicyclist killed by a train on the North Shore a couple of days ago was a professor at Emerson College, quite new to the area. The outbound Commuter Rail train scheduled to leave...

MBB Overhaul

 by Steve Wagner ¦  Thu Oct 24, 2019 7:46 am ¦  Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦  Topic: MBB Overhaul ¦  Replies: 179 ¦  Views: 45293

A story from the State House News service in the Boston Metro (distributed free at many commuter stations) dated Wednesday, October 23 reports that Rob DiAdamo, "executive director of the commuter rail", told the MBTA's Fiscal Management and Control Board on Monday the 21st that 20 out-of-...

Re: RPI Layout (NEB&W) - Forced Relocation Coming

 by Steve Wagner ¦  Tue Oct 22, 2019 8:21 pm ¦  Forum: Toy Trains, Model Railroading, Outdoor and Live Steam ¦  Topic: RPI Layout (NEB&W) - Forced Relocation Coming ¦  Replies: 9 ¦  Views: 4078

October 22, 2019

Has anyone seen any recent news about this? I got in touch with the person in charge of "Communications" at RPI a few weeks ago; he replied that he'd check, but I haven't heard from him since.

Re: 2019 Commuter Rail Delay Thread

 by Steve Wagner ¦  Fri Sep 06, 2019 2:33 pm ¦  Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦  Topic: 2019 Commuter Rail Delay Thread ¦  Replies: 111 ¦  Views: 29690

Friday, September 6 3:27 p.m. I was on the first inbound train from Concord, MA, this morning but haven't had a chance to post until now. I learned at home in Maynard that it was stopped at Ayer because of "freight interference" and was running 40-50+ minutes late. It left Concord at 6:38,...

Re: 2019 Commuter Rail Delay Thread

 by Steve Wagner ¦  Mon Aug 19, 2019 9:01 am ¦  Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦  Topic: 2019 Commuter Rail Delay Thread ¦  Replies: 111 ¦  Views: 29690

Monday, August 19, 9:56 a.m. The first inbound train from Wachusett this morning (#400) struck and killed a man about 21 years old, apparently at or near the Brighton Street grade crossing at the Belmont-Cambridge line, where trains normally travel very fast. I boarded the next inbound at Concord, w...

2019 Commuter Rail Delay Thread

 by Steve Wagner ¦  Sat Jan 12, 2019 7:35 am ¦  Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦  Topic: 2019 Commuter Rail Delay Thread ¦  Replies: 111 ¦  Views: 29690

A fairly frustrating Friday evening commute: I stepped outside from Harvard Law School at 5:29 p.m. January 11 just in time to see an outbound 77 bus leave the stop on Mass. Ave. I walked to Porter. I was passed by two more buses, which I then passed before they got to Porter. I got to the platform ...

2019 Subway Delay Thread

 by Steve Wagner ¦  Fri Jan 11, 2019 8:49 am ¦  Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦  Topic: 2019 Subway Delay Thread ¦  Replies: 36 ¦  Views: 12678

The Boston Globe's website posted this story, by John R. Ellement of its staff, a few minutes ago: " Person struck by train at Fields Corner station; Red Line service suspended "A person was struck by a train at the MBTA’s Fields Corner station in Dorchester, leading to the suspension of s...

Re: 787 Construction

 by Steve Wagner ¦  Mon Apr 23, 2018 8:54 am ¦  Forum: Delaware & Hudson ¦  Topic: 787 Construction ¦  Replies: 9 ¦  Views: 9454

Monday, April 23, 9:41 a.m. EDT While looking for something else I found the following this weekend, in Delaware and Hudson In Color Volume 2 by Jeremy F. Plant and Jeffery G. Plant, published by Morning Sun Books: On page 14 the location noted is Half Moon [NY]. A photo has this caption: "The ...

Re: 2018 Commuter Rail Delay Thread

 by Steve Wagner ¦  Mon Apr 16, 2018 8:22 am ¦  Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦  Topic: 2018 Commuter Rail Delay Thread ¦  Replies: 144 ¦  Views: 45447

Monday, April 16 (Patriots Day) At about 5:30 this morning the electronic sign at Concord depot stated that the first inbound train from Wachusett (due to leave Concord at 5:41) hadn't even left the layover yard because of mechanical and switch problems. I drove to the Alewife garage, taking the onl...

Re: 787 Construction

 by Steve Wagner ¦  Fri Mar 02, 2018 8:33 pm ¦  Forum: Delaware & Hudson ¦  Topic: 787 Construction ¦  Replies: 9 ¦  Views: 9454

The account of the D&H unit trains that helped build I-787 in the Capital District isn't in Dereco In Colr: The N&W Tests the Waters in the Northeast 1968-72 , by Arthur J. Erdman, published by Morning Sun Books in 2015. I've just now (March 2, around 8:25-8:30 p.m.) looked through my copy. ...

Re: 787 Construction

 by Steve Wagner ¦  Fri Mar 02, 2018 8:22 pm ¦  Forum: Delaware & Hudson ¦  Topic: 787 Construction ¦  Replies: 9 ¦  Views: 9454

I have read an account about this, possibly with some photos. Here are two preliminary guesses as to where. First, in the Bridge Line Historical Society Bulletin, which has now been published monthly for more than 25 years. The second is one of the several books on the D&H published in relativel...

Re: 2017 Commuter Rail Delay Discussion Thread

 by Steve Wagner ¦  Wed Oct 11, 2017 7:28 am ¦  Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦  Topic: 2017 Commuter Rail Delay Discussion Thread ¦  Replies: 282 ¦  Views: 81001

The person struck by a train in Concord, MA about 10:30 or 11 p.m. on Monday, October 9 was an 18-year-old day student at Concord Academy. He died. Transit Police posted that the student had been trespassing on the track near Nashoba Road and no foul play was suspected.

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