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Why not leave the Portland station where it is? For one, there's nowhere on the main line that they could put a station that will be much closer to anything of interest. For another, the current station has lots of parking. And for the bulk of Downeaster passengers who travel between Portland and p...

Wouldn't it make more sense and be as straightforward as possible just to name it the Twin Cities? Alternatively, in recognition of both endpoints it could be the Windy Gopher.

Brightline West Groundbreaking to take place Monday Brightline West plans to break ground next week on its Las Vegas-to-Southern California high-speed train system. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will join Brightline founder Wes Edens and federal, state and local officials from Nevada and ...

There is a rumor going around that Amtrak is looking at adding a Well-Bath shuttle for BIW employees, since most live between Wells and Portland. With roughly 6,800 workers at Hardings and the shipyard, it makes sense. That's interesting. They've previously spoken about an early morning short turn ...

For those in the Haverhill-Andover area, MassDOT is having an in-person public information meeting to present the current status of the I-495 Andover-Lawrence Bridge Replacement Project. I asked if this will involve the ramps / bridges that are too low to the CSX tracks to allow double-stacks to pas...

One step closer to Supertrain! More seriously, the facts that a) they're including motorcoach transfers between the train and the port, and b) you can check your bags prior to boarding Brightline and they will go directly to your stateroom on the ship, are potent ( at least to me, who just got home ...

To be fair, the only expansions I could see the DE pull off with some sort of decent ridership levels would either be an expansion to Lewiston/Auburn or an expansion to Westbrook like what has been discussed in recent years. With the expansion to L/A, by the time the ball ever gets rolling again CS...

Makes me wonder how many birds Decoster had at his high point in the 70's. At the time I was working for MEC in the area and can remember better than 100 cars of corn in the siding at Leeds Jct at any given time. The Leeds Jct agent-operator told me it mostly came from the thumb of Michigan and was...

Could that rail be headed for the Wells siding? Or is the track already laid there?

Senator Baldacci is keeping it from its final doom ; I imagine he's trying to work out a deal, but I doubt it'll be successful. MaineDOT and NNEPRA both testified against it, and the DOT's position was "We just studied it, it'll cost hundreds of millions to get the line to passenger specs, it's...

Do they still serve the grain elevator in Leeds? Might not be the total end of the branch if the new owners of the Jay mill site ship by rail. Yeah a few cars every trip. The farm got into legal trouble a few years back and the number of chickens at the facility had to be cut and thus so did the in...

OT: It's good to see you around, sir. I hope you are well!

Roux Institute already owns the B&M property and has gone to the Planning Board with an ambitious site plan (and has already started removing some of the more hazardous places on the property), so I think the price has gone up beyond what CN would want to pay. Plus, the Legislature recently kill...

So Brightline is getting $20M subsidy for a Cocoa station and $45M for a Stuart station? Wow. I hope the Cocoa station isn't a plain vanilla design :-D Everyone getting off there gets a free strawberry shake! (Or smoothie, for the healthy folks.) But seriously, I think this will be huge for the cru...

]Because that is *LITERALLY* the biggest selling point for taking the train between 2 particular city pairs. Kinda hard to successfully sell it as “you can conveniently board our trains 5 miles outside the heart of the downtown area”. If the terminal is located right next to a busy and fast light r...