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Re: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter R

 by lakest101 ¦  Mon Aug 20, 2018 8:10 pm ¦  Forum: New England Railfan ¦  Topic: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter Rail ¦  Replies: 847 ¦  Views: 196325

All "it" means is that they are spending money - which we knew they were doing before.

A non public process is frustrating in the extreme for interested parties.

Re: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter R

 by lakest101 ¦  Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:15 am ¦  Forum: New England Railfan ¦  Topic: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter Rail ¦  Replies: 847 ¦  Views: 196325

Well this is interesting:

https://publicsurplus.com/sms/auction/view?auc=1971015" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

But only one unit?

Re: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter R

 by lakest101 ¦  Sun Feb 04, 2018 7:49 pm ¦  Forum: New England Railfan ¦  Topic: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter Rail ¦  Replies: 847 ¦  Views: 196325

Commonwealth of Mass doesn't think very much of Boston Surface RR's proposed Worcester - Providence commuter rail proposal in the state's 2018 Rail Plan. Attached is snip-it of the Mass Rail plan slide 26 listing Tier 3 long term priorities. I was at the public hearing on the 29th and someone speci...

Re: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter R

 by lakest101 ¦  Thu Aug 17, 2017 5:19 pm ¦  Forum: New England Railfan ¦  Topic: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter Rail ¦  Replies: 847 ¦  Views: 196325

According to a friend of mine that just left PWRR - BSRC had supposedly spent almost a million dollars when GWRR bought PWRR and all out of this kids pocket. He said that their (PWRRs) former CEO and CFO had looked over the books more than once and if it weren't for the sale they'd be moving forward...

Re: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter R

 by lakest101 ¦  Wed Aug 09, 2017 4:55 pm ¦  Forum: New England Railfan ¦  Topic: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter Rail ¦  Replies: 847 ¦  Views: 196325

The way the formula money works its not allowed to be used for operations and only on infrastructure. He will probably have to give the bulk of it to the host railroad(s) but maybe he doesn't care? The appropriation is reupped every 5 years but you can get the money almost forever. The MBTA has been...

Re: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter R

 by lakest101 ¦  Sun Jun 18, 2017 1:11 pm ¦  Forum: New England Railfan ¦  Topic: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter Rail ¦  Replies: 847 ¦  Views: 196325

I have called a couple of times in the past and gotten either the phone answered by or a reply to a message left from a Nicole Done. I haven't called in almost a year however.

Re: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter R

 by lakest101 ¦  Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:26 pm ¦  Forum: New England Railfan ¦  Topic: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter Rail ¦  Replies: 847 ¦  Views: 196325

I just swallowed my tongue! :D

Some tech weenie is probably already getting fired for the server issue haha - and now that (I totally missed it earlier).

Clearly they spend more on lawyers than on MIS!

Re: G&W to acquire P&W

 by lakest101 ¦  Thu Oct 13, 2016 2:44 pm ¦  Forum: Providence and Worcester Railroad ¦  Topic: G&W to acquire P&W ¦  Replies: 139 ¦  Views: 49394

P&W listed Passenger Excursions as 1.3% of their annual revenue last year. GWI in August sent out a stockholder presentation listing P&W revenue at 35M (same). This makes a good case that the Polar Express (the largest excursion and working on its 8th year) at least has the presumption of co...

Re: G&W to acquire P&W

 by lakest101 ¦  Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:55 am ¦  Forum: Providence and Worcester Railroad ¦  Topic: G&W to acquire P&W ¦  Replies: 139 ¦  Views: 49394

From the office I see:

Please excuse us!
We are experiencing technical difficulties during our server upgrade process
Boston Surface Railraod Compnay, Inc.
1 Depot Sq
Woonsocket, RI 02895
(401) 216-8800
[email protected]

Re: G&W to acquire P&W

 by lakest101 ¦  Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:24 am ¦  Forum: Providence and Worcester Railroad ¦  Topic: G&W to acquire P&W ¦  Replies: 139 ¦  Views: 49394

BSRC Website: Looks like its a server problem.

Re: G&W to acquire P&W

 by lakest101 ¦  Wed Oct 12, 2016 8:28 am ¦  Forum: Providence and Worcester Railroad ¦  Topic: G&W to acquire P&W ¦  Replies: 139 ¦  Views: 49394

I just read the American Rocksalt letter is GWI really that bad?

Re: G&W to acquire P&W

 by lakest101 ¦  Wed Oct 12, 2016 7:39 am ¦  Forum: Providence and Worcester Railroad ¦  Topic: G&W to acquire P&W ¦  Replies: 139 ¦  Views: 49394

Actually two unions are objecting outright not just asking for conditions of approval. Basically over failure to communicate up front as well. And looks like ST/PanAM cut a deal at the last minute, probably GWI realizing that there was quite a bit of concern. Union issues seem biggest followed by th...

Re: G&W to acquire P&W

 by lakest101 ¦  Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:57 pm ¦  Forum: Providence and Worcester Railroad ¦  Topic: G&W to acquire P&W ¦  Replies: 139 ¦  Views: 49394

https://www.stb.gov/home.nsf/case?openf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... FD_36064_0

Docket got interesting with multiple parties objecting to the merger.

Re: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter R

 by lakest101 ¦  Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:34 pm ¦  Forum: New England Railfan ¦  Topic: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter Rail ¦  Replies: 847 ¦  Views: 196325

https://www.stb.gov/home.nsf/case?openf ... FD_36064_0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Wow it's a bloodbath! And seems like GWI is ignoring people like BSRC and at least two Unions!

Re: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter R

 by lakest101 ¦  Sat Oct 01, 2016 8:53 pm ¦  Forum: New England Railfan ¦  Topic: Boston Surface Railroad: Worcester-Providence Commuter Rail ¦  Replies: 847 ¦  Views: 196325

Still, a lot of activity on that docket.