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Before we move onto 2019, there is a point from 2018 that was not posted on here. The FLYER once again increased ridership from the previous year: https://www.capecod.com/newscenter/as-cape-flyer-service-wraps-up-sixth-year-officials-call-season-a-success/" onclick="window.open(this.href)...

One thing for sure about the Steamship Bus connection from Buzzards Bay to Woods Hole is that it hurt ridership and turned people away from the FLYER. Most Saturday mornings the bus would be stuck in traffic from just after exiting the pick up location to the other side of the Bourne Bridge. The vas...

Before we move onto 2019, there is a point from 2018 that was not posted on here. The FLYER once again increased ridership from the previous year: https://www.capecod.com/newscenter/as-cape-flyer-service-wraps-up-sixth-year-officials-call-season-a-success/" onclick="window.open(this.href);...

Not sure how reasonable it would be, but there is a new AC Marriot at Cleveland Circle. It overlooks the D line and the Reservoir car yard.

Hi, there doesn’t seem to be much info on the Union Freight Railroad that ran on the streets of Boston between North and South stations. I am going to order the Railroad that Came out at Night book. -Any remnants of this line or the spurs? What about the connections to the outside world? Was the rai...

One small tweak this year is the café car is in the middle of the set and it has been rotated 180 compared to the previous years.

On the LSL now in Worcester heading to Boston. What explains the need to go past Worcester station and then back in?

There are a number of MARC cars sitting at 30th Street now.

What ever happened to the Citizens for a Sound Environment who fought Amtrak electrification plans in CT in the late ‘90s?

Screamer 1133 is in service leaving South Station right now. Appears to be a Middleborough train, track 10.

Yes. The whole line from Framingham to Mansfield is being upgraded right this second to Class 2 standards. Go spotting the line and you'll see Iowa Pacific-contracted crews out there right now doing track work on the southern end of the line (after doing the north end last year). These upgrades wil...

Nothing?

Geography also plays a role as the Cape FLYER gets to Buzzards Bay and the canal in 1:20 from South Station and a lot of people get off at this stop. A Jersey Flyer would have a much higher percent of riders getting off at Cape May with a longer run time.

On another website I saw pictures of the Rail Fest in 1996 and 1997 in Hyannis. Mix of equipment with some unique consists from the Cape Cod Railroad and MBTA. What were the details of these events? How did they come about and why only two years? Did trains go down to the Cape with passengers?

Assume that test run never happened?