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Ok, I have pictures of the 7000-series train that I saw at Greenbelt after the Nationals/Yankees game last week. The following link SHOULD work: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=68015e51caca6b72!26622&authkey=!APisiQGDho6ixjA&ithint=folder%2cJPG" onclick="window.open(this.href...

I'll take another stab at getting the pictures available tonight.

I was visiting the DC area for a week. Had tickets to the Nationals/Yankees game Tuesday night. As we had plans all day in DC that day and we were staying in South Laurel MD, we parked at Greenbelt in the morning since that would be an easy, one-seat ride from the ballpark after the game. We got to ...

In 2012 my wife and I were in Germany. We took a paddlewheeler cruise down the Rhine from Koblenz to Rudesheim. While watching the scenery go by, I saw ALL KINDS of traffic going by on the adjacent rail lines. ICE express trains, normal intercity trains, lots of freight trains (I was rather surprise...

The presentation I saw was: http://mta.maryland.gov/sites/default/files/mgip_update_2013-09-13.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Where does Maryland get it's electricity from? Well, in 1990, it was 70% coal and now (as of 2013 anyway) it's 43% (nuclear went from 7% to 35%)...

I looked at some presentations for the future of MARC and it boggles the mind that they're going to replace the electrics on the Penn Line with diesels. Diesels cost more to buy, more to run, perform worse and pollute more. They'll be clogging up the NEC with their reduced start/stop performance... ...

I have a friend coming in on 2160 from NYP to Route 128 and that was cancelled. Fortunately, she seems to be able to be re-ticketed on 2158 leaving NYP an hour earlier (12:03).

I visited the FY a few years back and asked them what it would take for restoration completion and got the figure of "up to $3M" from the guy working there. Seems to me that it would be kinda interesting if you could somehow refurbish the FY as part of the project to extend commuter rail u...

There's another reason for the MBTA to serve NH that no too many people think about. People like me, who work in MA and live in NH pay MA income taxes but there is NOBODY at the State House on Beacon Hill who is accountable to us. It's almost a version of 'free money'. However - given that Nashua wa...

For what it's worth, I'll add that I've been reading about studies being done concerning Exit 36 on US-3. For those that don't know, there is NO southbound off-ramp to get you to the road that dumps you in front of one of the Pheasant Lane Mall entrances. Now they're talking about FINALLY building a...

Speaking for myself, I work at Hanscom AFB so the CR extension doesn't help me. DIRECTLY, that is. I have to leave my house before 5am to beat the traffic. It would be nice to have some flexibility in that and extending the Lowell line could pull some cars off US-3. There must be new management at t...

I live in a town on the NH/MA border - right next to Nashua. I will no longer commute to Boston. Over 10 years ago, US-3 was widened and now it's ALMOST as bad as it used to be. I work in the Bedford/Lexington (MA) area and I have to be in the office by 5:30AM so that I can leave by 3PM to beat the ...

It wasn't railbanked when that part was obliterated by airport expansion. I'm not sure what parts of that line are banked. You could PROBABLY get some kind of commuter rail service from Salem to North Station if you put the money into the ROW with a station somewhere around Rockingham Park - but nor...

Dj, what would you suggest as a good alternative configuration? It's been a long time since I lived in NYC - and even then, it was Staten Island. However - the guy who wrote that article gave some twitter space to a fairly reasonable article in FAVOR of the governor's proposal: https://www.vanshnoo...

I saw a reference to that on The Transpor Politic site: http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2015/01/21/for-laguardia-an-airtrain-that-will-save-almost-no-one-any-time/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Fair use quote: As proposed, the project would do next to nothing to improve...