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We'll likely never know, yet it could be enlightening if any of the Big G bids were even close to competitive. Were Mellon's billions (which certainly could have been utilized to compete with "the big boys") largely withheld and GTI content to remain a little g regional? Perhaps they banke...

Was this ever a serious endeavor involving expanding into Midwest? And if it was, what went wrong?

What oversite (if any) did the North Cambridge - Mass Ave tower have over the Cutoff?

Was there ever a tower in that area?

Used primarily for buses on northeast side of Alewife station under Rt 2. Was this part of Freight Cutoff?

Some sort of 21st century version of a cow catcher?

The engineers back "in the day" no doubt studied options and deemed constructing the Hoosac Tunnel the best choice. That said, given it's inevitable continuing disintegration, would it be more feasible to at least consider the possibility of constructing a ROW around the mountain which con...

Could CSX's embrace of PSR negatively effect these smaller Maine customers?

"(Dowling said) the sale might not be as beneficial to smaller companies." Pan Am still serves small companies in Maine?

Agreed. Have ceremony in an undisclosed location. Joe and his folks can have a whistle stop celebration when things are much less dicey.

Well, if it's all about Wall Street, then have at it. Kill Nixon's Amtrak and sell the scrap to Carnegie Mellon.

If and when those bus routes are eliminated, look for them to magically reappear as private bus companies under Baker post COVID. And despite the contrarianism of the privatization fundamentalists, Weld and Baker DID dump 1.3 billion of big dig debt on the T. Time to move it to something like the St...

That graphic doesn't tell us how much of the DE's lateness took place on PAR and how much of the DE's lateness took place on the T. Historically most DE delays have happened on the T, not on PAR. The duration of DE delays in T territory compared to PAR's terrain would be germane. A single PAR freig...

Evacuating NYC or other major cities during Covid would significantly slow down the process as well with distancing required and much smaller train capacity. Luckily we had no large WW1 foreign military invasions in US cities during The Plague or no doubt there would have been even more millions kil...

https://pioneerinstitute.org/better_government/working-from-facts-on-the-crisis-at-the-mbta/ Feb 13, 2015 The MBTA's debt comes from three sources — $1.85 billion from spending since the 2000 start of forward funding, $1.65 billion that was transferred to the MBTA under forward funding and was rela...