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FWIW...PAR on the Fitchburg Sec. would be worth the price in popcorn watching the Billerica slop-ops corps try to complete an Ayer-Clinton-Framingham-Clinton-Leominster-Clinton-Ayer reverse-a-thon in one piece. How many times would that train get canned over the course of a single round trip? Twice?...

I would add the MA branch lines to the list ... It wasn't clear to me from the denial that they were being excluded as well. The original report was "B&A along with MA branches". We know the main line supposedly isn't for sale but I thought the omission of the branch lines from the de...

Bombardier made generations of Comets, which fit the bill for single-level equipment, if VIA is willing to accept an old design built from aluminum. They could also use the M-7 as a base, but it would require a moderate redesign to add end vestibules and traps. The MR-90 would probably be the best ...

The only pickup PAR is likely to score is haulage of CSX's Everett Terminal customers. Not a takeover ...just mercenary haulage. CSX can potentially make more money out of its Everett rights than they do right now simply by getting off the Plate B -restricted Grand Junction and throwing some bigger-...

how can there be bidders when a RFP has not been issued yet. Usually before the RFP, there is an RFI - Request for Information - or RFQ - Request for Qualifications. Those serve to find and narrow down a pool of prospective bidders. At the time the RFP is issued on a major project, there is usually...

Either that or Trains Magazine blew it ... The more I'm reading about this the more I think CSX may have actually been considering selling the B&A. Trains blew it on 'what' exactly they'd consider selling. Something B&A-related may be hot to transact, but Class I territorial realignment isn...

Let's not get carried away here. The entrails of the Sununu dynasty don't exactly rival the shadow the Kennedys still cast over Massachusetts politics umpteen generations in. Daddy left office 29 years ago. Yeah, he was a very influential governor...but the long arm of 1987's NHDOT Long-range Plan d...

I am officially grateful that a Sununu has tipped the scales in favor of study. May it herald a new bipartisan era. Until the next election when "The People's Legislature" takes another bipolar mood swing in a complete 180 direction. It's very hard to play a long game with any public serv...

Any idea what the "emergency station repairs" are? Unverified reports on th' Twitters are that it's platform overhang concrete that flunked a routine inspection...but is NOT life-and-limb unstable for today's commute, just needing a priority patch as soon as first feasible. (CAVEAT: Twitt...

Just saw this listed on NETransit At Seaview-prepare for lease to ConnDOT: (12 500s and 4 1500s may be leased long-term to ConnDOT) I'm guessing this is for use in the State of Connecticut rather than the Connecticut River Line Shuttle? Hartford Line startup. And maybe only a protect fleet at that,...

Arlington wrote:Basically: We don't help commuters, but we can't resist crony capitalism.

Wow...frivolous much? Given that there's a whole bunch of maritime regs governing navigability of the river a fixed bridge can't be at the same level without violating a bunch of other laws. So either the suit challenges the maritime regs in tandem as part of its nebulous environmental argument, or ...

FWIW...this doesn't affect G&U's valuation of picking up the Milford Branch from CSX because the Priscoli-era business model has never been about sign-ons of on-line customers (Washington Mills is still the one and only non-yard customer they've got). The big payday for them is direct access to ...

I seriously wonder if we will see more eastern LD trains move to single level - specifically the Cap and the CONO. Related, I wonder if Amtrak has thoughts on expanding their Viewliner fleet further while they’re still in production. Cap Ltd. makes sense because it's the one and only Superliner tra...

According to multiple sources the Coast Starlight's Parlour cars are not going to make it out of this year's maintenance down time, and will be permanently retired. I don't know if they found some unknown mechanical flaw but it seems that previous plans had them remaining in service until Superline...