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For anyone who isn't familiar with this stretch of track in Lincoln, here's a photo taken from the bridge, looking west. The number one track is directly below the camera and the train is on the number two. That's Bakers Bridge in the distance, just west of where the new interlocking of the same na...

Is the conection with CSX in Milford been reinstaled along with the curve? Ted The original connection (RR west of South Cedar St. crossing) was broken back in the early '90's. A new turnout was installed RR east of South Cedar Street, but never connected. It was installed due to a rush order when ...

Not the same work equipment, but I saw some red MOW equipment at the very southerly end of the Southampton Yard tail track a week ago. Is this MBTA, Amtrak, or rented by one of them? It was red, as I recall. Or red and black. Not sure what either piece was used for, either. The red surfacing equipm...

diburning wrote:Just saw a crane with a flat car at South Station. Crane is black and looks beat up. Flat is yellow/orange with reporting marks KRL. Not sure if being used MBTA or Amtrak.

[quote="F-line to Dudley via Park] And the Cross St. overpass is up for replacement within a few years so they're not going to extend the tracks far enough past the station to interfere with the MassHighway's construction staging (probably will be done before Phase 3 ever opens). [/quote] Const...

[quote="F-line to Dudley via Park] ...where the inability of the signal signal to detect the presence of a train caps the max speed at 60... Not sure what you are saying here. Care to illucidate? Since that system is present on large portions of every other northside line except the Newburypor...

Komarovsky wrote:I noticed some electrical work being done within the ROW at the site of the proposed station. Looked likeaybe signal work or something along those lines.

[quote="F-line to Dudley via Park] ...where the inability of the signal signal to detect the presence of a train caps the max speed at 60...[/quote] Not sure what you are saying here. Care to illucidate? Since that system is present on large portions of every other northside line except the New...

Both Shawsheen River bridges have their approach pads poured. Ballast is being spread, but no sign of the new bridge girders at LJ. The little track hoe working E. of Andover may be making the manhole covers go away; I can only see the easternmost of what used to be at least three. The track gang h...

From this excellent set of maps : Excellent? Maybe, if the author got the most basic of things correct, right on the first page. What's the Massachusetts Bay Colony Railroad? :P It's obvious the guy put a lot of work into this. It does seem, however, that the Boston accent tripped him up in a few s...

Couple of things: 1. It's "Black Rock" not "Back Rock" 2. The siding at Titicut is non-controlled, and there are no signals there. 3. The "C" is only used when there is a problem with the cab signal system of some sort. So, as 1050 said, you might have a long wait to se...

Is this the crossover at 495 of which you speak? http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=51356 If there is another, I'll take swing by and grab a pic. No. The picture to which you linked is of CPF-FR (Frost). The new interlocking at JK will be on the Boston side of Lawrence Yard. You can see the ...

Hi. I'm looking for some infos about railways in US - what types of track struktures are used nowadays (ballasted/ballastless), types of rails, railroad ties, rail fastening system, names of the producers. I'm not from US and I don't have no idea about it, so please, help me. Your best bet is to su...

The state is obligated to spiff up the line a bit as a condition of the CSX sale. First was some track/tie/ballast work last year. Second is this second-wave bridge repair. Third is going to be (finally) upgrading all the un-gated crossings with full gates. That'll help immediately with the freight...

The last new signaling project, Hall - AS, was done without as much thought for operation as it could have. Signal D328 at the W end of the westerly Haverhill platform was removed, though the relay case it stood on remains. This would have saved them 10-15 train miles a weekday and 5 minutes on the...