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Well some of the good news is that ASA is a supplier to BIW. Mike Smith is a long time rail traffic marketing guy who has done well massaging old traffic and bringing in the new. The cement operation over the past 50 years has had a myriad of owners, shut downs etc and always seems to bounce back. A...

well, it's not like they don't have train service which they do and is rarely used by Springfielders. and then there is all the bus options which are cheaper than the train and just about as fast. and for folks with their own cars there is the Pike and rte 20. Beyond all that is there any real deman...

Perhaps the pareto efficient solution that CSX seeks is for NS/BE to rubber wheel everything going to or from Ayer to Maine and New Hampshire.

Nothing but the best for PASland.

Then they can reconstruct the rail ferry service on the Kennebec that preceded the Carlton Bridge that ran from Bath to Woolwich.

Anybody who claims that the John Olver train station is one of the three Most Beautiful Train Stations in the US is seriously out of touch with reality if not totally deranged.

it worked very well, great views especially of incoming or outgoing trains., restroom, variety of supplies first floor, and office upstairs with variety of means of communication at their disposal. It had everything that you need to have except pizza.

I have often wondered, given the general traffic congestion especially in the summer months between Brunswick, Bath, Woolwich, and Wiscasset, whether a BIW subsidized RDC commuter service between those points in the morning and afternoon would make cents?

i hope they drop off a bit more rip rap before they declare victory.

eventually there is going to have to be a reckoning over what are the parameters for viable truly safe track going to be and who is going to pay for it.. the fra safety standards are merely the minimum safety standards. a railroad track inspector is caught between a rock and a hard place. the tracks...

What washouts?

fastest cheapest -- culvert back fill. slowest but bestest money mostest --bridge

what you're seeing is running rail from the heat causing the track to pop out the sides. cwr will do the same thing with a pi r squared vengeance if not properly installed compounded by insufficient ballast and a lack of anchoring.

The logic for this train was the assumption of the ever choo choo enthusiastic ex state Sen. Hinds, that if you offer the service, the people will surely take advantage of this wonderful passenger train opportunity which will ultimately result in the need for multiple trains in this convoluted corri...

Historically on and adjacent to the cape the natives seem to feel that the railroad is an excellent place to ride bicycles, four wheelers, motorcycles, not to mention a nice place for a walk, and absolutely terrific for fishing.