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if amtraks long view plan is to have a viable inland plan b to a flooded nec in rhode island, they will need full electrification from nh to springfield to boston.

for those of us in the western part of the commonwealth, who have been thirsting for some east west passenger service to connect with north station learning that the scenic track in falmouth which has had zillions spent on it's rehabilitation will be now torn up for the benefit of the spandex crowd,...

csx people which ostensibly are mostly ex par folks have been doing quite a bit of mow/cs work on pas especially after csx and then fra geometry reviews. lots of surfacing hours west of east deerfield.

mass dot also owns east deerfield yard

In the good old days, say 1975, if a railroad or transit company wanted to acquire relay rail they could call an LB Foster or an A&K type rail supplier and order anything they wanted to keep their rail inventory down. There were at least 35 different varieties of rail to be had. So if you wanted...

In retrospect, running trains through towns named Grafton, was risky business on Christmas eve this year.

i cant find any derailment in grafton mass on xmas eve but cn supposedly had a pretty big im train derailment on 12/24 in grafton ontario.

In the short term, with all the bad publicity the t has had for its current services, I believe that current auto commuters despie the jammed local highways, will want to wait and watch the new service develop before they jump on board. in the long term, if service turns out to be reliably good, pri...

when folks initially saw the ip colors and the pullman porters and the prospect for a really spic and span money is no object operation it was hard to believe that ip was anything but the most exciting thing to happen in us passenger rail for years. for the cynics, looking at their proposals if you ...

well that's a lot better than 20-39 but it certainly is not substantiation for expansion of the service or even an annual repeat.

Out of genuine possibly morbid curiosity, wondering how the Flyer flew to and from Pittsfield this year. Would love to know the actual ridership statistics either bearing witness to a hugely successful venture or possibly an expensive politically expedient experiment performed to satisfy west mass c...

l suppose that choosing an auto industry exec has more long term promise than picking someone from the undertaker world.

Has Csx already sold their 50% of Pas??

well csx may have some problems moving the trash but i'll bet they're way ahead of the curve when it comes to invoicing their trash shippers.

now as i piece the two passenger trains together and seeing as G&W and NS are all in the pas family these days, could it be that that the ns geometry train is in fact being led by a G&W family locomotive?