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Wouldn't surprise me if they couldn't get all the locomotives on the South Side refueled yesterday/last night and moved what they could from the North Side (presumably a few North Side locomotives have ACSES for this sort of eventuality). With the exception of the leased F40s, all the revenue fleet...

All of EMD's Dash-2 locomotives of the SD series(38, 40, 45, 40T & 45T) rode on a common 68' 10" frame. The "tunnel motors" are nearly 2 feet longer than their brethren with standard radiators, approximately 70' 8". Source: http://utahrails.net/loconotes/SD40-2_T-2.php"...

A lively forum in Mansfield last night on the proposed Providence line schedule changes. There was much opposition to the elimination of most Ruggles stops for Providence trains (but every Stoughton train will stop at Ruggles?) and the elimination of the short-turn train 842 7:26 departure from Man...

It certainly did if it was just in service a few days ago. I think my real point was lost... it seems to make no sense for the T to be scrapping what it had obviously recently deemed the most viable MBBs when there are many others that have been sitting idle for several months. It's not as if there...

Type 7 3684 wrote:NETransit isn't constantly updated to show what's in and out of service.

GP40MC1118 wrote:From what I'm hearing, the 502 will be next...

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despite the extra overhead in them being rostered locomotives. Again, as far as the FRA is concerned, a cab car, whether it's an NPCU, an ex-Metroliner, or otherwise, is a locomotive. That one of them was built from an F40PH means nothing in terms of government regulations. Remember that the Metrol...

Type 7 3684 wrote:Somebody has been hit by a train in Melrose. Trains in the area are stopped.

F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:Northeastern's been hit with all sorts of contractor delays on that building, which is running way past-due on completion. They're the ones holding it up.

I found within the MBTA FY15-19 Capital Plan that the project does indeed appear to be funded (see attached PDF of a cut and paste from the report). Anyone have any idea when construction might begin / finish? With the newly proposed schedules that have all inbound AM Stoughton trains stopping at R...

RailBus63 wrote:Those numbers are for January-March 2015 when everything went to hell in the winter storms. I don't see any more recent reports.

Wonder how the T does in comparison. MBTA makes this information public: http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/Portals/0/docs/infoCenter/performancemanagement/Q3_Report_2015.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; MBTA commuter rail was at 2,227 miles between failures in Q3 of fiscal ...

Head-end View wrote:What do they mean by not securing unattended equipment? In what way should it have been secured?

Immediately implement redundant means of preventing unintended rail car movements, such as wheel chocks or a derail device.

I get everything you just said other than load balancing propulsion. How does having two MP36s not dramatically increase the propulsion power? It would, significantly. The engines would be MU'd together, same as freight engines. There's no "load balancing" going on. Amtrak isn't sending 1...

The double-loco boosts the HEP so the propelling loco can single-task, the HEP loco can single-task, and the whole consist wastes less energy compartmentalizing the relative strain that gets put on the power plant(s). In general, this is incorrect. When two, properly functioning passenger engines a...