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deathtopumpkins wrote:It's hardly a secret: http://concordmonitor.com/home/12549757 ... -exercises" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Nice. I did some digging on this. There is also a car supposedly at Deerfield that they loaded - it depends on where they are logging. It's some local company trying out loading and sending them to Maine to get cut. I doubt it will last long ha. Agreed, would not trucking the lumber be faster to Ma...

Dick H wrote:How are the odds that some or all of the "easy to remove" stuff
is already residing in someone's garage or rumpus room?

Reportedly, the work going on around the northwest and southeast abutments of the Rte. 31 UGB is Extension-related and will provide access for bridge work. Also, there is now a banner on the North Leominster garage announcing that it's open. RE: Leominster Garage, supposedly free parking for a whil...

Got a chuckle out of this alert today. I wonder if the legions of displaced commuters can be accommodated elsewhere during construction: The parking lot at Silver Hill Station on Fitchburg/South Acton Line will be closed on Wed May 7 and will reopen Tue May 13 for construction. Affected stops: Silv...

According to this recent news article Norfork Southern crews will be brought in during July to lay the new rail along the Conn River Line (between Greenfield and Springfield). The article says that the NS crews will be working 10-hour days, seven days a week. This should be very interesting to watc...

Surprised they haven't done an archaelogical dig to find ancient items from the OCRR or New Haven era....

The investigation continues...

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The new corporate attitude in America these days is big short term profits vs smaller down the road profits. Got to make those shareholders happy...

Newark America's main business is paper recycling from what I read...

JoeF

The classic phrase "What we have here is a failure to communicate" comes to mind...

JoeF

Doesn't MA have a "railroad trespassing" law ?

J

Westford has always had an axe to grind against PanAm as long as I can remember. The NIMBY mentality is also a factor.


J

There's an article in today's NY Times that starts with this bit of comedy: Jodi Ross, town manager in Westford, Mass., did not expect she would be threatened with arrest after she and her fire chief went onto the railroad tracks to find out why a train carrying liquid petroleum gas derailed on a b...

Because they expect federal funds to pay for replacements. Because they are insolvent. Because their costs are too high. Pigeons, that's a newer problem... Bring in some hawks and falcons, that will cure the pigeon problem. I recall there were some hawks/falcons roosting in downtown Boston a while ...