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Making it sound way too complicated. Here's what ya' do: Saturday morning, the first operators come in for service. They're assigned their equipment and they break a four-car set off of a parked six-car set with the help/supervision of another employee (this employee would help each operator as the...

Here is a question related to the NIMBY question. In one of its last such projects, the Elevated built a new reservation in 1919, and abandoned a former horsecar route a block away. Nane the streets.(The NIMBYs did not object

IIRC, the reason they broke up the trains and ran two and four-car sets was due to the rules regarding door operators...it required more employees to run a six-car set, so during non-peak times they broke the trains up to save on payroll. When the rules changed they stopped the practice. The second...

Eastern Ave? http://i.imgur.com/ngXqdWM.jpg (Boston 1891; Ward Maps) Correct My aunt worked at Long Island Hospital for the better part of a half century, and she used the same wharf to board that ferry. I used to recite the wharves along Atlantic Ave., and my aunt stopped me and said "You for...

Winnissimet Ferry -- Hanover St Wharf to Winnissimet St Wharf North Ferry -- Battery Wharf to Border St South Ferry -- Sargent's Wharf to Lewis St Wharf BRB&L Ferry -- Rowes Wharf to Jeffries Point Wharf Very, very good! The only wrong one is the Boston End of the South Ferry. It was very close...

Nw that we have crossed bridges, let's consider another way across the water. The West End and Elevated operated cars from Roxbury marked "East Boston and Chelsea" and "Depots and Ferries". These cars connected with ferries across the Harbor, connecting at various points with rai...

With the present project south of Lawrence, that would allow Pan Am's vital freights to run around those slow Amtrak passenger trains

The MTA should have kept the old El. It could have been an alternative for the (J) & (Z) trains in case when Jamaica Center is jam packed full of trains. A nice idea but way too expensive to maintain for something that would get very little usage. [Note: In case someone wants to bring up the ol...

Does the MBTA really have enough extra locomotives to start storing GP40MCs? After this past winter I think not, sure lots of HSP46s were delivered but all of the screamers were stored. After the Rail World lease unit's are returned will there be enough spares? 1132's been dead for close to a year,...

Saw 293 at North Station this afternoon; it's paired with 1636 at the moment. Close-ups I took of 293 in the Fitchburg yard on Sunday for all who are interested in seeing its exterior condition. Compared to the others, the HSP-46 head-on has an alien look. "They came from Mars!" The other...

It was my understanding that when the Big Dig was constructed the vertical supports were sunk much further down than required for the vehicle tunnel. It was said this was done to accommodate a possible North-South rail tunnel directly beneath the vehicle tunnels. It would seem, then, that except fo...

There is another way to electrify a major tunnel. Use third rail and dual mode locomotives. Existing locomotives might be converted at relatively low cost. That preserves diesel operation outside the city, and Amtrak could still run its 25000VAC stuff into the present terminal. If we weren't able to...

Tunnel route is fixed--bore out the dug-and-cleanly-filled 4-track gap threaded through the Central Artery, under, and over silver, blue, orange, green. Since it is all dirt put as a placeholder it is about as risk free as tunneling gets. TBMs can turn, BTW. Risk and plenty share of the costs is in...

I've got it -- I think... Warren Bridge across the Charles. A competitor with the North Washington Bridge. Although I don't know of any streetcar tracks ever being on this bridge. Give the man a gold star, dipped in crater grease, of course. The Warren Ave. Bridge over the Charles River was the pri...

Just saw SLC 293 heading inbound to Porter Sq. on the Fitchburg line in West Cambridge, powering one of the morning commute trains. Was struck by the engine color at first...thought it might be an Amtrak paint scheme, but I gather there are some leased locomotives running around the system these da...