sery2831 wrote:It's not that easy to create shuttle trains on the other side. Most crews do not stay on one line, so who is going to run these trains. Or who will run their trips on the other lines? The other thing is fuel. Most of these trains are normally fueled during the day for evening rush hour and wont make it through evening rush hour without seeing BET.
You could get a fuel truck at the two outside points and hire 2 spare crews to run 2 trains between the 3 points. That's probably how I'd want to do it if I were running the show. The part that really stings though is the fact that because one 50 foot section of double track is out the system is now down 8 train sets. That right there is enough to get me to start looking for new solutions.
MBTA3247 wrote:I sure hope they sack whoever was operating that barge.
Yes, and then his family has to worry about getting through the holidays with the lost income, all because some idiot crashed his vessel into the bridge the guy was in charge of.
concordgirl wrote:Someone I work with lives in Salem. She said she waited waited a little over an hour for a train yesterday morning. She was told (at first) that there was a train coming in 10 mins but also that she should wait in the bus since it would be warmer in there. I would've taken that as a hint that I might be waiting a little longer than 10 mins Wink So the train she eventually got on, must have come from BET or something, right?
Either that or another line. The trains that layover at BET go to Lowell in the morning, and one goes to Haverhill. I'm not sure what they have in terms of spares that they can send out to other places. But I'm sure there was no such thing as business as usual that morning anyway so I don't know.