If you check Goggle Earth you can see that they have erected a new signal mast just south of the Yard 10 switch on the main. Is this not for an interlocking being placed at the junction of the Yard 10 lead? It sure looks like it.
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ceo wrote:Fundamentally, rebuilding the Grand Junction for mainline passenger rail is a terrible idea.No it isn’t. It passes right through a densely redeveloped transit area which serves as a destination to a significant chunk of the railroad’s ridership. If fluid traffic flow was a concern we wouldn’t demolishing its supporting infrastructure like the Sullivan, Casey, and McGrath highway overpasses. In an area like Kendall Square and Mass Ave, the automobile should not and will not be the primary mode of transportation. That stretch of the Pike is being anhialated anyways as previously mentioned so cutting in an eastbound leg while that’s already disrupted would not be all that impactful, not that I believe this will happen but it absolutely should.
ceo wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2019 9:03 pm That sounds like the remains of the old Eastern Railroad mainline, which runs down the west side of East Boston along the Chelsea River. There was a plan a few years ago to reactivate it for an ethanol transshipment operation, but it got wisely shot down over environmental concerns.Wisely? The material is still shipped from the area, but now it shares the highway with you. That’s “wise”?
jbvb wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:49 pm I have more vivid memories of the tanker that flipped in Kendall Sq. about 1978; the burning spill didn't quite make it into the subway station, but it did a number on the substation that was next to the then-rotary. I saw the plume of smoke from Central Sq. And though the net doesn't know the date of the Kendall Sq. accident, looking revealed quite a few more recent tanker accidents in eastern MA. I agree with FatNoah.It was May 7, 1977. I was on the MIT campus at the time and ran to the scene after I heard the explosion.
jbvb wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:49 pmRegarding passenger use of the Grand Jct., I disagree with CEO. The RoW exists and isn't abutted by many residences. It should have been used for the Light Rail Urban Ring decades ago, but if it continues in limited use, the former 2-4 track width will be nibbled down to 1 by politically connected developers.I believe that the right-of-way is already down to 1 track in at least one location. And I really mean the right-of-way, not just the fact that there is a single track in there. There is a single MIT building that straddles the right of way on both sides and by the looks of it they left space for only one track under the building. This was done before the MBTA/MassDOT took ownership of the line. Additionally I see no chance that MIT will let heavy rail, even passenger only, operation operate through their campus full time during the day. Light rail probably has better chance, but even that is highly questionable. Recall how the Durham-Orange light rail collapsed because of university opposition. Recall that Princeton has continuously kicked the Dinky further and further out of campus. Universities are no friends of surface rail as that is just too much liability of their students doing something stupid.