by BandA
I suppose you could install full-highs on stations east of Framingham, and if they ever need to restore wide freight 20 years from now (for some reason) they can install gauntlets, or saw off the edge & install flip edges.
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BandA wrote:I suppose you could install full-highs on stations east of Framingham, and if they ever need to restore wide freight 20 years from now (for some reason) they can install gauntlets, or saw off the edge & install flip edges.They won't ever need to, though. Per the set of posts up the page about all the paper legalese that's being waived in 2018 for wide-clearance to Allston, the last Plate F-accessible easements set aside for exactly those 20-50 year considerations (i.e. the Romar siding) are being extinguished. There physically are no abutting sites on the whole of the Worcester Line east of Framingham that can ever establish new customers capable of taking high-and-wides. The property just isn't there within rail access, and most of the historical sites that used to have sidings (like the whole New Balance area, which used to be its own thicket of spurs till the early-90's) have been flat-out rezoned away from industrial. There's $0 in theoretical on-line freight revenue left on the whole route absent any available industrial zoning. The functional extinction that came with Beacon Park's closing is now legally extinct with the extinguishing of the Romar easement and Houghton contract.
and two weekends of commuter rail service to Worcester will be affected, along with Amtrak’s Lake Shore Limited service, with buses replacing trains for portions of each journey (July 29-30 and Aug. 5-6).This would be a great opportunity to take a temporary reroute onto the Grand Junction to North Station via Kendall
After a June 2-4 dry run to test traffic flow, during which the Mass. Pike will be narrowed to two lanes in each direction, the setup for the bridge project begins on July 7, when travel is reduced to three lanes in each direction between the Beacon Street overpass and the Allston interchange.https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/ ... story.html
That drops to two lanes each way from July 28 to Aug. 7
BandA wrote:This would be a great opportunity to take a temporary reroute onto the Grand Junction to North Station via Kendall [/b]No can do. The junction at the northside end is in disarray because of GLX construction track-shifting and the crossing protection needs reliability upgrades throughout before it can carry passengers (slowly).
Boston Landing Station Open
Service to Boston Landing Station on the Worcester line begins on Monday, May 22, 2017.