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[OT] most ex-MDC parkways are not built for heavy trucks or even the volume of traffic they get now.
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F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:PAR customer MS Walker, being evicted from the Innerbelt in Somerville because of Green Line Extension construction claiming their building, has taken a relocation deal to S&S and will become a CSX-Readville customer. Not sure when the moving vans are scheduled to take them across town, but it'll be a welcome infusion of new activity in Boston-proper despite Somerville's and PAR's loss.Well its a draw as List Logistics moved their rail services from Readville to Billerica on PAR and MS Walker will be moving from Somerville to Readville on CSX. C
Did we ever hear a music sweeter than the one that thrills, as it floats along the Deerfield, as it echoes o'er the hills.-E. A. Fitch
How we watch that little engine as it stalks across the plain; was there ever music sweeter, was there ever sight completer, than the coming of the train?
strangelyamused wrote:i personally think that the PW coming up to ayer would be a pain in the ass considering it seems like half the time ayer is a cluster____ and becasue of the *usually* very unpredictable sepo and pose. Gardner aint ideal but it kinda seems like PW have more of an easy time going there whenever to do their thing instead of fighting with all the ayer locals and the pig etc.This might not be all that bad of an idea. If the Worcester Main Line were able to handle train movements at a reliable 25 MPH and a re-engineered Hill Yard could have significant benefits to all parties. Racks would not need to be set off at Gardner in the small yard on a hill, instead those could be brought to Ayer and set off there on an interchange track with a run-around track. Train 287 could start out of the Hill Yard with locals handling the Ford Yard, especially with power switches off the Camp track. Freight interchange could remain over the Garner Branch with a run-through train out of Deerfield. A significant change to the Worcester Route would be extending the Greendale siding to New Bond Street to the west and east to Burncoat Street for meets and crew changes with SEPO/POSE.
CN9634 wrote:Why would Pan Am (which is separate from PAS) give up it's only direct connection with CSX? That would be foolish.If you read the text of my post again, where does it say that Pan Am should give up its direct connection with CSX? This is most especially true with my last statement:
CPF363 wrote:A significant change to the Worcester Route would be extending the Greendale siding to New Bond Street to the west and east to Burncoat Street for meets and crew changes with SEPO/POSE.I furthermore stated regarding improvements to the Hill Yard and the Worcester Route:
CPF363 wrote:If the Worcester Main Line were able to handle train movements at a reliable 25 MPH and a re-engineered Hill Yard could have significant benefits to all parties.All parties would be PAR, PAS, P&W and the MBTA.
roberttosh wrote:From what I've been told, East Worcester has the capacity to handle and offload more trains but is running out of parking spaces. If you look at google maps, there does seem to be at least some adjacent property (some with buildings, some without) that they could expand their parking space into, but they'll still always be tight for space at best with any future growth. Not ideal by any means, but off-site parking/storage is always an option too. West Springfield seems to be in a similar predicament and I'm sure the abutters at both locations know they have all the leverage now regarding sale price. It's really too bad they couldn't expand their Westboro footprint lengthwise as that would have given them a much more traditional rectangular shaped layout with excellent highway access to I-495 and the pike.