bostontrainguy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 9:07 am
Mr. Norman, it's not us. It's the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that has made this all about passenger rail. They spend money like crazy on such things.....
Mr. Trainguy, I accept that it's the "Commonwealth of Tax..." with big ideas about expanded passenger trains and not the advocacy community.
The thought that they would take your $$$ to build up a rinky dink FRA Class 2 line with a long tunnel (longest East of the Rockies?) prone to cave inns, and with no industries West of the CT River worthy of service, just so they can have a "taking" of the Class 4 B&A from Chessie for passenger trains escapes me.
Don't they have to answer to someone on "that Tuesday in November" every couple of years?
I realize how pro passenger the Commonwealth is. I first became aware during Pat's no notice shutdown of the Old Colony during '56 that got the Kennedys up in arms so it was back in business a day later. I'm sort of astounded how, again surely, the Kennedys got the NH-Boston electrification done, rather than same becoming an "important feed" like NH-Spfld, or Philly-Hbg to the Corridor. And, somehow, I don't think it was "out of the goodness of their heart" that Amtrak restored 448-9. Lake Shore as a BOS-CHI through train with Sleepers - and I even wonder about the "Night Owl" Sleeper as well.