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How is CTrail pronounced? -See Tee Rail -See Trail Cedar Ale? ;-) As the linguistic gods mercifully set aside Connecticut as an oasis of pronunciational sanity from all the silly regional accents that surround it on all sides, it's pretty much exactly as spelled: "See Tee Rail". Similar t...

Any discussion of raising Downeaster speeds above 79 MPH is a non-starter while PAR owns District #2. Even getting to 79MPH on some portions of the route required an analysis by Amtrak geometry equipment, after PAR stated that 132 LB rail would be required and the Downeaster line had been rebuilt w...

not unless states involved are willing to buy them, non of current Chargers are Amtrak owned . Several items before Chargers on Downeaster. 1. Amtrak would have to buy some and operate them out of Albany 2. Install CSX Cab signaling and ACSES. 3. NNE either buy some or amend their operating agreeme...

Per NETransit, Brookville thus far has been the only bidder to submit a package for the PCC overhaul program. Bid end date hasn't hit yet, so awards won't be announced until later this winter. But we do have one supremely well-qualified streetcar vendor in the mix whose expertise is tailor-made for ...

Depends. Pilot car 3714 is still nowhere to be found since leaving for Alstom in Oct. 2016, and that was supposed to be back within 1 year for testing and the ensuing rubber-stamps to proceed full-bore into the rest of the fleet. Doesn't necessarily mean anything other than they were prioritizing a ...

Would CSX sell CH rights to PAR, knowing that NS might buy PAS/PAR? CSX is far more likely to sell Cedar Hill to G&W because that would allow them to dish off running the New Haven Line locals to P&W and save more costs in shedding those very few local customers in the process. The million-...

ConnDOT will NOT be involved with the Greenfield Ma service,that is MassDOT's problem,recycling some stored MBB coaches and F40's. The Layup yard in Springfield will be a ConnDOT/MassDOT "shared" project/problem. Armory layover is shared CDOT/Amtrak, but primarily MassDOT-funded because C...

1013 was the only Screamer that was still operable when it went into off-roster storage; all 16 other units were broken down in some way, shape, or form as of their last runs and were sent to the dead line without ever being repaired. Some are much more broken than others, and missing parts that wer...

Oh, I am certain G&W will put in a bid for PAR when the Districts 1 & 2 are partitioned from PAS and put up for sale by Billerica. They would probably be required to sell off NECR as an anti-competitive condition of the sale agreement because they'd have too many duplicate Canadian lanes in ...

Plus a real snowplow to replace the Type 3 would be nice. "Snowzilla" seems to be doing the job just fine on the HSL now that 2015 taught them to not slack off on keeping the work roster ready for winter. Used to be that the jet snowblowers were inoperable half the time because of poor ma...

An interesting question came up in the Auto Train thread which to my knowledge has not been answered here regarding the Chargers. Will/Are they able to run with multiple units providing synced HEP? I'm pretty sure existing units don't, and the national options won't because the only major hardware ...

They're in temporarily diminished numbers because some units are out for the rebuild program. Schedules right now weight much more heavily to P40DC's than before when it was an even split, but yes the Geeps are still out there. Particular train assignments are completely random shift-to-shift whethe...

You should concern yourself with those things, because they're quite literally what gets this project from Point A to Point B. Not every recurring proposal is going to demand a full study write-up to get any action, but the nature of this one does because the only extant GJ traffic modeling data is ...

There was a formal STB filing for the ownership change back it first happened, and it was rubber-stamped by the Board without fanfare. Nothing exciting, just a straight-up conferring of title deed to MassDOT for the whole of the main spur to UCRTS, the associated derelict yard trackage, the wye, and...

Walked around Binney St./ GJ crossing yesterday. As might be expected, there is an enormous pile of plowed snow on the GJ. So the GJ is obviously out until it is cleared or melted? Since service is still healing itself back to normal after days of weather-related disruption and service cutbacks, it...