Dear Santa-
There were many things you brought us in the recent past: the NewBlue 3400s, more 286K bridges, all the bright and shiny signal structures (most of which have actually gone into service), and the all the attention that is now going to that part of Pan Am closest to you -- District 1. Probably the most impressive thing you brought was the actual start of the Wachusett Extension, not just the extension of the start date for the Extension as had been the case for so many previous years. The new year seems promising, what with the posts of power out of Erie. Santa, that is Erie, Pennsylvania, right? If it's Eerie, Indiana, that show ran for only a year in the early '90s, and that doesn't seem like a good omen.
Overall, you've delivered. Except for that Lionel Hudson I didn't get when I was 9, but that was long enough ago that I've almost overcome that crushing disappointment. What I really would like this year -- besides the Oliver Twist line of "Please, sir, I want more" -- is understanding. I know that as a mere mortal civilian there is so much that I will never understand, but if you could help me lessen one particular deficit in my understanding, I would appreciate it. I still don't understand why water cars coming from Rigby and going to CSX get brought down on POED. POED might actually be able to highball Ayer if there were no Hill Yard business. POED might actually be able to reduce its PO-to-ED transit-time by over an hour if it could highball Ayer. POSE is going through the Hill Yard -- but I'm consuming too many bytes, and that is contrary to this, the season of giving. I've accepted that water cars on POED is practice, and I'd just like to understand why, if only a little bit.
Continued progress for the Freight Main Line, and tidings of comfort and joy to all!
-jaymac
PS - Santa, could you leave the mods something extra in their stockings?
There were many things you brought us in the recent past: the NewBlue 3400s, more 286K bridges, all the bright and shiny signal structures (most of which have actually gone into service), and the all the attention that is now going to that part of Pan Am closest to you -- District 1. Probably the most impressive thing you brought was the actual start of the Wachusett Extension, not just the extension of the start date for the Extension as had been the case for so many previous years. The new year seems promising, what with the posts of power out of Erie. Santa, that is Erie, Pennsylvania, right? If it's Eerie, Indiana, that show ran for only a year in the early '90s, and that doesn't seem like a good omen.
Overall, you've delivered. Except for that Lionel Hudson I didn't get when I was 9, but that was long enough ago that I've almost overcome that crushing disappointment. What I really would like this year -- besides the Oliver Twist line of "Please, sir, I want more" -- is understanding. I know that as a mere mortal civilian there is so much that I will never understand, but if you could help me lessen one particular deficit in my understanding, I would appreciate it. I still don't understand why water cars coming from Rigby and going to CSX get brought down on POED. POED might actually be able to highball Ayer if there were no Hill Yard business. POED might actually be able to reduce its PO-to-ED transit-time by over an hour if it could highball Ayer. POSE is going through the Hill Yard -- but I'm consuming too many bytes, and that is contrary to this, the season of giving. I've accepted that water cars on POED is practice, and I'd just like to understand why, if only a little bit.
Continued progress for the Freight Main Line, and tidings of comfort and joy to all!
-jaymac
PS - Santa, could you leave the mods something extra in their stockings?
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