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https://whdh.com/news/mbta-looking-to-phase-out-single-decker-commuter-rail-cars/

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/passenger-trips-to-take-longer-in-ontario-and-quebec-after-cn-rule-change-via-1.7077491

Boston media 10/2/24

I need to take a ride to Braintree :) Hard to believe but the old Blue Birds in 1963 reached 55 mph between South Station and Broadway. They still have 60 Pullman-Standard cars ( 10 trains ) in service that are 55 years old.

I got caught in the aftermath trying to go to the Bruins game from Union Sq The T has improved except the flagship Red Line which only has 16 CRRC cars in revenue service. October 1 was a bad day

Is Megabus completely shut down? Peter Pan has taken over all service from Boston to DC https://w42st.com/post/megabus-detours-to-bankruptcy-while-peter-pan-comes-to-the-rescue/...

The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority says the site along St. John Street would save passengers time.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2024/08/08/greyhound-bus-union-station-flixbus

My late Uncle Gus was a conductor for 40 years for New York Central but was assigned to the Boston and Albany division. He went to his deathbed saying that NYC should have bought the New Haven simply to control commuter rail into GCT

Train 25 was Pullman only Reading a 1955 timetable it appears you could get on at Croton-Harmon and Albany and that was it. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/April_1955_New_York_Central_timetable.pdf

Some background on when CBS used Grand Central as their TV hub - They moved to West 57th St in 1964 https://www.provideocoalition.com/cbs-and-new-yorks-grand-central-terminal/

I remember Omnibus as a child https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_(American_TV_program) In 1955 CBS used Grand Central as its master control for TV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Broadcast_Center#Early_history To do a live interview with the engineer as the train was moving somewhere...

This is pure gold for rail historians.

https://whdh.com/news/amtrak-train-hits-tree-in-haverhill-knocked-out-of-service/

81 years old and still working https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/81-year-old-boston-grandmother-is-worlds-oldest-train-driver-guinness-world-records-says/JVROTVDOKRHHNIS7MNXOFL5XCY/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/michigan-central-station-reopening-1.7220826 I certainly think a Chicago/Toronto corridor can be viable in the future. Could Toledo/Detroit be restored? In 1969 I took an overnight train from Michigan Central to Chicago (Union) and wound up getting a...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/michigan-central-station-reopening-1.7220826 I think the key is restoring the rail link with Windsor

The MBTA winds up paying Cubic more than what New York City paid to convert. This can be traced back to the MBTA giving low bidder Scheidt & Bachmann the original contract 20 years ago.