Boston Trackless Trolley Farewell Fantrip

Feb 20, 2022 | | 2 Comments

On February 19, 2022, the Boston Street Railway Association hosted a fantrip celebrating Boston’s 86-year trackless trolley history. It traversed the entire Cambridge trackless trolley system (including along the 72, which hasn’t seen electrified revenue service in almost 10 years) using a 2004 Neoplan AN440LF trackless trolley, a 2004 Neoplan DMA-460LF dual-mode articulated vehicle, and a 1995 Nova Bus RTS diesel bus. I traveled from Philly to Boston on an overnight Flixbus to experience the historic occasion. Boston’s trackless trolleys will continue to run in service on the 71 and 73 until they are retired from service in mid-March 2022.

Newark – Least Used Amtrak Station in Delaware

Oct 20, 2021 | , | 0 Comments

In a state with just two Amtrak stations, the least used one gets short shrift.

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Spreadsheet of all the stations: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NUEtNQcWxXEkkn2qKYM5ndzpEH38d48x4HAnQhkdPeU/edit?usp=sharing

Great Race to Franklin Park – Part 2

Sep 26, 2021 | | 0 Comments

Franklin Park is situated between the Orange Line, Fairmount Line, Red Line, and a host of local bus routes on the border of Roxbury, Dorchester, and Jamaica Plain. What’s the fastest public transit route from South Station? Miles, Jordan, Nathan, Jarek, Jules, and more than 20 others split up onto 11 teams to find out, but not without their fair share of challenges and drama along the way.

If you’re interested in the RTS seen in this video, check out the East Coast Coalition of Bus Preservationists! They preserve a diverse fleet of buses from around the country in the Boston area. Find them on their website at http://www.eccobus.org/ or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/EccoBus

We’d like to give a huge thank you to all of the participants! Cliche as it might sound, we truly couldn’t have done it without you. Below is a full list of racers along with where you can find them outside of this video:

Edward Orde
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EdwardOrde
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NU_ITE

Snowqube Bentro
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JasonBentrosnowqube
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/snowqube

Quentin Smith

Aaron Lu
Blog: https://tramreview.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/aquaticpotato71

Jarek Alexander

Tyler Pacheco

Petru Sofio
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PetruSofio
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AmtrakProductions

Jacklyn Thibodeau
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/busandrail
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaSP58p4HH5RMInM2PnXTsQ

Omriqui Thomas

Donny Noah
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trains_of_boston/

Conor O’Leary
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClY7DqBd1cofwmjWSKWbUnQ
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conorontherails

Emily Crandall Fleischmann

Adam David Parise

Jared Cohen
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_spacepeanut_
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_spacepeanut_

Meir K
Blog: https://tramreview.com

Ilias Benmokrane
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ill91
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Real_Ill91

Damian Cooper
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mtrain887
Twitter: https://twitter.com/1334Damian

Jules Wang
Website: https://jules.wang
Discord: @PointJules#2308

Symmetry Alexander

Josh Coughlin

Jacob Deck

Nathan Muz

Jordan King

Miles Taylor

We’d also like to thank the following:

Uillia O’Connell – for hosting, and helping to organize the event

John Arico – Additional camerawork

Sam Hegg – Additional camerawork, editing