With respect to this idea, my main thought would be to run a train BOS-ALB-NYP. Of course, with this I have to ask:
1) What would it take to make this link up with the Adirondack (even a schedule-adjusted one)? I know the problems with cross-platform transfers, etc., but making the link workable would seem to be better than not doing so. Part of this has to do with the Boston-Montreal nonsense that got coverage a while back...I'm hard-pressed to see starting a newly-built route from Boston to Montreal without making at least a good case for it being a workable market, and at least on paper the market might work (even if BOS-Montreal is probably a market better suited to an overnight timing just because of the hours involved in transit, and to make the line more workable you'd need an NYP segment to get enough traffic for it).
2) Could this be timed so that someone wanting to go to/from Buffalo would have at least a sane wait time (i.e. no more than 2 hours) before continuing on?
3) Could this be timed to work with the shuttle? Again, I know the issues of cross-platform transfers; that said, this would mainly be for the benefit of central MA residents. This is probably the least important of the questions, if just because only a handful of stations would be affected going either way.
1) What would it take to make this link up with the Adirondack (even a schedule-adjusted one)? I know the problems with cross-platform transfers, etc., but making the link workable would seem to be better than not doing so. Part of this has to do with the Boston-Montreal nonsense that got coverage a while back...I'm hard-pressed to see starting a newly-built route from Boston to Montreal without making at least a good case for it being a workable market, and at least on paper the market might work (even if BOS-Montreal is probably a market better suited to an overnight timing just because of the hours involved in transit, and to make the line more workable you'd need an NYP segment to get enough traffic for it).
2) Could this be timed so that someone wanting to go to/from Buffalo would have at least a sane wait time (i.e. no more than 2 hours) before continuing on?
3) Could this be timed to work with the shuttle? Again, I know the issues of cross-platform transfers; that said, this would mainly be for the benefit of central MA residents. This is probably the least important of the questions, if just because only a handful of stations would be affected going either way.