In 2012, MassDOT closed on a $100 million deal with freight company CSX to purchase the right of way on the rails between Worcester and Boston. Then Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray said the deal was made with expanded passenger rail service to Springfield in mind.The purchase of the right of way was a major step, but the Patrick administration went further in early 2013 when they proposed, and eventually passed, an $362.4 million plan to upgrade the tracks along the Inland Route. Waltrip, advertised himself as "The Louisiana Pulpiteer" and "The Fiery Southerner."From his first tent revivals for six weeks in the summer of 1937 to the chapel's grand opening in 1938, Waltrip was able to raise pledges of $70,000 almost a $1 million in today's buying power to build the modernistic, Art Deco inspired chapel.Its "sole purpose," according to an advertisement in November 1937 was "soul winning and the establishment of Christians in fundamental Gospel truths."A PREACHER'S SONWaltrip was no stranger to the business of saving souls.He was the oldest of three children born to Reuben Waltrip, a preacher, and his wife, Lila, in Freestone County, in east Texas, according to 1910 Federal Census records.At 15, he lost both his father and younger sister in the 1918 influenza pandemic, according to Texas death records. burberry There will be no going back. burberry This separation will not be quick and clean: it will take microsurgery to disentangle three centuries of close interdependence, after which we will have to deal with three bitter burberry neighbours," she wrote.Other celebrities publicly to oppose independence include singer David burberry Bowie who appealed to Scotland to stay with the United Kingdom at an awards ceremony in February and Scottish comedian Billy Connolly who said it was a time to stay together.But burberry other big Scottish names are backing independence including James Bond actor Sean Connery, a long term nationalist who said independence was too good an opportunity to miss.One major Scottish celebrity, tennis player Andy Murray, has refused to take sides in the debate, although he admitted this week that he did not like Scottish leader Alex Salmond holding up Scotland blue and white flag, the Saltire, behind Prime Minister David Cameron when he won Wimbledon last year.Opinion polls currently suggest Scots are reluctant to break away although support for independence has risen this year.A TNS poll on Wednesday showed 42 percent of voters opposed independence while 30 percent were in favour and 28 percent undecided.