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This guy from Keolis explains all the delays on Franklin trains
By adamg on Tue, 11/17/2015 - 5:23pm
Tl;dr: Blame the dreaded wheel slip and compressor fault failure for a cascading series of delays on the Franklin Line yesterday morning.
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Portrait aspect in video?
It's hard to take any company seriously when using portrait aspect ratio.
Get it together guys!
Over $2 Billion?!?!?!
Over $2 Billion and you can't have a real camera to shoot this?
I wish there was someone else who can present the video to without the unnecessary technical-babble that Im sure gets the average person lost.
They have a perfectly serviceable camera.
There's nothing wrong with the camera they are using, a cell phone is fine for the job. Vertical video is a user error.
Will Every Failure Now Be Explained In This Fashion?
Commuter Rail Locomotive failures
Credit Rich Murphy for going before the camera and offering a detailed explanation of what occurred. He is not a trained mouthpiece but is a respected Railroad Operations Manager. Bigger questions is; why are so many brand new MBTA locomotives still having catastrophic failures?
His clothes
match the walls! Tie and everything!
Impressive 7 minute narrative
Impressive 7 minute narrative! -no sarcasm intended. I feel bad for these guys who give it their best, only to be frustrated and blamed for breakdowns that are due to unreliable equipment, or circumstances they can't control.
We were told differently
I was scheduled to take the 7:07 am that day. My mobile ALERT said the train would be 10 to 15 minutes late. Of course, they didn't make that deadliine. The next alert was at 7:35 am saying, "experiencing difficulties, we are working on it, hope to clear up soon." With no definite time or solution presented, I bailed and went to another train station.
The default answer is to blame "Amtrak signal problems." Whole train system is a complete embarrassment to the Commonwealth and commerce. We overpay for little to no service, and, on top of that, poor communication. This video proves that they can't communicate effectively.
I don't know.
I take the Franklin line home (6:15pm out of South Station) every night and almost every night it is "delayed" either 5 - 20 minutes so far.
Slippery rail can be rectified and/or lessened as in this example from PA: http://www.septa.org/media/releases/2015/10-22.html?referrer=lansdaleflo...
Compressor problems. Engine problems. Electrical problems. Maintenance problems. Almost every other train car that I try to get on has a door that does not open and/or is stuck. Not enough tracks for the amount of train traffic delays switching of equipment and thus delays.
I get and understand the challenges facing the system and the lack of money, blah, blah, blah. However, I and others are paying well for a service that is sub-par (and it is not even really bad weather yet!). I am tried of excuses.
Last year, during the train system meltdown, Keolis was saying how they were creating this "master plan" which I have never seen publicized. I am happy to read of the 80 million dollar plus invest in the T (new third rails, heaters and the like) but almost every night I receive a text that the Red Line is delayed. I want to believe that all will be well but I am skeptical.