A Red Line train sighed its last, gave up the ghost, kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, put its other foot in the grave, went the way of all flesh (metal?), cashed in its chips, went pining for the fjords, bit the big one, cashed out and just generally passed over to the other side at Downtown Crossing this morning. A T spokesman says:
Subway personnel had to couple it with another train in order to move it out of the way. This took about 25 minutes.
At 9:17, Alyssa Twomey tweeted:
They just unloaded the Ashmont train at Park to let us on and have it go back to Alewife. Eek, not a great sign.
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Picture says it all
By BostonUrbEx
Fri, 08/23/2013 - 9:54am
Never a good sign: http://instagram.com/p/dW4INpPoZL/#
Is that how cars are normally coupled?
By issacg
Fri, 08/23/2013 - 10:53am
I looked at that picture and thought to myself: this can't be the way that trains are normally coupled - at least one of the workers has a leg right between the two cars. All I could hear was my dad and others from my youth: "never put any part of you body between the boat and the dock."
Eeek.
I think
By BostonUrbEx
Fri, 08/23/2013 - 11:05am
I think they were climbing back up or were climbing down. I doubt the trains were actively in motion while their legs are hanging like this, doesn't seem too safe.
Insensitive
By MattyC
Fri, 08/23/2013 - 9:57am
Can't you be a little more sensitive to the feelings of the dead?
It's Just Resting...
By Christopher
Fri, 08/23/2013 - 10:05am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Lq771TVm4
Pining for the fjords
By adamg
Fri, 08/23/2013 - 10:09am
Thanks, I knew I'd forgotten one!
It's joined the bleedin'
By Finn
Fri, 08/23/2013 - 10:25am
It's joined the bleedin' choir invisible!
4,000 volts
By octr202
Fri, 08/23/2013 - 10:39am
Even putting 4,000 volts through the train wouldn't make it voom?
Shuffled Off...
By Christopher
Fri, 08/23/2013 - 10:58am
...this Mortal Coil, Mate.
Got sent to Belize
By anon
Fri, 08/23/2013 - 11:36am
The latest in involuntary euthanasia.
Riding the MBTA is like riding the little train that could
By anon
Fri, 08/23/2013 - 12:33pm
I THINK I CAN! I THINK I CAN!! C'mon! You can do it! Just 20 more feet and we'll be in the station!!! C'mon!
Brilliant
By anon
Fri, 08/23/2013 - 5:16pm
Few blogs surpass those of Adam G's wit.
I don't think I have ever read a better description of the death of a Red train. This is one of the reasons I read UHub every day!
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