The rolling entomological exhibit 'neath the streets of Boston

By adamg on Thu, 11/12/2015 - 10:50pm

Kyle Geiste discovers the Orange Line car that features a display of "thousands of dead mosquitoes and flies" embedded in glass between the passenger area and the driver's compartment.

Amelia McJerk reports she's been seeing that display for years now:

I'm almost sentimental about it at this point.

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Someday, far in the future

By anon on Thu, 11/12/2015 - 11:44pm.

a kindly grandpa/mad scientist will recover one of those mosquitoes, reverse-engineer its DNA, and create a clone of a long-forgotton species of Bostonian.

Jurassic Park Street via the Winter Street Concourse.

I love how the T is all like

By Biggie_Robs on Fri, 11/13/2015 - 12:10am.

I love how the T is all like "Hey could you let us know which train that is?"

How about you get your employees to look at the trains they service?

Gross

By bostonkid_316 on Fri, 11/13/2015 - 7:24am.

That window has definitely been like that for years. I see it every now and then, and I actually think there may be more than one. I also wonder how they all got trapped in there in the first place.

I was on the Red Line the

By anon on Fri, 11/13/2015 - 8:16am.

I was on the Red Line the other day and peered into the black abyss between the two pieces of glass separated by about 10-12" at the rear end of a car. Do not do this.

seen it too

By Ishmael Jones on Fri, 11/13/2015 - 10:03am.

Sat next to it a few times, also you get to hear the communications between MBTA drivers and the control center.

The little tram that used to cross between Wellington Station and the parking garage would be, in the summers, colonized by spiders that would make their webs on the outside of the trams and catch the bugs as the trams moved back and forth. Because of this easy fishing, they grew huge. If you got on a crowded tram and didn't like spiders, you better hope you weren't smushed against the window looking out.

I was happy to recently take the walkway that replaced the tram and see that the spiders hadn't stopped making webs on the outside. They just don't get to move back and forth.

This isn't a problem on the red line

By anon on Sat, 11/14/2015 - 6:56am.

Because vandals have kicked out all the old windows and the T has had to replace them