The State House News Service reports that our more winter-resilient Red Line was felled last week by "residual dew" turning into ice on the tracks south of Boston. Also at fault, the T acknowledges: Superannuated trains that looked up, clutched their chests and wailed "I'm coming, Elizabeth!"
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Totally ready for winter
By hux
Tue, 11/29/2016 - 9:59am
If the T can't even handle an overnight frost, this is going to be a rough winter.
Next capital investment
By Stevil
Tue, 11/29/2016 - 10:56am
Dual industrial strength blow dryers.
Curses! Foiled again!
By Scratchie
Tue, 11/29/2016 - 1:01pm
You can't expect us to deal with MOISTURE, can you??
Thank goodness it is only "residual"
By whyaduck
Tue, 11/29/2016 - 1:14pm
and not "full blown dew" which would take the Red Line down for weeks.
the wrong kind of dew ?
By Simon
Tue, 11/29/2016 - 5:40pm
the MBTA is clearly taking a leaf from the British Rail playbook, when they had trouble dealing with 'the wrong kind of snow' a few years back.
Dew or dew not,
By jmeltzer
Wed, 11/30/2016 - 8:27am
there is no T.
heat
By anon
Wed, 11/30/2016 - 6:03pm
heat
cold
snow
ice
leaves
dew
Is there any sort of conditions that don't cause the T to fall on its face?
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