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A South Station track fire made the whole Red Line expire
By adamg on Thu, 03/22/2018 - 8:41am
At 7 a.m., the MBTA reported a track fire on the Red Line at South Station was causing major delays - about a half hour after a deceased train at Park Street caused its own set of issues.
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Did they call the Fire Department?
Boston fire was not happy when the red line derailed at Andrew and smoked filled the station and they were never notified.
This is the third MBTA track
This is the third MBTA track fire in three days. Have they stopped cleaning the stations or something?
Wait, when did they start
Wait, when did they start cleaning stations?
Another track fire on the red
Another track fire on the red line now.
How does track catch on fire?
The rails are steel. Are the ties still wooden rather than concrete?
Take a look
Yes, ties are still wooden in that area. Also, there tends to be a lot of trash on the tracks. One stray newspaper and one spark from a third rail or wet equipment underneath a train and there you go.
The third rail
and trash near the third rail equals fire.
3-fer
My commute landed me in middle of things.
The train in front of me was the disabled train, so we were running slow. As we sat in a tunnel waiting my car issued a "wham" and we lost the lights. Lights eventually came back on, but that incicent caused my car/train was taken out of service at Park st. The next train that got us was the 'last' train out of S Station northbound before the fire holdup.
Quite the commute....
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