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By adamg - 12/7/22 - 12:07 pm

Circles Of Hell In Dante’s Inferno Translated Into Orange Line Train Wait Times.

8th Circle: Fraud

It is all a lie. This is just a hole in the ground where a train used to be when Lechmere was a store.

By adamg - 12/5/22 - 11:47 am
Forest Hill elevated crash

The Boston City Archives posted a couple of photos of the aftermath of a crash at the Forest Hills elevated station on Dec. 4, 1921, when the last car of a train derailed, causing one train car to fall to the street - narrowly missing a streetcar. No deaths or injuries, unlike a derailment on the el at Beech Street and Harrison Avenue seven years later that killed two and injured several more.

By adamg - 11/27/22 - 11:31 am

WBZ reports an 18-year-old man was stabbed at the Franklin Street entrance to the Downtown Crossing T stop around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, and that police are looking for an even younger suspect.

By adamg - 11/21/22 - 2:51 pm
Busted doors on an Orange Line train

Finn took photos of the Orange Line train he was on today because it seemed like not a single door on the entire train had both leaves opened at once, almost as if the T were doing that on purpose.

It's almost like it's become common occurrence with the new trains.

By adamg - 11/17/22 - 4:00 pm

Matthew Petersen shows us the half a door on Orange Line car 1464 that just refuses to open. Orange Line aficionados know, without even looking at the photo that a 1400-series car is one of the brand-spanking-new Orange Line cars, the ones that were going to take us away into transit heaven and float like a cloud, and have fully functioning doors.

By adamg - 11/16/22 - 9:17 pm

Shortly after 4 p.m., former City Councilor Matt O'Malley was on one of the spiffy new bing-bing-bing Orange Line trains with the fancy computerized displays and those oh-so-nubbly plastic seats, just riding like a cloud, when it pulled into Mass. Ave. - and promptly had to be taken out of service because the doors wouldn't close. Read more.

By adamg - 11/14/22 - 10:20 pm

Transit Police report arresting three teens - 14, 15 and 16 - they say were particularly vicious in attacking a cop during a melee at Forest Hills station that began when officers told roughly 50 teens to move along rather than continuing to loiter in the station lobby. Read more.

By adamg - 10/9/22 - 4:54 pm

Eric Moskowitz highlights the work of photographer Jack Lueders-Booth, who captured scenes in a bygone era of life along the long gone Orange Line el. More photos from his collection.

By adamg - 10/5/22 - 9:19 am

WBZ reports the reason the Orange Line remains particularly slow after being shut down for a month in part to make it go faster is because the T found extra track work to do between Assembly and North Station, which it's doing at night, at least, and for which it has no current scheduled end date (plus, of course, 5 to 7 days to let the new tracks settle). Read more.

By adamg - 9/25/22 - 7:56 pm
Guy in a chair on the Orange Line

Bring your own, as Professional Printer Wrangler noticed this evening. She reports the guy did NOT roll down the car like a half-empty energy-drink bottle, but only because "he was hanging onto the pole like his life depended on it."

By adamg - 9/23/22 - 9:17 am

Transit Police report two men who exchanged punches to the head after an argument over the loud music one was playing on an Orange Line car will both be summonsed into court on assault charges. Read more.

By adamg - 9/22/22 - 9:55 am
Old Orange Lne car leaves Wellington

Was that Taps playing softly in the distance? Photo by MBTA.

WBZ reports on and photographs the first of the old Orange Line trains to be trucked out of the Wellington Yards for the trip to a Middleboro scrapping facility owned by Costello Dismantling Co., whose logo consists of a preying mantis.
Read more.

By adamg - 9/20/22 - 5:22 pm
Everybody ordered off train

Shortly before 6, everybody was ordered off this outbound train at North Station. Photo by Jed Hresko.

Update: At 5:43, the T said a train with "a door problem" at Downtown Crossing meant 20-minute delays northbound. They did not say if it was the same train that had problems at Forest Hills.

The MBTA reports northbound delays of ten minutes on the Orange Line northbound because they had to fix "a mechanical problem" on a train at Forest Hills. Read more.

By adamg - 9/20/22 - 9:21 am

If yesterday was the Day of Shiny Floors (and smiling ambassadors and Dunkin' gift cards) on the Orange Line, today is Return to the Old Days Day: Read more.

By adamg - 9/19/22 - 10:09 am
Shiny floor at Haymarket

Along with all the track and signal work, the T said it would spend the Month of No Orange Line to spiff up the stations. Alex DiPrato reports that, sure, his first morning ride on the Orange Line was wicked slow (although the T had cautioned the new tracks need a week or so to settle), but at least the floors were gleaming at Haymarket today. Read more.

By adamg - 9/17/22 - 5:10 pm

So stop being so cynical, no? Well, OK, there is one teeny little thing: Orange Line rides at first might actually be slower to let the redone tracks in the old slow zones settle. But you'll be sitting in brand new hard-plastic seats with the nubbly surfaces, since most of the cars, like 75% of them, will be the new bing-bingy new 'uns.

By adamg - 9/10/22 - 11:54 am
Blocked in MBTA shuttle

Marco shows us the scene this morning at Washington and School streets in Downtown Crossing, where one of those MBTA shuttle buses found itself blocked in and unable to make the turn because of an MBTA truck parked right at the intersection.

By adamg - 9/6/22 - 3:22 pm
Baker on Orange Line tracks

Baker reports he was glad to, adds: "As of today, 59% of the planned diversion work has been completed, including signal upgrades, track and rail replacement."

Ed. note: We're going to assume he means he walked the tracks (without a helmet) at Community College, unless the T is also using the Orange Line timeout to add a Community Center stop.

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