Fred Langa captured what happens when an Orange Line train derails at the Wellington yard.
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By adamg - 10/30/13 - 7:34 am
The morning starts with a dead train at Wellington on the Orange Line, a dead Green Line trolley somewhere on Huntington or South Huntington and a dead train outbound at Maverick on the Blue Line (say, aren't those the T's newest and freshest subway trains?).
By adamg - 10/16/13 - 4:52 pm
Don't think of them as "severe delays." Think of them as chances to get to know your fellow riders better.
By adamg - 8/27/12 - 6:15 pm
Happened shortly after 5:50 p.m., based on the tweets from people in suddenly sweltering cars sitting on tracks just outside the station. Rescuers were able to get him safely off the tracks in just a few minutes.
"Well/at least a/c back on," Frank Conte reported at 5:57. Andrew Choy praised the driver on his train for keeping riders up to date: "Packed train and no air had potential for freak-outs."
By adamg - 5/20/11 - 9:55 am
MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Chelsea man on charges he not only urinated in the Wellington busway as two women stood there, he kept staring at one of them - until they finally went to find a T inspector.
By adamg - 3/18/11 - 3:28 pm
MBTA Transit Police tweet passengers on an Orange Line train outside Wellington had to be evacuated this afternoon after several track fires broke out near the station.
By adamg - 10/18/10 - 8:59 am
No way are they going to let some trolley line upstage them, nuh uh! That seems as good a reason as any to explain why Orange Line signals - which the T spent several years repairing - are malfunctioning at Wellington this morning, causing all sorts of issues for riders.
By adamg - 12/2/09 - 10:38 am
No doubt there's a reason the signals keep failing on the part of the line that kept getting shut down over several years to repair all the signals.
By adamg - 11/25/09 - 11:08 am
Switching problems at Wellington mean inbound delays on the Orange Line this morning. As Matt Kurkowski tweeted:
Clearly it is time to replace the switch if these "switching problems" ALWAYS happen at Wellington! Love a 1/4 MPH commute.
By adamg - 5/8/09 - 5:27 pm
Your victim might whip out a cell phone and take your picture and then the police will post your photo where everybody can see it as they attempt to hunt you down.
By adamg - 1/8/09 - 9:04 pm
OK, so we know it was pretty bad on the Orange and Green lines this morning. But how awesomely bad was it? You have to read Some Assembly Required's account of the mishegas at Wellington:
By adamg - 4/18/08 - 10:46 am
An Orange Line rider wonders what was up around 9 a.m.:
Yellow taped off parts of the parking lot - tons of cops, a few posted around with binoculars looking at the parking lot. I overheard something about a red car. No one would tell me what was up, but it sure looked like something had the MBTA and police crews out in full force. ...
By adamg - 7/30/06 - 8:54 am
Dinane recounts your typical Orange Line commute involving a train going out of service with, of course, the alleged service train right behind it that eventually moseys into the station looking like the last train out of Paris in "Casablanca," then realizes:
... I'm very lucky to have a life where the most annoying and painful things are almost always public transportation in Boston.
It could be way worse.
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