Train 425, the 4:40 "Superexpress" out of North Station encountered a slight delay last night 12/27, when a mentally disturbed individual got in a heated argument with the conductor. Not sure what the argument was about, but the guy almost assaulted the conductor, who showed great restraint. 425's crew radioed to Boston West and was instructed to stop at the outbound platform in Waltham where the individual was escorted off by a pair of Waltham's finest. In all my years of riding the commuter rail, I've never seen anything like that.
Later in the evening of 12/27, the outer reaches of the Fitchburg Line were a mess with some signal issues around CPF-WL, and the appearance of a Pan Am "Grain Train", which had to be split into two sections and (I think) POED all competing for the same Track Space. The D3 dispatcher had his work cut out for him last night.
-Mike