Search

Nothing yet. The radio system is just operating as business as usual.

B&M Cobble dispatcher channel isn't a train dispatcher nor B&M. The cobble hill AAR 039/097 channel is used by the commuter rail radio room for use by the engineering department for various functions. The output side of that channel which is AAR 039 (160.695 MHz) is used by engineering force...

West Cambridge Maintenace Facility (WCMF) is where various pieces of MoW equipment is repaired and stored. It's main shops for the engineering department work equipment fleet. There are smaller shops that are satellite shop to WCMF and they're in Abington, Readville, Worcester, Fitchburg and Salem.

Those light are for train approach warning. They operate as an overlay on the signal system as a non vital unit. The system basically looks at the approach track circuits from the NHML and the wildcat. The Worcester line has a few stations with them too.

1028 arrived in Middleboro this morning.

They've been trying to keep those rebuilds up north until they get a few miles under them. I believe every unit that comes back is going to Rochester for final prep work and then up north. At least that's I've observed from since these units have been coming back.

The last report I heard from earlier today was the 1050 was running around on the Northside with the 1060 as a double header.

The unit is in Middleboro along the secondary, over by the layover facility.

Yes the broadcast are still being made. The voice you're hearing is the speaker on the radio itself as the text to speech board reads off the data coming from the network.

They came in this morning and took out the 2 cars out and brought in 1 car.

The Kierstead cable was a way to connect a Geep and Budds together thus allowing the budd to control the geep. The cable used certain notches of the geep when controlled from the budd. It used something like notches 2,4,5 and 7, when they were shoving in the geep would kick the cars unless they had ...

The reason why dynamic brakes would not have been ordered on the Mbta's f40's was due to track conditions on the b&m side of the world. The b&m had blanked out existing units dynamic brake systems( I.e. The gp7's and 9's). Dynamic brakes are hard on track structures and tended to spread rail...

The MBTA wasn't the only one with F40's without dynamic's, Go transit had a small fleet of them in the late 70's.

Those "telegraph" wires are the old 550v signal power and some of the old comm lines. Back before all the work in the area,the signal huts were on the same side of the tracks as the pole line. As far as I know the pole line is supposed to be eventually taken down, I don't think that's happ...

The ASA signs inside and on the outside of the coaches are generated by the PTIS system DR600 unit, which is in every cab coach. Since the rotems are the first to have the outside signs, there were numerous problem with the way the PTIS unit interfaced with the ASA sign units. Over the last few mont...