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On my last trip to DC in April, I haven't seen any new repaited (wrapped) units but when I go there during this summer I hope to catch some new repainted cars

And the train operators have to blow their whistle when crossing a tunnel portal regardless

The former Boston & Albany main and related branch lines in Massachusetts.

Those I think are being purchased by MaSSDOT for potential MBTA Commuter expansion especially to Springfield and further west and the spurs in Eastern Mass for more MBTA Services

At first I didn't like this repainting, but I now like it on the older traincars too.

There was a time back in the 90's when you never saw a 1K series train on the Red line ever. Red line was strictly 2k, 3k and 4k. I remember in the 80s (late '86-early'87, it was the other way around, Red Line was 65% 1K, 34% 3K, 1% 2K when I rode it and lived in the area. The 2Ks were confined mos...

And I got a few 01800s this past week in and out of Braintree

Wow, the 4K fleet is shrinking and so are the 1Ks

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Oh that's great, hopefully this will be a small beginning step towards more reliability and improvement of overall service on Washington Metrorail

"JDC" Modern technology is amazing, of course. LED destination signs? No big deal. But what really fascinates me is how this early technology worked (and I presume worked well). Roll signs that automatically scrolled to display the correct destination? Very cool. The technology did in fac...

Ive liked the 4Ks to lead in the front, they are the same exact age as the MBTA 01800 Bombardier-built Red Line cars, which have had no issues, but I hope they can work things out here with the WMATA 4Ks and restore them to normal function and I also feel they should be able to lead on trains, I don...

While tracks 4 & 6 are the Orange Line subway unofficially

Oh, and what do the numbered signs that look like mileposts measure (e.g "DW 218.32")? The numbers change too quickly to be measuring miles, surely? Those are actually chaining codes, they are in all lines Ive seen on the Braintree Red "BS 932.00", thats in the Braintree area, w...

I actually saw that, it was the Chronicle doing a report on the MBTA Subway featuring Mike Barnicle