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I don't think it's very likely that anyone would deliberately allow a car to remain in service with a door flapping in the breeze. That is an incredibly unsafe condition.

If someone had pulled the emergency lever, how long would it take to reset the train and get it going again AFTER appropriate action such as move all the passengers through the end door to the next car had been completed? Did that car have an intercom so a passenger could talk to the operator witho...

To elaborate on Propulsion Reset. If you have to use this switch, it typically means the propulsion system has tripped out on overload or another major fault. Some kind of over-current, a ground fault, that sort of thing. You need to reset propulsion to get the system to "wake up" again. T...

Seeing as there are no trainlining/MU problems when mixed with other cars, I don't see any reason to keep them in a dedicated set. Once a certain number of cars arrives, it will become impractical to segregate them since it is not absolutely necessary. It would probably not be worth the effort to k...

The press release just says the cars *are* going to be built in MA, not that they *have* to be. That would seem to suggest they already have production contracts in place (or close to being finalized). Except that the RFP has yet to be issued. Pretending that the Buy Massachusetts clause isn't ther...

It's the MBTA's own press release that says the new cars will be built in MA. Who knows who told them to publicize that, but this isn't a case of the Globe mixing something up. There's a message being put forward here.

The gifts were all neatly wrapped
and carefully loaded aboard,
gee, I think there is something
even for Cowford.

Even Southampton Yard could have more tracks. There's an asphalt "road" between every other track. Why?

T officials are calling it a "minor" rear-ending incident. Multiple neck, back, & head injuries reported. All cars said to still be on the rails, and both trains reported as outbound E trains. Resisting the urge to make a snide comment about how two trains traveling in the same direct...

Here is the official press release from Alstom on the contract. http://www.alstom.com/press-centre/2012/106505/alstom-will-modernize-two-massachusetts-bay-transportation-authority-rail-fleets/ If I read this right, Alstom is saying that the Type 7 cars will have a new propulsion system. That means ...

Interesting.

One of the recent pics caught Guildford and MBTA in the same shot.

I wonder what could be their compelling reason to choose this candidate. It seems she is under-powered with her work experience ( I would say unqualified but this is the public sector ) , and has all the makings of being used as a puppet. Isn't there someone within the T that could have been promot...

Oscillations from truck hunting would get worse the faster the speed, yes? And then a derailment would happen, one can say without being too presumptuous? Seems a little bit too presumptuous to me, given that this is a complex, dynamic system we're talking about. I guess we will see what the tests ...

Hasn't there been at least three complete coaches in the state for months now (though not in the T's hands)? It was posted in January that they arrived by barge in New Bedford. Why haven't they been tested and accepted yet? It typically takes months to test and accept the first units of a brand new...

Hello! Thanks for the info. Once I download the manual, (it never came with it), I will be able to find out more of these tools. I am trying to take those night shots of the streaming headlights and signals. No problem. When I've taken those kinds of shots, I've typically used a shutter speed at le...