by cden4
I already posted this on the LJ MBTA community, but I haven't had any responses. I was hoping people on here could help, since everyone seems much more technically savvy here with regards to the T.
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I was on the B line inbound around 6:45 PM on 3/11/05 and we were almost to Kenmore. The train stopped in the tunnel as it always does. This time though, it started, went about 2 inches (or so it seemed) and then stopped. It did this probably 5 or 10 times. Then the driver then cycled something air-related, like a wooosh sound, a few times and tried it again. We then went a few inches 5 times or so again. Then he shut of the train (except for HVAC and lights) and turned it back on again. He did this twice. Eventually we got going and made it to Kenmore. I also noticed at this point that the car we were attached to (I was in car #2) was gone.
We got about halfway to Hynes and when we stopped in the tunnel this whole process repeated again. It didn't happen again after that, but we were going really slow for the rest of the trip. At each of the next stops -- Hynes, Copley, Arlington, and Boylston -- there were a lot of people waiting for the train. Then, at Park Street, we pulled up on the other track, and the driver announced that this train was being rerouted. So I hopped out and another train pulled up very quickly on the track that goes through. There were a lot of people waiting there too, and a lot of people from our train hopped on it as well.
Any idea what happened here? Anyone experience anything like this before? I think I was on a type 7 train, although it had been upgraded with the LED signs inside and the automatic announcements. Actually, I think it was the one with the Garnier Fructise wrap around it. The first car, which we had been disconnected from, was a type 8.
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I was on the B line inbound around 6:45 PM on 3/11/05 and we were almost to Kenmore. The train stopped in the tunnel as it always does. This time though, it started, went about 2 inches (or so it seemed) and then stopped. It did this probably 5 or 10 times. Then the driver then cycled something air-related, like a wooosh sound, a few times and tried it again. We then went a few inches 5 times or so again. Then he shut of the train (except for HVAC and lights) and turned it back on again. He did this twice. Eventually we got going and made it to Kenmore. I also noticed at this point that the car we were attached to (I was in car #2) was gone.
We got about halfway to Hynes and when we stopped in the tunnel this whole process repeated again. It didn't happen again after that, but we were going really slow for the rest of the trip. At each of the next stops -- Hynes, Copley, Arlington, and Boylston -- there were a lot of people waiting for the train. Then, at Park Street, we pulled up on the other track, and the driver announced that this train was being rerouted. So I hopped out and another train pulled up very quickly on the track that goes through. There were a lot of people waiting there too, and a lot of people from our train hopped on it as well.
Any idea what happened here? Anyone experience anything like this before? I think I was on a type 7 train, although it had been upgraded with the LED signs inside and the automatic announcements. Actually, I think it was the one with the Garnier Fructise wrap around it. The first car, which we had been disconnected from, was a type 8.
, you're not the only one who has seen the seats on the 0600s and 01200s fill up with a puddle of water. I've seen those Orange/Blue Line cars' seats get puddled up like that, and it has to be some sort of defect up in the ceiling/roof area of those cars. And even the Red Line 01800s have the same leaking problem too, especially down in the floor fron the gritts on the ceiling, it hasn't been pretty either.