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One of those mornings on the Red Line

By adamg on Fri, 08/23/2013 - 9:51am

A Red Line train sighed its last, gave up the ghost, kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, put its other foot in the grave, went the way of all flesh (metal?), cashed in its chips, went pining for the fjords, bit the big one, cashed out and just generally passed over to the other side at Downtown Crossing this morning. A T spokesman says:

Subway personnel had to couple it with another train in order to move it out of the way. This took about 25 minutes.

At 9:17, Alyssa Twomey tweeted:

They just unloaded the Ashmont train at Park to let us on and have it go back to Alewife. Eek, not a great sign.

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By BostonUrbEx on Fri, 08/23/2013 - 9:54am.

Never a good sign: http://instagram.com/p/dW4INpPoZL/#

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By issacg on Fri, 08/23/2013 - 10:53am.

I looked at that picture and thought to myself: this can't be the way that trains are normally coupled - at least one of the workers has a leg right between the two cars. All I could hear was my dad and others from my youth: "never put any part of you body between the boat and the dock."

Eeek.

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By BostonUrbEx on Fri, 08/23/2013 - 11:05am.

I think they were climbing back up or were climbing down. I doubt the trains were actively in motion while their legs are hanging like this, doesn't seem too safe.

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By MattyC on Fri, 08/23/2013 - 9:57am.

Can't you be a little more sensitive to the feelings of the dead?

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By Christopher on Fri, 08/23/2013 - 10:05am.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Lq771TVm4

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By adamg on Fri, 08/23/2013 - 10:09am.

Thanks, I knew I'd forgotten one!

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By Finn on Fri, 08/23/2013 - 10:25am.

It's joined the bleedin' choir invisible!

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By octr202 on Fri, 08/23/2013 - 10:39am.

Even putting 4,000 volts through the train wouldn't make it voom?

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By Christopher on Fri, 08/23/2013 - 10:58am.

...this Mortal Coil, Mate.

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By anon on Fri, 08/23/2013 - 11:36am.

The latest in involuntary euthanasia.

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By anon on Fri, 08/23/2013 - 12:33pm.

I THINK I CAN! I THINK I CAN!! C'mon! You can do it! Just 20 more feet and we'll be in the station!!! C'mon!

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By anon on Fri, 08/23/2013 - 5:16pm.

Few blogs surpass those of Adam G's wit.

I don't think I have ever read a better description of the death of a Red train. This is one of the reasons I read UHub every day!

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