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By adamg - 9/12/12 - 8:26 am

Brian Cummings reports via e-mail on the horsey set in Weston this morning:

Well, this is a first. Around 7:00 or so, going inbound to Boston saw a beautiful chestnut horse running toward Boston alongside the tracks, followed by a woman running behind, followed by a panting MBTA cop. Between Silver Hill and Hastings. Train delayed for 10-15 minutes. All three none the worse for wear.

At least we weren't robbed by outlaws.

MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo reports train 406 was delayed 11 minutes as Weston and Lincoln police corraled the wayward equine.

By adamg - 9/11/12 - 6:55 am

Davis looks at a coach in Korea. Photo via MBTA.Davis looks at unfinished coach in Korea. Photo via MBTA.

By roadman - 9/7/12 - 8:46 pm

another power problem on the Riverside Line - with buses replacing streetcars between Reservoir and Riverside. Here's the official alert:

Alternate shuttle bus service will replace Green D-Branch trains between Reservoir and Riverside Station due to a power problem. Please expect significant delays and seek alternate transportation where available. Â 9/7/2012 7:42 PM

Note that the MBTA has posted this exact same alert about the wire problem at least four times since 6:20. They obviously don't understand that people don't need to have their phones on to get messages.

By adamg - 9/6/12 - 8:32 am

The Herald reports an explosion in the rat population on Savin Hill, possibly caused by construction along the Red Line.

By adamg - 9/5/12 - 6:18 pm

The MBTA says a police investigation into a report that some guy took a photo up the skirt of a woman on an escalator at South Station found the man was not a T employee.

"An MBTA employee has been ruled out by detectives investigating this report," MBTA spokesman Joshua Robin said. "There is still an investigation ongoing."

By adamg - 9/4/12 - 7:07 pm

Tania Reppucci tweets:

Guy on the Red Line used a box cutter to cut and peel a lemon, then ate the lemon. The train smells nice though.

By adamg - 9/4/12 - 9:35 am

Shana Sissel, who took this photo, wonders:

Does anyone know the significance of the black hand over the red line at Park Street Station?

By adamg - 9/1/12 - 11:27 am
Tremont Street in 1897

Today's the 115th anniversary of the opening of the oldest subway in North America - the tunnel between Boylston and Park Street. The scene above, from the Library of Congress, shows Tremont Street in the months leading up to the tunnel opening, when above-ground trolleys still ran down Tremont, even during construction of the tunnel.

By adamg - 8/29/12 - 4:57 pm

Johnson (l) and Bacai.Johnson (l) and Bacai.UPDATE: The MBTA reports detectives tonight found and arrested Bacai.

By adamg - 8/29/12 - 8:31 am

Jose SolerMBTA Transit Police report two minors trying to procure some mid-day booze at a Forest Hills liquor store wound up in a fight with a guy who jabbed himself with a needle, pulled out some blood and then told them they'd better back off because he has AIDS.

Police say Jose Soler, 47, of Hyde Park, originally agreed, shortly after 1 p.m. yesterday, to buy some liquor for a pair of underagers at the Forest Hills Liquor Mart across from the T stop. They gave him $25 and agreed to let him keep $5 as his fee. But he returned to the station without liquor, handed the teens only $3 and then walked into the station's lower busway. And that's when things got ugly:

By adamg - 8/28/12 - 10:08 am

Lashus (l) and Akiba.Lashus (l) and Akiba.UPDATE: Third suspect arrested.

MBTA Transit Police report arresting two of four people they say ended an argument early Morning on an Orange Line platform at Downtown Crossing by beating and kicking their solitary opponent.

Karen Akiba, 22 of Cambridge, and Bryon Lashus, 32 of Watertown, will be arraigned today in Boston Municipal Court on charges of assault and battery on a disabled person and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon following their arrests for an incident around 12:30 a.m. on the southbound Orange Line platform.

Police say the victim got into an argument with a woman and that her three companions attacked him, leaving him with "lacerations and swelling to his facial and torso areas."

Police add they continue to hunt additional suspects.

Innocent, etc.

By adamg - 8/28/12 - 7:54 am

It's heartwarming how the little choo-choos help each other out. When the 6:33 into Boston belched its last and died in Sharon, the train behind it agreed to help out and push it all the way into Boston. Good train, good! Of course, that does mean 30-minute delays, but at least Providence Line riders get to have a nice warm feeling, unlike their counterparts on the Newburyport/Rockport line, facing lengthy delays due to boring signal problems, and riders on the Fitchburg Line, facing long delays because, well, it's the Fitchburg Line.

By adamg - 8/27/12 - 6:15 pm

Happened shortly after 5:50 p.m., based on the tweets from people in suddenly sweltering cars sitting on tracks just outside the station. Rescuers were able to get him safely off the tracks in just a few minutes.

"Well/at least a/c back on," Frank Conte reported at 5:57. Andrew Choy praised the driver on his train for keeping riders up to date: "Packed train and no air had potential for freak-outs."

By adamg - 8/27/12 - 3:54 pm

The Globe reports police are looking for two men and two women who beat up a man on the southbound Orange Line platform shortly after midnight, then boarded a train towards Forest Hills.

By adamg - 8/27/12 - 12:13 pm

The MBTA reports a potential bioterror germ attack alert system starts getting tested after the last train of the night on Wednesday at Davis, Porter and Harvard stations on the Red Line.

By adamg - 8/27/12 - 9:00 am

A dead trolley at Reservoir, dead trains at Kendall and somewhere on the Ashmont line, signal and track problems on the Fitchburg Line and, oh, yeah, a freight-train derailment on the Haverhill line meant all sorts of fun for commuters this morning.

By adamg - 8/24/12 - 9:11 am

KouroyenAn Everett man was arrested last night after he allegedly beat and kicked an MBTA bus driver in a fit of anger over being left behind at Wonderland station, MBTA Transit Police say.

According to a police report, the driver had pulled his 455 bus into the Lynn commuter-rail station in Central Square last night when Paul Kouroyen got on, asked if he were the driver who had left him at Wonderland station and when the driver said yes, brutally attacked him:

By adamg - 8/23/12 - 10:12 am

Seems a guy decided the commuter-rail tracks near Back Bay was a great place to take a nap yesterday.

Ed. note: No, he was not wearing an oversized Fedora and a blue suit.

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