The other day, one of the new Orange Line trains was parked on the tracks that continue for a bit past Forest Hills surrounded by a flotilla of the older cars, even some of the OG 1200 series. Read more.

The MBTA reports it's replaced all those nasty old, um, new power cables on Orange Line cars that might have started arcing at a moment's notice, so there are now nine trains hurtling along the tracks, or almost the ten that is now considered normal, well, except when something else goes wrong. Read more.

The Globe got a hold of a letter from a T official to the head of the CRRC plant in Springfield that lists more than a dozen critical problems with the way the company is ever so slowly manufacturing new Orange Line and Red Line cars that are arriving here with critical problems - some of which the T says it's been complaining about for years - and accuses the company of "completely abandoning" any concept of quality control.

An Orange Line train died near Stony Brook, and the T reports delays of up to 15 minutes. 15 minutes? One rider on that train snorts:

I’m on the held up train and i can confirm we have been here for 45 min

WFXT reports he only got out after calling 911.

At 7:37 a.m., the MBTA reported delays of up to 15 minutes on the Orange Line due to a train that met an early death at State Street. Read more.

The Boston City Archives posted a couple of photos of the aftermath of a crash at the Forest Hills elevated station on Dec. 4, 1921, when the last car of a train derailed, causing one train car to fall to the street - narrowly missing a streetcar. No deaths or injuries, unlike a derailment on the el at Beech Street and Harrison Avenue seven years later that killed two and injured several more.

Finn took photos of the Orange Line train he was on today because it seemed like not a single door on the entire train had both leaves opened at once, almost as if the T were doing that on purpose.

It's almost like it's become common occurrence with the new trains.

Shortly after 4 p.m., former City Councilor Matt O'Malley was on one of the spiffy new bing-bing-bing Orange Line trains with the fancy computerized displays and those oh-so-nubbly plastic seats, just riding like a cloud, when it pulled into Mass. Ave. - and promptly had to be taken out of service because the doors wouldn't close. Read more.