commuter rail
Person hit, killed by Amtrak train at Ruggles
By adamg - 1/31/12 - 6:43 pmUpdate, 7:25 p.m.: One track was cleared and limited train service through Ruggles resumed.
Commuter-rail and Amtrak service through Ruggles is stopped as transit and fire officials investigate a fatal train-vs-person collision on the inbound side this evening. The T is describing it as a "trespasser strike."
Dan Esdale reports his outbound train to Franklin stopped, then headed back to South Station.
In the other direction, Craig Herman reports an Amtrak train is just sitting at Forest Hills.
Police: Man picked the wrong commuter-rail conductor to mess with
By adamg - 1/25/12 - 2:45 pm
KaneA conductor on the Old Colony Line confronted a man he says stole another rider's wallet - and got him to turn over the woman's wallet and money.
Steven Kane, 34, of Bridgewater, was arrested on a charge of larceny from a person around 5 p.m. yesterday at the Lakeville/Middleboro commuter-rail stop, the MBTA reports. According to the T, a 53-year-old woman awoke from a nap as the train pulled into the station and noticed her purse was open and her wallet gone. A woman sitting behind her pointed to Kane:
Stakeout at South Shore commuter lot works: Couple nabbed as catalytic-converter thieves
By adamg - 1/24/12 - 1:58 pm
MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Fall River couple on charges they stole catalytic converters off cars parking in commuter lots in Hanson and Halifax last night.
Dennis and Tina Fager, 39 and 37, were only charged with the three catalytic converters police found them with, but said they could be responsible for as many as 100 converter grabs on the South Shore.
Police say detectives who had staked out the Hanson commuter-rail parking lot due to a spate of recent converter thefts spotted the couple drive into the lot around 4:15 p.m. yesterday, just after an inbound train departed the station:
Fellow riders rescue man who fell onto commuter-rail tracks at Back Bay
By adamg - 1/13/12 - 10:16 amEdited to reflect fact incident was on commuter rail, not Orange Line.
Jessica Keener reports on an incident shortly before 10 a.m. on the outbound side at Back Bay station:
My husband + 3 others just pulled a blind man who fell down into the train tracks + saved this man's life in Boston today!!!!
Not long after, she tweeted at acting MBTA General Manager Jonathan Davis:
My husband & 3 other men saved a man from Back Bay train tracks. No MBTA people were there. Why not???
She later added:
Back Bay train sta. about 15 people on platform. Blind man was a good 50 yards away toward Clarendon, one man trying to pull blind man out
My husband and 2 other men heard cries of help, sprinted! to man helping blind man, they all pulled together. So inspiring!
Suspicious white powder at Gloucester train station
By adamg - 1/10/12 - 7:21 am
Tom Bruno arrived at the Gloucester commuter-rail stop this morning to find it coated in all this white powder and wonders what in the world it could be.
Service cuts? They'll show you service cuts
By adamg - 1/4/12 - 8:45 amSo far this cold January morning, trains have died on the Red, Blue and Green lines and the Worcester Line is experiencing major delays.
At 8:34 a.m., Tanya K. tweeted:
Two empty, broken down trains we will be pushing in. 1000+ frozen, frustrated people cramming into this one. MBTA Red Line. Good times.
A few minutes later, Candice Springer added:
Thank you, MBTA for stranding me outside on the Wollaston platform in the EFFING cold. Now I have to go all the way back to drive in to work
Lost and found on the Haverhill Line
By adamg - 12/20/11 - 10:39 amA worker at Conover Tuttle Pace downtown came into work this morning rather distraught because she lost her engagment ring on the train into work. But a conductor found the ring and turned it in and now it's back on her finger.
Northeast Corridor vanishes into pit of dispair
By adamg - 12/19/11 - 7:33 pmDowned power lines somewhere in the Canton area mean no Amtrak service between Boston and New York and, of course, massive delays on the Providence/Stoughton Line that have left stranded commuters hoping for the buses the T is promising.
Aging trains react poorly to the cold
By adamg - 12/19/11 - 9:36 amA Worcester Line train died this morning in Natick; commuters on that train and the one behind it, which wound up pushing it into town, were, of course, seriously late.
Some trains into North Station were delayed by the ever popular switch problems. At least one Greenbush train was also late because, well, who knows?
What does commuter rail have against fantasy football?
By adamg - 12/9/11 - 8:55 amA rail-ridin' fantasy-football fan reports via e-mail that the WiFi on his commuter-rail line this morning blocked him from accessing any information about his pastime:
