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This month's award for the best Orange Line derailment goes to ...

Update, Wednesday morning: MassDOT reports the car is still there and so the Orange Line is causing delays on 495.

NBC Boston reports a trailer on which a new Orange Line car sat disconnected from its tractor tonight on I-495 in Chelmsford.

We're not even going to ask why it was in Chelmsford.

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The NBC story seems to say that the trailer holding the train got separated from the tractor, not that the train fell off the trailer.

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In fairness, I think the train car stayed on the trailer, but the trailer connection to the truck cab failed somehow. That photo looks like the train was still on the trailer.

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Thanks, story corrected. Still keeping the headline, because, in for a penny, in for a pound (I mean, technically, the car didn't derail since it wasn't on rails to begin with).

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de-tractoring then?

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It would have to be because that’s the best route for oversized loads from Springfield to Wellington Yard.

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You are correct.

The truck could have continued right into Boston (or even Weston) but due to tight clearances between Weston and downtown Boston, it's easier to reroute these heavy-load tractor trailers onto I-495 as the clearances and curves off the turnpike are much less tighter; also, where the Wellington shops are located in Medford, access to the shops from I-93 is closer from the southbound direction than the north.

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Could have been a Storrowin'

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because the Storrowing of an Orange Line train would cause UHub to die and go to Heaven.

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There's still ten months and change to go, but this might be Comment Of The Year.

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Rushing in to deliver an Orange Line car ahead of an upcoming winter storm (French Toast alert level 5 slices), the truck driver is distracted by a turkey which is crossing the highway fleeing from a flasher, and makes a wrong turn onto a bike lane, nearly hitting an alert UHub reader on a bicycle, who gets video of the truck trying to correct its course but then storrowing into the Longfellow Bridge, taking out the Red Line. The Orange Line car is knocked off its trailer and rolls straight into a Dunkies.

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A new Orange Line car was being delivered last night.

I thought CRRC just gave up making them last summer.

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At least they are trying to deliver new stock.

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Who knows what is actually under the tarp?

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If there was a charismatic bird perched on the affected car, and it was then photographed by Mary Ellen, most readers of this site would immediately be raptured to wherever passes for the Uhub afterlife. Which would be, uh, maybe Pleasant Cafe?

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