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Things fall apart; the Red Line cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
By adamg on Mon, 07/31/2023 - 10:43am
Bri chronicles delays on the Red Line caused by problems on four different trains in the span of just one hour yesterday evening:
- 6:21 p.m. The MBTA reports "propulsion problems" on a train near Park Street ae causing delays towards Alewife.
- 6:50 p.m. The T says a "disabled pilot light" at Quincy Center is jamming up the Braintree Line.
- 7:15 p.m., the T reports more Alewife-bound delays because a "bridge plate" for wheelchairs is refusing to retract.
- 7:20 p.m. The T reports southbound delays due to "a Train with low air, hindering the Train's capability to build enough momentum to propel."
Ed. note: We're going to assume that "propulsion problems" translates to "the train wouldn't move."
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Comments
Cookin' With Gas?
What are they doing down there in Quincy? Cookin trains on a gas stove? Disabled Pilot Light?
Some of the Red Line trains are wicked old
So they probably don't have those more modern electronic burner starters that eliminate the need for pilot lights (let alone induction cook tops!).
OK, I bet it has something to do with the lights that let the driver know it's safe to pull out of the station because all the doors have fully closed (which one assumes the T has re-educated all its drivers to pay attention to following that poor man's death at Broadway).
Pilot Light?
Might be great if they actually had two employees per train like they did for about 110 years. Then you could tell the doors were closed or not.
Propulsion system is the
Propulsion system is the motors and the system that controls the flow of power to the motors, which is solid state on equipment built since the 1990s and mechanical resistors/relays/cams on the older Red Line cars