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The Type 8's also have key switches for the center doors on the inside and outside, and the Type 9's also add an interior key switch for the front door. The 7's only have the exterior key for the front door. What station was this at? At a terminal stop like Lake Street or Cleveland Circle, we...

Predictably, it was a Type 8 (#3819) that derailed. Looked like it derailed right on the switch just east of Kenmore on the westbound. The speed over that switch was 6 mi/h pre-shutdown. I was the first C train to take the Kenmore loop, and based off the crowd of confused people, I was either...

Speed limit is 10 mi/h over that crossing, but we don't have to stop.

It's gonna be a long two and a half weeks. The Green Line was in shambles today. I was stationed at Copley station and there were Yankee and Academy people giving incorrect info, trains bunched like there's no tomorrow, packed trains, packed platforms, a broken elevator, a train with a door...

I do wonder how many of my coworkers actually bother to read the signs sometimes.

That is true, the signal protection in the Turnback area is set up that a train at Science Park cannot leave until the train in front of it is, I believe, at the curve right before the North Station platforms. I forget what the signal bounds are headed toward Science Park but I know it's...

The rule is we can now only be only expressed between ADA-accessible stations. This doesn't matter that much on the heavy rail with the one inaccessible stop being Bowdoin, which you couldn't express past no matter how much you try (at least till Red-Blue is done then *every* train will express...

This is definitely true. I'm still quite new (hired at the end of October, revenue service mid-January) at the job but have plenty of experience riding, albeit I have always preferred riding Orange over Green through downtown if there isn't a major headway gap on the Orange. I don't have any...

As an operator, I can attest to this. Ops and vehicles have an outsized role in dragging the Green Line. Also, speeding is definitely a thing; on the heavy rail lines, all runs get faster because the signal system prevents you from speeding. On the Green Line, only the runs of people who follow...

North Station to Government Center is still slow, with only a brief 15 mi/h zone before the 6 you reference; I think Haymarket to Govy is 6 the entire way right now; Govy to Park has just been raised to 20; there are one or two 25's between Boylston and Copley; the switch at Arlington we can do...

When Riverside runs get looped, you get off your run more than an hour early. The time saved for looping Beacon runs at Kenmore is not nearly as significant. In reference to "the attitudes around here", other operators think I'm insane for not liking diversions.

Your reaction is justified -- I feel like a little kid inside a lot of the time too. And the Type 7's in particular have loads of PA problems, especially when they are the lead car (when there is an issue with the announcements a 7 in front, it also occurs in the 8 due to the electrical train...

I was honestly annoyed by the whole situation. Looping Kenmore is cool, but I'm sick of looping Kenmore after the diversion. Additionally, my PA system was glitchy throughout the run and I was unable to make manual announcements (and the automated announcements weren't working) for half of the...

Of course! The reverse is also true, I feel like my transit nerd knowledge helps make me a better operator. I'm new, so there's a lot of old practices I'm not too familiar with - I began training at the end of October and have been on my own for about three weeks so I just began driving on the...

As a (still new) operator, I will point out that things have improved between Govy and Hynes. North Station to Govy not as much, but that stretch in particular is prone to a lot of variability between operators. Additionally, in the runs where I've been in the trailer car, I've had a few...

The Brigham Circle switch is hand throw and the Heath outer loop is rarely used, but also hand throw. We're not allowed to slap switches by coasting through them anymore. I believe Blandford, Reservoir, and East Somerville are the only switches that are outside of the subway but also not at/near...

Green Line operators cannot be moved to the Orange Line for any sort of capacity improvements. Entirely different equipment, entirely different classification, entirely different training. The most they could have us do is help direct customers, but at our own stations, not at Orange Line...

Ahh, all good. I'm surprised it isn't sometime during the summer, to be honest, with the majority of the Harvard and MIT student bodies out and people tending to go away.

Not an expert on when they prefer to schedule diversions, there is no good time for a diversion, but the few days prior to Christmas can be big travel days (not as much as Thanksgiving) and not running trains into South Station seems like a bad idea. That said, the week after Christmas would...

There is one scheduled round-trip in the morning from Cleveland Circle to Medford/Tufts and back; once in a while normal trips can get extended by dispatch to Union or Medford (but more commonly North Station).