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Mitsubishi Electric (MELCO) is the subcontractor for the propulsion system in the cars

Bad rail condition, until it is replaced, 10 mph speed limit from Community College to a few 100 feet into the portal.

Right now, the 3rd from last eastbound train from Heath St. (the 12:47 inbound trip) is the Lechmere connector train at Park St. It is followed by an inbound trip at 12:55 that offers no connections, and then a later deadhead move (the equipment from last westbound Heath St.) that carries no...

Car was 3620, hot grids put out with an extinguisher. Car has a leaky roof though (nothing to do with the incident), so it might be high on the list to be the next to go to Hornell. Cars with leaky roofs are the first priority to send, followed by cars in the orignal paint.

Because of the stainless-steel content, they will have a higher scrap value than the #1 Red, #2 Red, and Orange Line cars. Unless there is a change in policy, they won't keep any for work cars. It was decided a few years ago that its not worth retaining retired work cars as motive power to push...

There won't be any reduction in the 71 when the 73 goes back to trackless, there has been a very generous surplus of trackless trolleys during the 73 shut-down, which did allow the carhouse at North Cambridge to do a mechnical overhaul of the 28 coach fleet. They will still run a few morning...

The derailment at Lake St. (Boston College) last night was caused by a broken rail. It was also a motor truck, not the center truck, on the Type 8 that came off. The shut down later in the day on the B line was also a broken rail at Packards Corner, but luckily not a second derailment in less...

The large box that sits on the large indentation at the B-end of the carbody on the Blue Line cars and future Red and Orange Line cars is indeed the self-contained HVAC unit.

All of the stainless steel shells will be built in China, the plant in Springfield will install the components to the shells to make a complete car. The first pilot trains will be built 100% in China including installation of components. Those are sections of the shells that are produced to...

The 10 remaining PCC cars at Mattapan are from one large order for 225 cars delivered in 1944-46. The order had propulsion systems split between two suppliers (Westinghouse and GE), and brake systems split between cars equipped with tread-brakes and cars with drum brakes. 34 cars of these 225...

Back in January 2016, the Control Board was shown the rail and bus fleet plan. http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/About_the_T/Board_Meetings/FINAL%20Fleet%20Plan%20Board%20Presentation%20-%20Updated%20Version%20RevF-Final.pdf The overview chart on page 11 shows the desire is to begin phasing...

The 24 Type 9s will be low floor. They however are not being designed with control systems that can operate with a Type 7 or Type 8, although they will be able to mechincally couple to be able to push or tow. The desire was for the Type 9s to have a more advanced control system which would not...

You need one low-floor car per train. The Type 7s will not be able to run with The Type 9s and future Type 10s, the Type 8s are the only low-floor cars they can trainline ith. When the Type 8s are phased out, the Type 7s will have to go with them.

Type 7 coupler was not ripped off, in the first photo you can see the cars are still coupled and neither coupler is on the ground. 3680 was uncoupled and moved under its own power down to Reservoir carhouse before 3837 was placed fully back on the rail.

Wasn't that minor a change if somebody in a wheelchair had to get from the proposed new stop to the elevator at Broadway station.

Just in case he wants another source, here is the MBTA Board vote with MMA which identifies "32 dual-mode" buses as the buses in the Maine contract: https://www.massdot.state.ma.us/AboutUs/BoardofDirectors/BoardAgendasandReports/June182014.aspx And here is the MBTA control board presentation...

The 44 new New Flyer 60-foot hybrid artics on order are to replace the 44 CNG Neoplan artics. Half will be painted yellow for Route 39 and the other half Silver to replace the fleet on the SL4/SL5 Washington St. service. The contract with New Flyer does have an option to buy 46 more hybrids that...

Re: T construction news Note that this contract will build a new pair of elevators between the northbound Red Line and northbound Orange Line using space in the old Filenes Burnham Building that was cleared for the MBTA as part of the reconstruction of that building. It will also include...

They also state that "fixed constraints: including "civil design (curves etc) " is one of the factors limiting capacity to 20 tph. The curve at Harvard is one of the major constraints. CBTC is a waste if you can't get more than 20 tph through because of the civil constraints. Reducing dwell time...

The base headway in the peak is 13 trains per hour (9 min headway each on Ashmont and Braintree, 4.5 in the trunk). They do however schedule 2 extra Braintree trains in the peak of the peak and send trains out of Alewife at the rate of 20 trains per hour but only for about 20 minutes. The signal...