By adamg on Mon., 3/17/2025 - 4:16 pm 
Roving UHub commuter Brendan H. filed this visage from an outbound Red Line train hurtling between Kendall and Harvard this afternoon, says it was only the first two or three cars on the superannuated train. Maybe the fluorescent tubes all burned out on the new Kessel Run on the Braintree branch, which train drivers can now do in just 12 parsecs, um, 50 m.p.h.
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The T is an urban amusement park
By cliff
Mon, 03/17/2025 - 6:20pm
And the red line is the best thrill ride.
Maybe some young punk from
By dd808
Mon, 03/17/2025 - 7:11pm
Maybe some young punk from the South Shore spilled his BORG.
It's ok. MBTA rider boot
By Anonymous
Mon, 03/17/2025 - 9:18pm
It's ok. MBTA rider boot camp. This is just an exercise to harden y'all up to prepare for the upcoming life threatening humidity, extreme heat, over crowded, broken AC. death traps when the train breaks down in the tunnel dungeons. No audible voice on intercoms. Yeah. Wwwahhhhhaaahahahaaaaaa!!!!
Nothing new
By Anonymous
Mon, 03/17/2025 - 10:00pm
I’ve been in this Red Line car( or others just like this one ) twice in the last 2 months. The old cars are quite literally falling apart. And they are friggin filthy too. It’s a race against time for the new cars to replace the old cars before a terrible disaster happens.
There are at least 3 sets of new Chinese cars running
By necturus
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 10:51am
... but I saw a broken door on one of those just yesterday. That doesn't bode well.
The Force...
By Olde Andover
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 6:11am
...is strong with this one. I think I see a wookiee lurking in the shadows.
Wow
By John Costello
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 7:56am
I hope everyone made it out alive.
JFC - The trauma of being in low light for 180 seconds must really make the local counseling community salivate.
This happens every once in a while and has been for decades.
The 1500 and 1600 series Red Line cars
By necturus
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 10:49am
...were running in 1975, when I came to Cambridge.
That was fifty years ago.
I remember that the 1500s used to have cabs on both ends, so they could run as single units. That was changed at some point, and they now run in pairs like the 1600s, with a cab only on each end of the pair.
But they're still the same old cars. The instructions in the cabs are probably written in Old High Gallifreyan.
And their machinery
By jmeltzer
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 10:01am
was made by Daleks.
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