A train died at JFK/UMass as rush hour started this morning, causing delays and, as JohnMcBoston shows us, trains with no more room for additional passengers like him.
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JFK/UMass
By adamg - 3/1/18 - 8:10 am
The MBTA reports 10-15 minute delays (whoa, no more "moderate" and "severe," but specific times? Yay) on the Red Line due to "a disabled train with a power problem at JFK/UMass."
By adamg - 2/7/18 - 8:05 pm
The MBTA reports "minor" residual delays on the Red Line caused by a train that gave up the ghost near JFK/UMass.
By adamg - 1/26/18 - 8:43 am
A Red Line train breathed its last at JFK/UMass, but the MBTA reports the train has gone to that repair shed in the sky and now everything's back to normal.
By adamg - 1/12/18 - 7:46 pm
The T is running buses between Ashmont and JFK/UMass because of some sort of power problem. Like maybe a bit of fire at Ashmont station.
By adamg - 1/3/18 - 9:46 am
The MBTA reports it's removed the carcass of the train that died at JFK/UMass and caused the dreaded "severe" delays earlier this morning.
By adamg - 12/30/17 - 9:54 am
The MBTA reports everything's back to normal on the Orange Line, where a train was taken out back and shot at Forest Hills, and on the Red Line, where a train left this mortal coil at JFK/UMass.
By adamg - 11/3/17 - 9:08 am
"Just another day on the Red Line," Kate O'Toole reports as she watches the hordes at JFK/UMass after everybody was ordered off an inbound train that had just decided life to give up the ghost.
By adamg - 10/25/17 - 2:36 pm
The MBTA says it's disposed of the remains of a dead train at JFK/UMass and so the Red Line should be back to what passes for normal nowadays.
By adamg - 9/21/17 - 12:10 pm
The train has since been taken to the Red Line equivalent of a glue factory and service on the Ashmont branch is supposed to be OK now, the MBTA reports.
By adamg - 8/19/17 - 9:02 am
Transit Police have released a photo of a guy they want for an assault-and-battery charge for an incident on a Red Line train at JFK/UMass around 7:15 p.m. on Aug. 9.
According to a police spokesman: Read more.
By adamg - 6/13/17 - 4:08 pm
"Moderate" delays on the Red Line due to signal bollixation at JFK/UMass, about 24 hours after similar problems yesterday, the MBTA reports.
By adamg - 6/12/17 - 3:53 pm
And the hits just keep on coming: "Moderate" delays on the Red Line, the MBTA reports.
By adamg - 4/5/17 - 10:23 pm
UPDATE, Thursday, 10 a.m.
Greenbush train 091 (which left South Station around 8:25 p.m.), hit somebody on the tracks just south of Savin Hill.
Transit Police report that the "trespasser," a 24-year-old man, was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries.
At 10:17 p.m., M.McG reported she and other passengers were still on the train, still not moving.
By adamg - 3/25/17 - 6:12 pm
The T is reporting "moderate" delays on the Red Line due to what Nicoczar reports was a small fire on the tracks at JFK/UMass.
By adamg - 1/23/17 - 4:34 pm
Just in time for the evening rush hour, the T reports "moderate" delays towards Alewife on the Braintree side due to some sort of track problem at JFK/UMass.
By adamg - 1/6/17 - 9:12 am
The T had to hold a train from Braintree at JFK/UMass so Transit Police could remove a woman who refused to put out her cigarette, filling her car with the smell of smoke.
By adamg - 12/16/16 - 8:38 am
The T's reporting "moderate" delays on the Red Line due to a train near JFK/UMass that suffered an attack of permanent frostbite.
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