Commuters were faced with significant delays coming to and from North Station this morning due to a signal problem. Delayed trains left passengers stranded outside North Station for over a half hour.
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Monday, November 25, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
UPDATE: The MBTA's New Locomotive Order
As a follow up to a story we first reported on June 4th Boston To a T can now confirm that the MBTA’s order
for 40 new locomotives is about two months behind schedule.
Last
year the MBTA released a statement stating that the first of 3 pilot
locomotives would be arriving in Boston this month. According to
MBTA spokesperson Joe Pesaturo the first pilot unit will not be shipped
out of the Motive Power Industries plant in Boise, Idaho until the end
of July.
Pesaturo blames the delay on "design modifications and improvements".
Currently,
all 3 pilot units are out of production and are being prepped for
testing. One of them will be sent to GE's Transportation Division
in Erie, Pennsylvania for testing and the other will be sent to the TTCI
test track in Pueblo, Colorado where it will undergo dynamic testing.
When the third unit arrives here in Boston it will undergo acceptance testing and training will take place.
If all goes according to plan we might see the first pilot unit in service by years end.
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