Ashmont-Mattapan Trolley Line Discussion

[F-line to Dudley via Park]

It's supply chain more than design. Those historic winters of '77 & '78 beat up the fleet real good too, but they were 40 years younger and a majority fleet entrenched at a main shop back then. Riverside, Reservoir, Arborway, and Watertown could clean motors, swap motors, scramble parts to Mattapan Yard and recover fleet uptime vastly quicker because the scale was orders of magnitude different. Today just getting parts and labor to fix a propulsion short could take days per car simply as a function of scarcity. Therefore the needs are totally different on the prevention/preservation side vs. when PCC propulsion maint was more scalable w/ parts supply that was more expendable. Snow prevention in the coming rebuilds addresses that new reality of tiny scale head-on, thankfully.

[CRail]

Or it is another case of not putting the pan covers back on the motor controllers, as was common when the PCCs ran on the Green line.

This is exactly the problem.

[BostonUrbEx]

At least one PCC was trucked from Mattapan to Everett today.

[Type 7 3684]

That car was 3265.

[Bostontoallpoints]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_ ... et_workers

An MBTA trolley driver paid a friend $2,000 to don a Halloween mask and "attack" him while he was on the job, allowing him to fraudulently collect workers' compensation and disability insurance, according to authorities.

Thomas Lucey, 46, is facing charges of insurance fraud and other counts, including misleading police, after the bizarre plot crumbled when police pulled fingerprints off a fake plastic pumpkin the so-called "attacker" left behind and traced it back to Lucey's friend, according to Transit Police and prosecutors.

[Type 7 3684]

3238 has re-entered service recently with parts from 3260 and 3262 according to NETransit.

[typesix]

Another Globe story on the future of the PCCs:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/06/21/future-old-time-mattapan-trolleys-for-debate/4gbdjzZtyuQ6XqWudp0SqJ/story.html