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crash575 wrote:Looks like they are using a jet blower to clear the Mattapan Line.There is video too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvvo5ONi3KQ
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crash575 wrote:Looks like they are using a jet blower to clear the Mattapan Line.I wonder if the T could rent a Type 3 plow from Seashore!
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SM89 wrote:do the PCC cars not perform well in the snow? why did they shut down the mattapan line, but not the green line?As was mentioned, the air intakes on the PCC's take in snowflakes and cause the circuits inside to short out, or something along those lines.
BostonUrbEx wrote:This is a 3 page thread. It's moisture getting into the motors make the cars die. As said below...SM89 wrote:do the PCC cars not perform well in the snow? why did they shut down the mattapan line, but not the green line?As was mentioned, the air intakes on the PCC's take in snowflakes and cause the circuits inside to short out, or something along those lines.
MBTA3247 wrote:The problem is falling snow getting sucked into the motor blowers and causing shorts when it melts, not accumulation on the tracks.AND for renting a Type 3. It has been done. One Type 3 had returned a few winters ago. We no longer maintain a Type 3 plow with a pantograph, so you will more than likely never see one return.
sery2831 wrote:We no longer maintain a Type 3 plow with a pantograph, so you will more than likely never see one return.Doesn't matter for the High Speed Line.
