• Track fire bet. Clarendon & Courthouse 3-25-16

  • Discussion related to DC area passenger rail services from Northern Virginia to Baltimore, MD. Includes Light Rail and Baltimore Subway.
Discussion related to DC area passenger rail services from Northern Virginia to Baltimore, MD. Includes Light Rail and Baltimore Subway.

Moderators: mtuandrew, therock, Robert Paniagua

  by JDC
 
Service is suspending on the O/S lines at the moment due to a track fire between Clarendon and Courthouse.
  by JDC
 
Turned out to be just 'debris'. Which speaks to the state of Metro's tunnels' cleanliness.
  by JackRussell
 
srepetsk wrote:Seems to have been a debris fire.
But they just did an inspection of the whole system last week. They couldn't pick up the litter then?
  by srepetsk
 
JackRussell wrote:
srepetsk wrote:Seems to have been a debris fire.
But they just did an inspection of the whole system last week. They couldn't pick up the litter then?
Wednesday's focus was safety-critical issues. Crews during the day found and tagged 300+ other maintenance issues (which would include debris cleanup) that needed fixing.