Summary of events that occur during our active monitoring of rail operations on Metro. Majority of listed events fail to impact service to the level where they require a social media post from us, however they do show what’s occurring on the system. Page is refreshed every 20 minutes during active monitoring
7:35A Monitoring Start
7:46A Largo Train 418 instructed to skip Morgan Blvd
7:49A Car 3060 on Silver Train 607 experiencing propulsion surges
7:50A Shady Grove Train 116 reported possible bodily fluids in car 7144
8:04A Intermittent Radio outages system-wide, restored around 8:25A
8:53A Monitoring Ended
4:06P New Carrollton Train 906 held at Eastern Market for MTPD response for disorderly juveniles
4:10P Huntington Train 310 reports sick passenger in car 7058 while crossing Potomac River bridge – pax report no pulse 4:12 – No signs of life 4:13 –
4:15P Huntington Train 310 Offloaded at Pentagon
4:15P Greenbelt Train 305 rerouted to Arlington Cemetery
4:18P OPS3 instructs Supervisor at L’Enfant Plaza to instruct passengers to go downstairs and use Blue line trains to reach VA – No announcement from OPS2
4:19P OPS2 announces single tracking via inbound Track 1 at Arlington Cemetery & Pentagon
4:22P OPS1 announces single tracking from Mt. Vernon Sq <> Pentagon City on Yellow Line
4:22P Arlington FD EMS on site at Train 310
4:23P Report of bodily fluids on car 3223 on Largo Train 614 – car isolated 4:36P
4:23P Gap Train 735 placed in service at National Airport towards Huntington – departs 4:34
4:25P Train Control Tech 2378 preparing to enter trackbed at inbound switches at L’Enfant Plaza to remove clamps from switch 1 to allow single tracking – clamps removed 4:28P
4:28P Glenmont Train 121 reports motor overload on car 6163, remove at Glenmont
4:31P Train Control Techs 2378 instructed to move to Mt. Vernon Sq
4:32P Huntington Train 311 instructed to leave Archives and hold short of switch 1 at L’Enfant Plaza
4:34P Arlington EMS departed Pentagon at 4:30, awaiting ME
4:37P Franconia Train 410 rerouted to Huntington
4:39P L’Enfant Plaza switch 1 indicating out of alignment, Train Control Techs instructed to manually align switch 1 for a crossover movement from the outbound to inbound track for Train 311- instructed to lock the switch in a normal traffic position at 4:42P – Train 311 instructed to proceed to L’Enfant Plaza platform 2 at 4:46 after holding 14 mins
Break in monitoring from 4:52P <> 5:46P
5:50P Car 7480 isolated on Greenbelt Train 302 for bodily fluids
6:12P Restricted Speed for trains servicing Judiciary Square for passenger with medical concerns
8:08P Greenbelt Train 509 request EMS for unresponsive passenger at Southern Av on car 7554 – Single tracking via Outbound Track 2 at Southern Av & Naylor Rd
8:24P PGFD EMS on site at Southern Av
8:35P Non Revenue Train 710 (from Pentagon incident) cleared to depart National Airport pocket track enroute to Greenbelt Yard
8:37P Passenger removed from 7554 by EMS – car 7554 isolated
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