October 9, 2020 Red Line Train Pull-Apart Event Summary

On Friday, October 9, 2020 at about 12:18 PM EDT, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Glenmont bound Red Line Train 108 (T108) consisting of eight 6000 series cars (cars in direction of travel L6074-6075+6079-6078+6113-6112+6067-6066T) experienced an pull apart1 between the 2nd and 3rd cars, cars 6075 and 6079, in which the coupler assembly onContinueContinue reading “October 9, 2020 Red Line Train Pull-Apart Event Summary”

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 Service Events

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 Support Our OperationsContinueContinue reading “Tuesday, January 14, 2020 Service Events”

Preliminary Report: 8/12/18 – Unscheduled Train Departure from Vienna

On Sunday, August 12, 2018, there was an unscheduled Orange Line train departure from Vienna en route to Foggy Bottom at 2:21PM EST. The following is a summary of events related to that departure. At 1:47PM, Vienna terminal operations instructed a supervisor to bring a gap train stored in the tail tracks at Vienna toContinueContinue reading “Preliminary Report: 8/12/18 – Unscheduled Train Departure from Vienna”