kenjari | Another T accident (Reply)

What is it with the B line this month? This time, a train derailed, hit a utility pole, dislodged some electrical lines and boxes, and caught fire. All this happened at about 1:30 am, just a couple of blocks (one stop down) from my building. Nobody was injured. Luckily, this time, I wasn't right there for any of the excitement. The only immediate effect I experienced was waking up around 2am to smell a horrible burning plastic odor which was coming in through the air conditioning vents. I got up and checked various things to make sure none of our appliances or other electronic gear had caught on fire, and then verified that the smell was coming from the outside by briefly cracking a window. The stink lasted for quite a while and kept me awake for a bit. And by this morning, the MBTA had still not cleared stuff up - the burnt train car was still there along with a bunch of maintenance vehicles and a ton of T police and other workers. So I walked to a nearby D line stop to get in to work.