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ITT public transit stories where everything went hilariously wrong
>Be me in 2016
>Friday before Memorial Day
>first run of the year for MBTA's CapeFlyer train from Boston to Hyannis
>pic related, is train at Buzzards Bay
>had finished my final exams for my senior year and had no class that day
>decided I was going to ride that train down to the Cape and back
>get on train at the nearest train station and head into Boston
>eventually get on the train at South Station
>MassDOT had just refurbished an F40PH exclusively for this service
>first revenue trip since its rebuild
>we depart on time
>all is going well until we stop in Quincy about a mile and a half from the first stop
>think to myself that it might be a train up ahead at a station
>this stretch of single track was used by three commuter lines
>25 minutes later, we start moving
>turns out, the locomotive pulling the train had broken down and we were being pushed by a local service as far as Middleboro
>engine got swapped out for a different one once at that station
>rest of the trip is relatively smooth
>arrive in Hyannis at 9:10
>SEVENTY
>MINUTES
>LATE
>realized I would miss my connecting train back home by the time I got back into Boston
>call my mother
>tell her I missed my connection, and to pick me up at a subway stop
>meet her at that stop at about 1:30 in the morning
>she takes me to pick up my car at the station I got on my first train
>got in my car and followed her home
>got back home at around 2:45 in the morning
>had the train not broken down, I would have been home by 1 on the last train outbound on that line
As much as it sucked missing my connection, I would do it again.
>Be me in 2016
>Friday before Memorial Day
>first run of the year for MBTA's CapeFlyer train from Boston to Hyannis
>pic related, is train at Buzzards Bay
>had finished my final exams for my senior year and had no class that day
>decided I was going to ride that train down to the Cape and back
>get on train at the nearest train station and head into Boston
>eventually get on the train at South Station
>MassDOT had just refurbished an F40PH exclusively for this service
>first revenue trip since its rebuild
>we depart on time
>all is going well until we stop in Quincy about a mile and a half from the first stop
>think to myself that it might be a train up ahead at a station
>this stretch of single track was used by three commuter lines
>25 minutes later, we start moving
>turns out, the locomotive pulling the train had broken down and we were being pushed by a local service as far as Middleboro
>engine got swapped out for a different one once at that station
>rest of the trip is relatively smooth
>arrive in Hyannis at 9:10
>SEVENTY
>MINUTES
>LATE
>realized I would miss my connecting train back home by the time I got back into Boston
>call my mother
>tell her I missed my connection, and to pick me up at a subway stop
>meet her at that stop at about 1:30 in the morning
>she takes me to pick up my car at the station I got on my first train
>got in my car and followed her home
>got back home at around 2:45 in the morning
>had the train not broken down, I would have been home by 1 on the last train outbound on that line
As much as it sucked missing my connection, I would do it again.
