ya go outside for *one* nice sunny day and something like this happens. Time to catch up... #wmata
Red Line train 122 departing Rhode Island Ave at 3:42p reported a stuck holding brake and brake air pressure problem. It's two hours later. #wmata
The disabled train from between Rhode Island & Brookland is slowly on the move, but single-tracking continues. #wmata Image
The first passenger on the tracks @ Rhode Island was reported @ 4:16pm, approximately 30 minutes after Red Line train 122 became stuck between Rhode Island and Brookland. #wmata
At this point in time #wmata had dropped off a railcar mechanic on the disabled train and they were proceeding with a recovery procedure for the train. The self-evacuation meant the train lost its "all doors closed" indication and halted recovery.
A second passenger that self-evacuated the disabled Red Line train was reported @ 4:34pm, about 15 minutes later (~45min after train became stuck). Both train operator + #wmata railcar mechanic were involved in troubleshooting/recovery which left nobody to keep pax informed.
Two takeaways from this Red Line incident: 1) #wmata continues to struggle w/pax communications; could self-evac have been prevented?
2) the on-scene railcar mechanic w/a plan to self-recover the disabled train was overruled by ROCC/others, which potentially added incident time.
Oh dear. At ~5:40pm the disabled RD/122 train appears to have had few enough brakes engaged that it began to "roll free." The second #wmata railcar mechanic onboard reengaged brakes on the train to stop it from moving unexpectedly.
This ended up being a ~2.5-hour ordeal and ended in the 8-car 7000-series train being pulled from Rhode Island Ave all the way back to Shady Grove Yard. #wmata

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