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Apr 7 • 3 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: @ArlingtonVaFD escorted by @PFPAOfficial to the #Pentagon transit center for a report of smoke on the Metro tracks. Early info of an arcing insulator reported on the Yellow Line bridge. No further info. @Metrorailinfo #WMATA @WTOP @WTOPtraffic @ARLnowDOTcom
UPDATE: Yellow Line trains single tracking between L'Enfant & Pentagon City. @ArlingtonVaFD is scaling things back at the Pentagon & @dcfireems doing same on its side. Metro is sending its people to check an insulator on the bridge.
UPDATE: There's always a certain amount of arcing visible on the Charles Fenwick Bridge carrying the Yellow Line over the Potomac. That's inherent in a third rail subway. Normally I can see the bridge, but there's too much fog this morning.

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(1) Throughout my career & especially in recent years I've uncovered confusion & delay by @wmata in notifying area fire departments about rail emergencies. @NTSB found these same issues during Metro's first deadly accident, 40-years-ago today. (more) #wmata
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(1) Amid its current crisis you'd hope Metro is being vigilant on other safety issues. Radio traffic during the smoking Metro Center light fixture yesterday provides doubt. It indicates Metro sent a passenger filled train to do a smoke inspection. And that's not all. (more)
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