MBTA Red Line Trains at Porter Square Station

A short video of MBTA Red Line trains in the Porter Square subway station. This station is very far underground because when they were building the station, the builders needed to get past a thick layer of clay under the street. There is a train of 015/16/ and 01700 series cars headed for Alewife and a train of 01800s headed for Braintree. Thanks for watching, Please subscribe!

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[peterpocasset]

My uncle managed the tunnel construction from Harvard to Alewife.

[ck4049]

@peterpocasset Oh, cool!

[RADIZZLE4000]

Hey do you like the noise of thr tracks the train runs on?? It sonds like a creepy choir singing!

[ck4049]

@RADIZZLE4000 They sound nice, it lets you know when a train is coming and going! The MBTA wants to get new cars to replace the 01500/01600, and maybe the 01700s in 2015+, they will probably have the same truck sounds.

[redsoxguy617]

@ck4049 cause it sounds/looks old

[redsoxguy617]

@ck4049 cause its old

[s7o0a0p]

Is there a difference between the GP40MC and the GP40MEC?

[s7o0a0p]

@ck4049 If I could go back to the late '70s and ride the silver 01500s/01600s, it would be amazing! The old cars can be cool in their own way, like the PCCs on the Mattapan High-Speed Line part of the Red Line. They're from around the mid-'40s but they are always still great to ride!

[ck4049]

@s7o0a0p The 01700s were delivered in the red and white paint, and the 01500s used to be double-ended until the MBTA ruined them in 1986. I still miss the 01400s! I think its about time to start pulling the Pullmans from service and send them to railroad and trolley museums! There is also talk about removing the 01700s from service, if the MBTA gets the obtion to purchase an additional 60 cars when the order goes to the builder in about five years.

[s7o0a0p]

@ck4049 The 01500s/01600s/1700s are good, it's just that when you try to compare an unamusing 41-year old car (not the 01700s, UTDC made then in '87-'89) to a 17-year old car that chneged the way we ride the T, there's no comparison! But to be fair, the 01500s/01600s looked really awesome back when they were mostly unpainted before 1985 (especially compared to the 01400s!) !