marston@dartvax.UUCP (David Marston) (05/08/86)
About 100 were injured today (5/7) when a Boston-area commuter train hit a standing freight on the Framingham line. There were about 500 total riders on the four-car train. The crash occured just before 9:00 on an inbound run in the Brighton section of Boston, where the tracks are adjacent to the Mass. Pike. Framingham commuter trains are cancelled, but I don't know what the effect was on Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited and Bay State, which also use the tracks. The line is the ex-Boston & Albany line now owned by Conrail. The MBTA commuter train in question was operated by the Boston & Maine under contract. The Big Question: how much experience did the crew have? Were they B&M management taking over from the strikers? .......David Marston (...decvax!dartvax!marston)
johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine) (05/17/86)
According to that source of all truth, the Boston Globe, the Framingham
crash appears unrelated to the strike. The strike isn't against the B&M,
it's against the Maine Central which happens to be owned by the same outfit
that owns the B&M, Guilford Industries. The only reason the B&M trains in
Boston are affected is that they are dispatched from the same yard in
Billerica where MEC trains are dispatched.
The crash occured on the Conrail Boston and Albany line, which is dispatched
quite separately from the B&M and is not on strike. Both trains involved in
the crash were manned by regular union crews. Let's not leap to conclusions.
Any word on whether the MEC strikers are still picketing the CP in Maine?
I know they had to give up picketing Conrail but haven't heard about the CP.
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