Seasons

I seem to be more aware of seasons and the general passage of time this year than in the past. Maybe I've gotten sufficiently divorced from the academic year that September isn't just "start of classes". And I'm being a little more conscious of what the weather is actually going to be. But when I walked to the T this morning and it was snowing, my reaction was mostly, "yup, it's getting towards that time of year."

(Thinking more, though, it's kind of strange that this is my fourth year not-at-ET. *joints creak*)

*psssssh* *squeal*

I seem to have run into the Orange Line's emergency brakes more than usual recently. A couple of nights ago, I was heading home, the train left Haymarket, and immediately stopped; I think the driver forgot to flip the wayside 40 switch, the train left ATO territory, and the system said "no cab signals, must stop!" This morning we stopped headed into Downtown Crossing inbound (or, perhaps, right in front of the platform, but in the wrong direction).

Also, conflicting with a statement I made on zephyr a long while ago, it looks like the Orange Line does in fact have train stops; I noticed them at the outbound signal at Wellington, and now that I've thought to look around they do seem to be by every wayside signal. I haven't figured out if there's anything that actually happens if a train runs over one in the raised position, but I'd also think they'd have been removed at some point in the past 20 years if the current trains completely ignored them.