Passenger Trains > LA Metro Blue Line reopens

According to The Source at Metro.net, repairs to the track, overhead system and signal equipment were completed Friday evening around 8 PM, repairs have been tested and trains are running normally.  One cause of the long repair time was the necessity of rebuilding one of the overhead support structure bases, which required pouring concrete and giving it time to set.  My guess is that the damage was so severe because the automobile got wedged under the leading truck of the first car and the derailed car struck the pole.  Typical trains on the Blue Line are three cars, so there's a lot of weight behind a collision.  Back in the 1940s, a Pacific Electric train hit a car on a grade crossing near Glendora, and the wreckage of the car wedged under the PE car and dumped it on its side; around 1970 I met the PE conductor on that train, who by then was running a diesel locomotive for the SP on a former PE route.