Red Line returns to normal after work car derailment

By Colleen Kelleher
February 21, 2017 | 8:02 AM

Red Line returns to normal after work car derailment

WASHINGTON — Metro’s Red Line returned to normal service just before 8 a.m. Tuesday after a derailed work car forced subway trains to run on a single train between NoMa and Judiciary Square.

Metro had urged riders to consider alternatives and for MARC and Virginia Railway Express riders to use stations other than Union Station.

The two hours of single tracking caused delays at Union Station.

Metro hopes for temporary Dupont, Farragut North cooling fix this summer

By Max Smith
May 15, 2017 | 7:13 PM

WASHINGTON — Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld stood Monday next to the Metro chiller pumps sitting idle for a third straight year about 40 feet below Connecticut Avenue Northwest and said he hopes — but cannot promise — that a temporary fix for the cooling system for Dupont Circle and Farragut North will be in place at some point this summer. Pipes connecting the chiller vault to a cooling tower about 500 feet south on Connecticut Avenue and 13 stories up have been leaking since at least 2015. Metro believes those 500 feet of pipes are the only issue that has kept the stations from being cooled by the shared chiller plant since then.

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