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A Short? ~ Monday, September 18, 2017
Some of us CalTrain passengers noticed smoke from the VTA tracks. A tie seemed to be cracked open and smoke was coming out of it. This was right next to a big wire welded to the rail, by a switch. A fellow passenger took a cup of water to dump on it, which was foolish, (since this was at Mountain View, he was very likely an engineer!) and if I realized what he was doing earlier I would have yelled at him to stop, but no harm came of it.
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A VTA employee took a fire extinguisher out of an electrical box, and this made an impressive cloud of spray, but didn't seem to solbe the problem, which makes me suspect a smoldering short. Then the pros showed up from the MVFD so I presume everything is under control now, possibly with some service disruption if they turn off power, which seems likely.