Orange line train now, blue line train later? Photo by Adam Fagen.

Orange Line train now, Blue Line train later? Photo by Adam Fagen.

Beloved transit system Metro suffered a minor snafu today when a train claiming to be an Orange Line train headed to Vienna started behaving like a Blue Line train.

WTOP has the story:

A train left the Rosslyn station on Wednesday morning with signs indicating it was on the Orange Line, but when it headed toward the Arlington Cemetery station, the operator realized the mistake. The train stopped at the cemetery station; the passengers got off and transferred back to Rosslyn to catch the Orange Line.

Metro says that each train’s operator enters a destination code, which determines how switches are thrown.The train’s signage is done separately.

A minor inconvenience, to be sure, and Metro told WTOP no one was in danger. But it still provided Bobby McMahon, who was on the train this morning, to tweet out a very great thought about the ‘ol switcheroo.

Indeed, as Rocky told the people of Soviet Union, “If I can change, and you can change, everybody can change!”

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