MBTA Orange Line's 111th anniversary

Pictured: MBTA maintenance facility foreman Tom McHale stands behind a hairnet and roll of electrical tape at the Wellington MBTA Orange Line Maintenance Facility. He devised a way to tape hairnets around air intake filters to the motor of the trains, preventing them from failing in snowy conditions and saving the MBTA a lot of money.
Bill Greene / Globe Staff
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By Andrew Ba Tran, Boston.com
Pictured: MBTA maintenance facility foreman Tom McHale stands behind a hairnet and roll of electrical tape at the Wellington MBTA Orange Line Maintenance Facility.

He devised a way to tape hairnets around air intake filters to the motor of the trains, preventing them from failing in snowy conditions and saving the MBTA a lot of money.