#14 Orange Line Cars 1400-1551 (From Red/Orange Procurement discussion)

[RenegadeMonster]

Thats very interesting. Also it explains those green line trains sitting in the woods in PA I always wondered about.

I'd be cool, but I would have no place to store a red line or orange line car

[MBTA3247]

I would've expected the scrap price for a subway car to be quite a bit higher than $800.

[RenegadeMonster]

Same, but I bet the price is what the scrap company is willing to pay for them if they have to remove the cars from the T's site and transport them them selves to the scrap yard. Could also take into account of having to take some units aport on to transport.

[troffey]

Scrap steel is going for about $200/ton at a scarp yard...figure in the cost of transport or on-site scrapping and a deduction on the per/ton price for all the non-metal parts and you'd be looking at maybe $150/ton? What's the weight of a T subway car?

[RenegadeMonster]

The Boston Globe reported about 30 tons per subway car.

[BandA]

just slip some rubber wheels over the steel ones & add a generator, apply some roofing tar & bondo & you'll be stylin'. Oh, and a steering wheel, lol. Nobody will mess with you going through the Big Dig in a modified Orange Line car!

[blackcap]

The Red Line mock-up car is on display at City Hall Plaza through Thursday:

https://www.universalhub.com/2018/new-r ... ders-slide

[jwhite07]

Noticed a flatbed truck with a tarped new Orange Line car awaiting unloading behind Wellington Yard yesterday morning; per NETransit there are four expected. One pair of the cars already in testing was sitting on a yard lead south of the carhouse. Could not see where the second pair was.

[Arlington]

Noticed a flatbed truck with a tarped new Orange Line car awaiting unloading behind Wellington Yard yesterday morning; per NETransit there are four expected. One pair of the cars already in testing was sitting on a yard lead south of the carhouse. Could not see where the second pair was.

What do you/we guess: Are these the Chinese-assembled ones or the first that are final-assembled in Springfield?

[jwhite07]

Noticed a flatbed truck with a tarped new Orange Line car awaiting unloading behind Wellington Yard yesterday morning; per NETransit there are four expected. One pair of the cars already in testing was sitting on a yard lead south of the carhouse. Could not see where the second pair was.

What do you/we guess: Are these the Chinese-assembled ones or the first that are final-assembled in Springfield?

The CRRC MA website says first Springfield-produced cars expected to start rolling out in December, so I'm guessing these are imports.

[MRY]

Does any of the tariff stuff going on now effect the importation of complete cars or parts thereof?

[orange1234]

Does any of the tariff stuff going on now effect the importation of complete cars or parts thereof?

I'm not sure about the recently received pilot cars or the carbody shells, but a large majority of the subassemblies and components are actually products of non-Chinese companies and are manufactured in the US.

[BandA]

I think there is sovereign risk, but probably for orders that are receiving feddybucks. This order is paid for by MA taxpayers.

[R36 Combine Coach]

I think there is sovereign risk, but probably for orders that are receiving feddybucks. This order is paid for by MA taxpayers.

100% MassDOT funded, no FTA?

[chrisf]

100% MassDOT funded, no FTA?

Correct. This is apparently so that the MBTA could insist on them being "built" in Massachusetts.