New Red and Orange Line Cars

I remember riding them on the Blue Line. The wooden benches were painted blue. The front window was opened down in the summer for air. :cool:
 
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Does anyone know what kind of work is being done at the Wellington facility?

They've moved the service road on the east side of the building closer to the tracks, and in recent weeks have framed in and furred over the windows along the side. This morning I saw them tearing out those windows. Expansion of the building, or what?
 
cadetcarl said:
Does anyone know what kind of work is being done at the Wellington facility?

They've moved the service road on the east side of the building closer to the tracks, and in recent weeks have framed in and furred over the windows along the side. This morning I saw them tearing out those windows. Expansion of the building, or what?
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Expansion of the building.
 
cadetcarl said:
Does anyone know what kind of work is being done at the Wellington facility?

They've moved the service road on the east side of the building closer to the tracks, and in recent weeks have framed in and furred over the windows along the side. This morning I saw them tearing out those windows. Expansion of the building, or what?
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Multiple projects. They're basically rebuilding much of the existing yard, expanding the yard with new tracks, expanding the building (as Equilibria noted), and renovating the existing building.

There's been more recent presentations if you dig into the FMCB meeting docs, but for the first thing I found the lays it out: https://www.massdot.state.ma.us/Por...ardDirectors/Red_Orange_Line_Improvements.pdf
 
Equilibria said:
Expansion of the building.
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To make some room for the new railcars when they are about to come online for revenue service. Also, possibly to store them late at night. It is part of the deal. :cool:
 
Thanks! That presentation was especially informative. I wonder what form the expansion will take. It's a concrete building, looks like it'd be tough to demo the walls because they were cast with the columns. But we'll see.
 
Some part of me will miss the fake wood walls and ms paint felt chairs.
 
They sure need to replace those wooden tops because they look very weather-beaten on the platforms. :mad:

Should be replaced with stone.Stone is far better & it lasts a lifetime!!

They are getting away from the wood-look walls. The newer ones help to gives the railcars a more open look & feel. :cool:
 
I like the wood benches. The OL extension can be pretty Brutalist so I appreciate that the original design softened it up a bit. If only they could be maintained....Stone tops would deaden the look of places like Wellington and Malden Ctr imo.
 
cadetcarl said:
Stone tops would deaden the look of places like Wellington and Malden Ctr imo.
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But stone is practically maintenance-free. Not much that you'd have to do to it except to pressure-wash it to get it clean.

But, as the old saying goes, you get what you pay for. Buy quality once or buy crap forever!! Hah!! :eek:
 
This morning I saw a two car set running on the test track, inbound, @ the Assembly Row station. I was so shocked I forgot to grab my camera. Sorry!!
 
Jahvon09 said:
But, as the old saying goes, you get what you pay for. Buy quality once or buy crap forever!! Hah!! :eek:
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Wood is not crap. It's softer to sit on, warmer in the winter, and more attractive in an otherwise all concrete wasteland.
 
chmeeee said:
Wood is not crap. It's softer to sit on, warmer in the winter, and more attractive in an otherwise all concrete wasteland.
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It is not that wood is crap. The problem is that wood takes maintenance to stay in good condition. Maintenance is a word the T has apparently never hear of.
 
JeffDowntown said:
It is not that wood is crap. The problem is that wood takes maintenance to stay in good condition. Maintenance is a word the T has apparently never hear of.
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The T just refurbed the wood benches on the platform at Quincy Adams and they are gorgeous, but the reason they had to refurb them was because the existing ones were so poorly maintained.
 
Same thing with the ones at Wellington Station and others.
 
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