Green Line Type 10 Procurement

[Equilibria]

Thinking a little more about the maintenance rationale for the window design: Do other transit systems with the more stock Urbos design not suffer from window issues at the same rate as the T? How do they handle the maintenance? Why can’t the T handle newer window systems like the Urbos?

They did mention commonality. It's possible other systems with the Urbos don't have large heavy rail fleets. North American deployments were in Calgary, Cincinnati, KC, and Seattle, none of which have metro-style vehicles.

What a pleasure it is to look up an MBTA vehicle model and see a long list of international users on Wikipedia...

 

[RandomWalk]

How much cross-pollination happens between the various fleet maintenance facilities? Each fleet has its own facility and none of the lines share fleets.

 

[Jahvon09]

What happens to these mockups when they're no longer needed? Just scrapped? Seems like it would make a great exhibit for a children's museum, or at least someone's super sick Densha De Go setup.

I think that the mockup will be taken someplace & put on display. I remember the Type 6 mockup. It was given to the Seashore Trolley Museum.

 

[stick n move]

Some more pics:

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/10/30/photos-the-mbtas-new-green-line-train-arriving-2027

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[F-Line to Dudley]

How much cross-pollination happens between the various fleet maintenance facilities? Each fleet has its own facility and none of the lines share fleets.

The parts warehouse is consolidated across the rapid transit division, so there is a degree of maintenance centralization for keeping replacement parts in-stock.

 

[RandomWalk]

Do the GL trains use the same window units or parts as any other equipment?

 

[F-Line to Dudley]

Do the GL trains use the same window units or parts as any other equipment?

The window sizes would be custom for each rolling stock make, but things like the rubber sealers and general methods of window replacement are probably standardized so they have a (weak) argument for staying with what they've always done for window selection on the Type 10's. Plenty of other components are commodity, though...especially with the mechanical guts. The Orange/Red CRRC cars and CAF Type 9's all use Mitsubishi Electric propulsion, for example, so a lot of those parts are completely common.

 

[RandomWalk]

That makes a lot more sense. Standardizing the running gear is good. Sticking with the window and body systems that they know seems less of a concrete good.