New Red and Orange Line Cars

Look what Wellington Yard got for Christmas! Like most Christmas presents, this one was made in China.

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When will the unveiling of the cars be, the week of Christmas?
 
In addition to procuring the new Red & Orange Line trains, the MBTA has announced some of its sweeping changes with the system, most of which we already know about.

Among those changes is the planned 20-month closing of Wollaston Station on the Re Line for a complete revamp to make it ADA accessible. This will include new elevators, escalators & walkways. Much like the nearly 2-year closing of Gov't Center Station for pretty much the same things. :cool:



https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/12/20/mbta-changes
 
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Three of the four were outside in the yard this afternoon:

 
Lookin' GOOD!!! Nice shiny glistening stainless steel accented by a luscious orange color!! :cool:
 
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jass said:
Those seats do not look comfortable
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Neither do the ones on the buses, but those do OK for a 30 min trip. Personally, I value a clean seat (or one that readily shows dirt or wet) above a comfortable one
 
Arlington said:
Neither do the ones on the buses, but those do OK for a 30 min trip. Personally, I value a clean seat (or one that readily shows dirt or wet) above a comfortable one
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Why not both? the WMATA seats are clean and comfortable. NJ Transit uses the same seats on their buses.
 
Arlington said:
Neither do the ones on the buses, but those do OK for a 30 min trip. Personally, I value a clean seat (or one that readily shows dirt or wet) above a comfortable one
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I think that they are doing that for a reason. To allow more standing room for standees on the trains.

That is probably why they said that each car can accommodate about 15 more passengers. I still have yet to ride on one of Washington DC's new trains.
 
I don't like the yellow interior end of the car, it'd look better as just metal or white, IMO.
 
Equilibria said:
I wonder if it's yellow for the same reason the poles are: ADA. Either that or they chose it to match the poles.
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The poles and car end just have to contrast with the main color scheme of the interior. Yellow is not necessarily required, though it is often the best contrasting color. I just hope they don't do yellow on the RL cars otherwise the scheme will end up looking like McDonalds on wheels.
 
datadyne007 said:
The poles and car end just have to contrast with the main color scheme of the interior. Yellow is not necessarily required, though it is often the best contrasting color. I just hope they don't do yellow on the RL cars otherwise the scheme will end up looking like McDonalds on wheels.
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Do they? There seems to be plenty of new rolling stock in the US which has standard metal poles and car ends that look identical to the rest of the interior. (NYC's R179s and WMATA 7000 series come to mind as current/recent examples.)

I understand the potential benefits of the yellow poles and am supportive of that, but I can't think of why you'd need to differentiate the car end like that.
 
datadyne007 said:
The poles and car end just have to contrast with the main color scheme of the interior. Yellow is not necessarily required, though it is often the best contrasting color. I just hope they don't do yellow on the RL cars otherwise the scheme will end up looking like McDonalds on wheels.
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In that case, if it were me, I'd have made the contrasting color orange and red for each line and made the rest of the interior white/gray. Oh, well.
 
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