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CRRC started running new subway cars -- Orange Line cars it's building for the MBTA -- on its 2,200-foot test track during the week of Nov. 13. Each new car costs $2.43 million.
SPRINGFIELD — Replacement parts for CRRC MA-built Orange Line MBTA cars pulled from service earlier this month were due to arrive at a maintenance facility Monday and the cars will be back ...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service agents detained subway car shells and assorted parts imported from China for ...
The Trump administration’s trade war with China will have a negative impact on the production of Orange and Red Line MBTA ...
There are fresh concerns that the production of new Red and Orange Line MBTA cars could slow down at the Springfield plant where they are being built as CRRC, the Chinese-based company that owns the ...
The T for years has had contracts worth nearly $900 million in place with Chinese rail company CRRC to replace the entire Red and Orange Line fleets with 404 brand-new vehicles, but so far only 78 ...
A CRRC spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment. CRRC is set to deliver 152 new Orange Line cars and 252 new Red Line cars as part of an approximately $1 billion contract with ...
Most of the vehicles will be assembled at CRRC’s new $95 million rolling stock manufacturing facility in Springfield, Mass., which is scheduled to open in 2018. The new Orange Line trains are expected ...
CRRC’s current schedule puts the remaining Orange Line delivery into next summer, and the final Red Line cars wouldn’t arrive until the summer of 2025, putting the projects 17 and 21 months ...
The MBTA’s new Orange and Red Line cars were falling behind schedule before the outbreak of COVID-19. But the pandemic certainly didn’t help. During a meeting Monday afternoon, MBTA officials ...
BOSTON (WWLP) – State transportation officials are holding a ribbon cutting event in Boston Monday, where there will be mock MBTA Orange Line cars on display. More than 150 Orange Line cars were ...
The first four uncompleted shells for MBTA Orange Line subway cars arrived at the CRRC MA plant in East Springfield this week. Boston Business Journal Select a City ...