Orange You Glad You Saw Them. On July 17, 2024, the MBTA announced that the last of the 120 Type #12 Hawker-Siddeley cars (01280-01281) were transported off the property for scrap. The cars entered service 1979-1981, replacing 1950s era Pullman-Standard cars. The Type #12 were built at the same time as the Type #4 for the Blue Line and both were similar in design to the PATH PA-3s. While there will be no Orange Line Cars shortly, Blue Line Type #4 0622-0623 are preserved at the Seashore Trolley Museum and 0616-0617 are part of the the MBTA Broadway training facility and PATH PA-3 745 is preserved at the Shore Line Trolley Museum. On January 14, 2023, the Wellington yard in Medford, Massachusetts was already full of stored Type #12 cars as the pace of CRRC Type #14 arrivals increased to a point that they were the exclusive operating cars. In 2023, their mean distance between failure has been reported to exceeded the contractural requirement of 90,000 miles.
The MBTA is very dear to me. The first trains I ever rode as a toddle to teenager were those of the "T" Here is a collection of MBTA Subway and trolley I have found on RP from the 60's thru today.
