New MBTA Subway trains will remain sidetracked given chronic derailment incidents

— News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

Mockup of New Orange Line cars
A file photo

New MBTA Subway trains will remain sidetracked given chronic derailment incidents.

As should come as no great surprise to both the ever-growing legions of Quincy Quarry News readers as well as those few remaining MBTA straphangers, the new mostly Chinese-made and domestically assembled new Orange and Red line subway trains will be kept out of service while an apparent design shortcoming that has caused derailments is discerned and then a fix might then be duly effected.

An MBTA Excuse Generator excuse

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A derailment at JFK Station
A Boston Fire Department image

While the suspected problem is rather complicated to explain, the reality is that it is a problem that would appear should have never occurred in the first place.

Then again, most everyone surely knew that an already running late program to finally replace the ancient Orange and Red Line subway trains would end up running even later to much later than the T all too often runs late on a frigid cold winter day.

That as well as randomly throughout the rest of the year.

Godzilla’s namesake Snowzilla blowing hot air
An MBTA photo with a Gozilla photo insert

The contract for replacing the old Orange Line trains was reached in 2014 during the waning days of Governor Deval Patrick’s administration and this set the stage for the successful bidder to then later score the contract for replacing the MBTA’s ancient Red Line trains. 

All Orange Line trains were expected to be replaced by the end of 2023, however, sometime in 2024 to perhaps 2025 should be viewed are more likely as well as who only knows when all of the Red Line trains will be replaced. 

Source: “Something acting abnormally” –  New MBTA cars will stay off the tracks for now …

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