MBTA DMA Posted September 20, 2019 Report Posted September 20, 2019 (edited) Active cars as of 9-19-2019: 1400/1401 - 1410/1411 cars in testing: 1412/1413 notes: 4 unnumbered pilot cars which all arrived on December 20, 2017, one pair is being upgraded at CRRC to production cars, the other pair is on the red line training operators. This pair will also be upgraded to production vehicles.. trainset notes: 1402-1407 makes up the first new orange line train which entered service Wednesday, August 14. 1400, 1401, 1408-1411 make up the second new orange line train that entered service Thursday, September 19. The first and second new trainsets are not running full-time service yet as the MBTA is closely monitoring it's performance and fine-tuning the software which is improving its performance in service. The trains run on most weekdays from morning rush into the afternoon. (According to an article, one of the new trains will run on the first half of the day and the other will run the latter part of the day) Active old orange line cars: 114 out of service cars: 6 officially retired Total amount of active cars: 126 Total amount of cars (owned by the MBTA): 132 Edited November 10, 2019 by MBTA DMA
MBTA DMA Posted February 28, 2020 Author Report Posted February 28, 2020 Active cars as of 2-20-2020: 1400/1401 - 1412/1413 cars arrived this month for testing: 1414/1415 & 1416/1417 notes: the first and second trainset are still not running full-time though now both trainsets run at the same time for both the first half and latter part of the day. with 1412/1413-1416/1417, a third trainset should be ready to start service soon. trainset notes: 1404-1407, & 1410/1411 make up first trainset, 1400-1403, & 1408/1409 make up second trainset. Trainset arrangement was switched during a series of events with the cars being taken out of service for repairs.
MBTA DMA Posted June 17, 2020 Author Report Posted June 17, 2020 Active cars as of June 2020: 1400/1401-1414/1415 & 1426/1427 So with 18 cars active now, we will soon have a third trainset of new orange line cars in service.
MBTA DMA Posted July 11, 2020 Author Report Posted July 11, 2020 1428/1429 has been delivered for testing this month.
MBTA DMA Posted July 18, 2020 Author Report Posted July 18, 2020 1416/1417 has arrived for testing this month.
MBTA DMA Posted August 31, 2020 Author Report Posted August 31, 2020 1428/1429 has been accepted for service.
MBTA DMA Posted October 6, 2020 Author Report Posted October 6, 2020 Update: Due to COVID-19 combined with other earlier issues with manufacturing in employee availibility, supplies, the new orange line cars won't be delivered until April 2023 instead of January 2022.
MBTA DMA Posted November 4, 2020 Author Report Posted November 4, 2020 pair 1416/1417 have been accepted for service
MBTA DMA Posted November 12, 2020 Author Report Posted November 12, 2020 Pair 1420/1421 has been delivered this month.
MBTA DMA Posted November 25, 2020 Author Report Posted November 25, 2020 Pair 1418/1419 has been accepted for service
MBTA DMA Posted January 9, 2021 Author Report Posted January 9, 2021 Pair 1422/1423 has been delivered this month.
MBTA DMA Posted January 25, 2021 Author Report Posted January 25, 2021 Pair 1424/1425 has been delivered although not reported by inventory page but by FMCB meeing RL/OL Transformation: PowerPoint Presentation (mbta.com)
MBTA DMA Posted January 31, 2021 Author Report Posted January 31, 2021 Pair 1420/1421 has been accepted to date
MBTA DMA Posted February 12, 2021 Author Report Posted February 12, 2021 Pair 1422/1423 is in service but is not listed as active in the inventory page. This means that there would be 28 active cars, almost enough to run 5 sets. This acceptance process is starting to go faster because that pair was delivered last month and it took longer than a month to accept cars.
MBTA DMA Posted February 14, 2021 Author Report Posted February 14, 2021 Update: The inventory page now shows 1422/1423 as active.
MBTA DMA Posted March 7, 2021 Author Report Posted March 7, 2021 1430/1431 got delivered in February.
MBTA DMA Posted March 14, 2021 Author Report Posted March 14, 2021 01242/01243 has been listed as out of service bringing the active fleet of the #12 series to 112 cars.
MBTA DMA Posted June 4, 2021 Author Report Posted June 4, 2021 1400/1401 has been out of service due to derailment damage but 1424/1425 has been accepted for service so there are 28 active cars. None of the cars have actually been operating since March 16.
MBTA DMA Posted June 27, 2021 Author Report Posted June 27, 2021 01224/01225 has been listed as out of service.
MBTA DMA Posted July 18, 2021 Author Report Posted July 18, 2021 1432/1433, 1434/1435 & 1440/1441 delivered this month.
MBTA DMA Posted September 6, 2021 Author Report Posted September 6, 2021 1438/1439, 1442/1443, & 1444/1445 delivered August 2021. (Last month from this post).
MBTA DMA Posted September 17, 2021 Author Report Posted September 17, 2021 1446/1447 delivered this month.
MBTA DMA Posted September 29, 2021 Author Report Posted September 29, 2021 1430/1431 accepted for service now. 1452/1453 delivered this month/
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