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The MBTA's light rail vehicle types follow the nomenclature of the Boston Elevated Railway, which operated five series of cars. The numbering resumed with the unbuilt Type 6 prototype in the late 1960s, and continued with the custom-designed Type 7 and Type 8 of the 1980s and 1990s respectively.
Modern light rail technology has primarily German origins, since an attempt by Boeing Vertol to introduce a new American light rail vehicle was a technical failure. After World War II, the Germans retained their streetcar (Straßenbahn) networks and evolved them into model light rail systems . [5]
The first low-floor light rail vehicle was delivered in 1996 [34] and first used in service on August 31, 1997. [33] The new vehicles also came equipped with air-conditioning , a feature originally lacking from the Type 1 vehicles. [ 31 ]
The SLRV is a double-ended high-floor articulated light rail vehicle 71 ft (22 m) long overall (over the anticlimbers), in the same range as many heavy rail vehicles both at the time and now, but noticeably shorter than many other modern LRVs such as the at-minimum-81-foot (25 m) Siemens S70 and S700 commonly found today, which rides on three ...
The vehicles will be low floor, meaning that disabled passengers can enter the cars at any of the train doors. The order builds upon an initial order of 20 cars in 2020 and another eight in 2021.
The S700 streetcars are a compact version of the S70 light rail vehicles [26] that currently operate on the LYNX Blue Line. The cost to purchase these six vehicles and spare parts is $40.4 million. [27] Houston, Texas : 18 S70 units purchased, the first of which was delivered in April 2003; [5] delivery was completed in late 2004.
The first car was delivered on January 6, 2016. [8] Later, an additional 6 cars were ordered. The first of this order was delivered in May 2019 and was put into service on July 11, 2019. In February 2020, 15 more LRVs were ordered bringing the total fleet to 84 S200 LRVs. [9] The new cars feature a host of new and upgraded technologies.
AnsaldoBreda delivered 50 P2550 Light Rail Vehicles (LRV) to Metro between 2006 and 2011 for use on the newly expanded Gold Line. Delivery of the vehicles was approximately three years behind schedule, and Metro claimed they were overweight; thus, the agency chose not to exercise their option to purchase more beyond this initially contracted order.