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9/11/2001
Rail News: Passenger Rail
MBTA taps Siemens for heavy-rail cars
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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Sept. 7 awarded Siemens Transportation Systems Inc. a $172 million contract for 94 heavy-rail vehicles, capital spare parts for the cars and an allowance for the overhaul of 24 existing vehicles.
Siemens primarily is known in the continental United States for its light-rail vehicles — although the company currently is manufacturing heavy-rail vehicles at is Sacramento, Calif., plant for Puerto Rico’s Tren Urbano project.
STS will oversee the project and provide engineering, design, procurement, sub-assembly supplies and technology for MBTA’s cars; STS partner, Hornell, N.Y.-based Transportation & Transit Associates Inc., will assemble the vehicles.
BMTA plans to use the cars on its Blue Line, which currently provides 57,000 passenger trips daily — many of which to Logan International Airport. Officials expect the new cars to boost the Blue Line’s total passenger capacity by 35 percent.
Siemens primarily is known in the continental United States for its light-rail vehicles — although the company currently is manufacturing heavy-rail vehicles at is Sacramento, Calif., plant for Puerto Rico’s Tren Urbano project.
STS will oversee the project and provide engineering, design, procurement, sub-assembly supplies and technology for MBTA’s cars; STS partner, Hornell, N.Y.-based Transportation & Transit Associates Inc., will assemble the vehicles.
BMTA plans to use the cars on its Blue Line, which currently provides 57,000 passenger trips daily — many of which to Logan International Airport. Officials expect the new cars to boost the Blue Line’s total passenger capacity by 35 percent.
