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.
