OAKLAND, Calif. — The last original Bay Area Rapid Transit cars are set to be retired next month, public broadcaster KQED reports.
With some 560 of the next-generation “Fleet of the Future” now in service, BART plans to retire its legacy equipment as of Sept. 11, 51 years after the system opened. The transit operator’s move from eight- to six-car trains — to reflect current demand, decrease operating costs, and for safety reasons — means the new equipment will be enough to cover the full schedule.
BART General Manager Robert Powers told KQED that there will be a farewell ride for the soon-to-be-retired equipment, although the date has yet to be set. He told the broadcaster that the legacy cars “have really performed. But change is inevitable, and change is good, and these new cars are just so superior.”
The original fleet of 58 A cars (those with cabs) and 113 B cars (trailing only) was built between 1968 and 1975 by aerospace firm Rohr Industries, and began service when BART opened on Sept. 11, 1972. A later generation of “C” cars will also be retired, with the problem-plagued, Morrison-Knudsen-built C2 series already having been decommissioned in 2021. Eight of the cars have been awarded for reuse ranging from a display at the Western Railway Museum in Suisun City, Calif., to firefighter training equipment [see “BART to award eight retired cars …,” Trains News Wire, March 16, 2022]. The rest will be recycled in a process that can yield up to 22 tons of metal.
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