MBTA To Dispose Of Old Orange Line Trains In Medford

MEDFORD, MA — The MBTA is set to begin to get rid of old Orange Line train cars on Thursday morning in Medford, reported WCVB.

Flatbed trucks will be brought in to the Wellington Yard and Maintenance Facility in Medford to take the cars to be disposed of.

These are the first Orange Line cars of the "legacy fleet" to be permanently removed from service and headed for scrap, the MBTA said.

The more-than-40-year-old cars, which were put into service from 1979 to 1981, are being replaced by an entirely new fleet of 152 new train cars. About 90 of the old cars were still in use when the shutdown began.

Two of the old cars will be preserved by the Seashore Trolley Museum, in Kennebunkport, Maine.

The scrapping of the old Orange Line cars comes nearly a month after Medford residents expressed concerns that the dozens of abandoned cars were a “public safety hazard” and called on the MBTA to remove them.