With little fanfare last week the Boston MBTA retired the Boeing Trolleys from the Green Line, on the heels of the final delivery of the new(?) Breda cars – which themselves are over 9 years late on delivery. These vehicles were considered one of the bigger public transportation screw ups in history (until the Bredas came along).
Interesting note on the old Boeing cars – they had over 1300 pieces in their door assemblies. Nothing like simplicity in engineering…