As new BART cars arrive, ‘legacy’ fleet heads off into uncertain future

As new BART cars arrive, ‘legacy’ fleet heads off into uncertain future

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https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/08/as-new-bart-cars-arrive-legacy-fleet-heads-off-into-uncertain-future/

HAYWARD — Workers from BART’s Hayward repair shop looked on Friday morning as a massive crane hoisted one of the agency’s old fleet of train cars onto the back of an extra-long flatbed bound for an Oakland steel yard.

Train number 2528 was the first of 669 “legacy” BART cars that will be taken out of service over the next several years as the agency replaces those models with its sleek new “Fleet of the Future.” On Friday, the car sat stripped out in the cavernous maintenance garage, the padding gone from its seats, wires hanging from its skeletal ceiling, stripes on its exterior faded to a pale blue.