The majority of the old cars will be recycled. The Fleet Disposition Team will manage the process, including selecting which parts should be harvested from retired vehicles and choosing which cars with the highest failure rates get retired first.
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“It comes out in shreds as small as your fist. The scrap steel from BART cars is sold to mills to create new products like rebar. The aluminum and copper are shipped to smelters and foundries to make new aluminum airplane and car parts, and copper wiring for home appliances and electronics.
This is the deep clean -- BART's all-out, every-nook-and-cranny effort to fight back against whatever the Bay Area throws at or into these trains. Every 400 hours we come in, Burditt explained. From top to bottom. Each car takes two people and about two to three hours to complete.
Operating shorter trains means the agency will be able to run full service with only its new cars. Unlike the old trains that have been in service since 1972, BART's newer “Fleet of the Future” trains have fewer seats that can't be vandalized.
At the recycle facility, a huge machine crushes the car and breaks it into chunks. Workers put the big chunks through a series of steps that sort out the different types of metal materials – mostly steel, aluminum and copper – and run them through a mega-shredder that can pulverize them into tinier pieces.
Q9: Will the new cars be faster? A: No.The new cars have a maximum speed of 80 miles per hour. To go faster than that, changes would need to be made, not only to the rail car propulsion systems, but also to other BART infrastructure.
Railfan & Railroad stated in 2022 that the only places on earth to see steam locomotives in revenue freight service are small switching operations in China, North Korea and Bosnia, but that these were sporadic at best. Tourist locomotives are still in regular use.
These cars have much longer lifespans, typically lasting 50 years. Boxcars were used for bulk commodities like coal until open-top hoppers and covered hoppers came on the market, making it easier to load and unload bulk products.
Can train maintenance be sustainable? The trains have a lifespan of about 30 years, and mechanics maintain them until the end of their lifespan to ensure safety. The most used maintenance method today is preventive maintenance. Preventive maintenance is a method of replacing parts at regular intervals.
A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives.
BART plans to launch the Fleet of the Future trains using eight-car and six-car trains but will adjust as ridership grows. Running trains with fewer cars will allow the BART Police Department (PD) to increase its visibility on trains and platforms while using the same number of staff.
A controlled multi-step clean that requires cleaners scrub every surface of a train car, from ceiling to baseboards. Thorough cleans take two cleaners about two hours to complete. They occur every 450 hours a car is in service.
The safest BART stations were Pittsburg and West Dublin, which had no reported thefts in 2019, Millbrae, with one, and North Concord and South San Francisco, which each had two. BART police made arrests in 67 of the robbery and theft cases involving electronics last year.
Like most trains, BART wheels are tied together with rigid axels and no differentials. This means the wheels always rotate at the same speed, even around corners. Because the inner radius is smaller, there is less distance to travel, which can cause a slippage between the wheels and track, which is noisy.