Metro train malfunction fills East Baltimore Street tunnel with smoke

A metro train had a malfunction that caused it to emit smoke on East Baltimore Street, according to Baltimore City Fire ...

New Baltimore subway cars begin to replace 40-year-old trains

Assembled at a Hitachi factory in Maryland, the rail cars represent a “generational investment,” said a Maryland ...
Trains

New subway cars enter service in Baltimore

The first six cars in an order for new subway equipment have entered service on Baltimore’s Metro subway system. On Wednesday, the Maryland Transit Administration held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to ...
Planetizen

Baltimore Metro Receives First of 78 Japanese Bullet Train Cars

As Luke Parker reports in The Baltimore Sun, the 78 new cars are produced by Hitachi Rail and feature wider doors, brighter, ...

First batch of railcars from bullet train giant hit Baltimore Metro system

Baltimore is running its first batch of Hitachi railcars underground with six new transports installed in its metro system on Thursday. In an agency news release, Maryland Department of Transportation ...
The Herald-Mail

Hitachi-built railcars from near Hagerstown debut in Baltimore

The Maryland Transit Administration introduced the first six new Hitachi railcars on the Baltimore Metro System Jan. 7, marking the first update to the system since 1983. The launch was celebrated ...