In case you missed it, the Boston Globe reported last week:
“The Chinese company building subway cars for the MBTA hosted a ceremony to celebrate the completion of the new Orange Line vehicles at its factory in Western Massachusetts, as it lobbies the Trump administration for a break from the tariffs in the two countries’ ongoing trade war. The ceremony included a not-so-subtle hint from Chinese Consulate-General Huang Ping about the trade tensions… The world’s largest rail manufacturer, CRRC Corp. is subsidized by the same government locked in a manufacturing-centered trade war with President Trump. But unlike most goods for US consumers from China, the new subway cars were built on American soil — at a 204,000-square-foot Springfield factory.”
About 400 new Orange Line and Red Line subway cars will be built at the facility during the next five years. Reportedly, train cars for Philadelphia and Los Angeles will also be built at the same facility.