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End of the ’upside-down helicopter’
By Railway Gazette International and Julian Wolinsky2007-05-01T10:00:00
ON MARCH 16 Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority retired the last of its Boeing light rail vehicles, replaced by newer LRVs from Breda and Kinki Sharyo.The occasion closes the book on an ambitious but ill-starred 1970s attempt by US defence manufacturers to diversify into the rail sector after the Vietnam War ...
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