CRRC, a facility in Springfield, Mass., where trains are manufactured. Heather Brandon NEPM April 01, 2026 A shipment of rail car shells are headed to Springfield, after being released from holding by the federal government late last month. The shells, shipped from China, are used at CRRC’s Springfield manufacturing facility to create subway cars for the MBTA. They had been impounded by the Department of Homeland Security this past summer, over concerns they had been made with forced labor.