The trains featured air conditioning, emergency intercoms, wheelchair spaces and automated announcements.

The P865s were the first urban rail vehicles to run in Los Angeles County since the Pacific Electric Railway ceased operations in 1965 as the first cars were delivered in May 1989.

In late 2013, Metro awarded a 60-month fixed price contract to ORX to overhaul the powered axle assemblies for the then twenty-three year old railcars.

[9] Car 108 was modified for chemical defence training and delivered to Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.

Most of the P2020 fleet was later removed and scrapped, but Car 164 is preserved at the Western Railway Museum in Suisun City, California.