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R110B (New York City Subway car)
🇺🇸 United States ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· from 1993· class of New York City Subway car
5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. R110B 3005: GK tramrunner229· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. MTA NYC Subway Bombardier Transportation R110B 3009: Mtattrain· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. R110B 2022: TriStateGuy· CC BY 4.0
- 4. R110B Transit Museum: TriStateGuy· CC BY 4.0
- 5. R110b: skelgardmmj· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The R110B (contract order R131) was a prototype class of experimental New Technology Train (NTT) New York City Subway cars built by Bombardier of Canada for service on the B Division services. There were nine cars, arranged as three-car sets. They were designed to test features that would be implemented on future mass-production NTT orders.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 33 years ago, in 1993.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20.4 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 183: 4 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 9 years (1993–2002).
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 1993
- in service from
- 1993
- retired
- 2002
- status
- retired
- number built
- 9
- kind
- metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- ALSTOM Transportation Germany
- operators
- New York City Subway
- top speed
- 88 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- Three-car sets
- length
- 20.4 m
- weight
- 32.2 t
- capacity
- 183 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7274367, Wikipedia: R110B (New York City Subway car) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.