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R62A (New York City Subway car)
🇺🇸 United States ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· from 1985· a Bombardier-made class of NYC Subway rolling stock
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. MTA NYC Subway 1 train leaving 125th St: Mtattrain· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Downtown 1 train approaching 125th Street station June 2026 2 (cropped): 4300streetcar· CC BY 4.0
- 3. Bombardier R62A 1 Train Side Rollsigns: EmperorOfNYC· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. 1 subway train (R62A) arriving to 125th St station, Manhattan: Magnus Bäck· CC BY 3.0
- 5. 1 subway train (R62A) at 125th St station, Manhattan: Magnus Bäck· CC BY 3.0
- 6. 207th Yard Low V R44 R62A: Fan Railer ( talk )· Public domain
- 7. 74 St Broadway station R62A 7 train: The All-Nite Images from NY, NY, USA· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 8. Bombardier R62A EMU MTA New York City Transit: Samson Ng . D201@EAL· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. Bombardier R62A EMU: Samson Ng . D201@EAL· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. Bombardier R62A “1” Train arriving into 207th Street - November 2022: EmperorOfNYC· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The R62A is a New York City Subway car model built between 1984 and 1987 by Bombardier Transportation for the A Division. The cars were built in La Pocatière, Quebec, with final assembly done in Auburn, New York and Barre, Vermont, under a license from Kawasaki Heavy Industries, manufacturer of the previous R62 order. A total of 825 cars were built, arranged as sets of three, four, or five cars per set.
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 41 years ago, in 1985.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 93.3 m long: about 21 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 41 years.
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 1985
- in service from
- 1985
- status
- in service
- number built
- 825
- kind
- Subway electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- ALSTOM Transportation Germany
- operators
- New York City Subway
- top speed
- 88 km/h
- power
- 86 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- 5-car sets (1651–1900, 1961–2475), Single units (select cars from 1906–1960), 6-car sets (other select cars from 1901–1…
- length
- 93.3 m
- weight
- 34.3 t
- capacity
- 42 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7274838, Wikipedia: R62A (New York City Subway car) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.