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Shoreliner
🇺🇸 United States ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· from 1983· Locomotive-hauled rail car used by the Metro-North Rsilrosd
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. MNCRR Shoreliner III GSTONE: User:Bebo2good1· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Poughkeepsie Bound: MTAEnthusiast10· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Metro-North Shoreliner IV 6222: AEMoreira042281· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Shoreliner III at Harmon: TriStateGuy· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Shoreliners are a class of locomotive-hauled rail car used by the Metro-North Railroad. They are similar to the Comet coaches used by New Jersey Transit. Ownership of the fleet is split between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT), as part of the latter's operating agreement with the MTA. MTA coaches have blue window bands, while CTDOT coaches have red ones.
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 43 years ago, in 1983.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 43 years.
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 1983
- in service from
- 1983
- status
- in service
- number built
- 368
- kind
- metro
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- ALSTOM Transportation Germany
- operators
- Metro-North Railroad
- top speed
- 193 km/h
- power
- —
- length
- 25.9 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7501462, Wikipedia: Shoreliner (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.