🚃 carriage / wagon ✓ in service
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NJ Transit Comet V 6044: Adam E. Moreira· CC BY-SA 3.0 us
- 2. New Jersey Transit's Comets: MTAEnthusiast10· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. CometV 6068: GK tramrunner229· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Comet V railcar is the fifth generation of the Comet railcar series. Produced by the manufacturer Alstom, the Comet V is a rather different car compared to previous models in the series. The Comet V has been in use by New York metropolitan area commuter rail operators New Jersey Transit and Metro-North since April 2002.
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 24 years ago, in 2002.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 109: 2 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 24 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2002
- in service from
- 2002
- status
- in service
- number built
- 265
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Alstom
- operators
- New Jersey Transit Rail Operations, Metro-North Railroad, New Jersey Transit
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 25.9 m
- weight
- 45.4 t
- capacity
- 109 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q5151628, Wikipedia: Comet V (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.