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Gibbs Hi-V (New York City Subway car)
🇺🇸 United States ·built by American Car and Foundry Company· retired class of New York City Subway car
what is it?
The Gibbs Hi-V was a New York City Subway car class built from 1904 to 1905 by American Car and Foundry for the IRT and its successors, the New York City Board of Transportation and the New York City Transit Authority. It was the first all-steel subway car ordered for New York City. Because of the sliding doors which enclosed the motorman's vestibules from the rest of the car compartment, the cars were nicknamed Merry Widows.
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
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 300
- kind
- metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- American Car and Foundry Company
- operators
- Interborough Rapid Transit Company, New York City Board of Transportation, New York City Transit Authority
- top speed
- 88 km/h
- power
- 149 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- Singles
- length
- 15.5 m
- weight
- 40.6 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5558955, Wikipedia: Gibbs Hi-V (New York City Subway car) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.