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MBTA CAF USA Type 9
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles· from 2018· low-floor light rail vehicle
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Type 9 on first day of revenue service, December 2018: MBTA· Public domain
- 2. Green Line Type 7 and Type 9 at Newton Highlands: 4300streetcar· CC BY 4.0
- 3. Green Line Type 9 3900 at Riverside Yard March 2025: 4300streetcar· CC BY 4.0
- 4. Green Line Type 9 train approaching Eliot October 2025: 4300streetcar· CC BY 4.0
- 5. MBTA Green Line Type 9 train at Amory Street: 4300streetcar· CC BY 4.0
- 6. MBTA Green Line Type 9 train at Packards Corner June 2025: 4300streetcar· CC BY 4.0
- 7. MBTA Green Line Type 9 Train at Park Street August 2024: 4300streetcar· CC BY 4.0
- 8. Type 9 and Type 8 at Cleveland Circle Dec 2024: 4300streetcar· CC BY 4.0
- 9. Type 9 at Boylston outbound platform April 2025 1: 4300streetcar· CC BY 4.0
- 10. Type 9 at Riverside station, December 2018: Beantowndude316 from USA· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Type 9 LRV is a class of low-floor light rail vehicles manufactured by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) for the MBTA Green Line. The fleet of 24 Type 9 cars was ordered in 2014 for the Green Line Extension project, and the first cars began service in 2018. Final assembly for the Type 9 cars was performed in Elmira, New York, from body shells built in Spain.
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 8 years ago, in 2018.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 22 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 212: 4 full city buses (~50 seats each).
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 2018
- in service from
- 2018
- number built
- 24
- kind
- Low-floor light rail vehicle
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
- operators
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′+2′+Bo′
- formation
- Mc-T-Mc
- length
- 22 m
- weight
- 39 t
- capacity
- 212 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q71712343, Wikipedia: MBTA CAF USA Type 9 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.