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- 1. SEPTA Silverliner V 834 inbound approaching Hatboro Station: Dough4872· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Silverliner V is an electric multiple unit railcar designed and built by Hyundai Rotem. It is used by Philadelphia's SEPTA Regional Rail and Denver's Regional Transportation District. This is the fifth generation railcar in the Silverliner family of single level EMUs.
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 16 years ago, in 2010.
- Top speed is 1.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 14 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 26 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2010
- in service from
- 2010
- status
- in service
- number built
- 372
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Hyundai Rotem
- operators
- SEPTA Regional Rail, Regional Transportation District, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
- top speed
- 177 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Overhead line:, 3 (RTD & SEPTA), 3 SEPTA's 25 Hz traction power system, 12 kV 25 Hz AC (SEPTA), 3 Electrification of the New York, New Have…
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 26 m
- weight
- 66.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7516726, Wikipedia: Silverliner V (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.