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R65 (New York City Subway car)
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 1989· class of New York City Subway work cars
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Pump Train in Cranberry Street Tunnel after Hurricane Sandy vc: Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The R65s are New York City Subway work service cars built around 1989 by Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Kobe, Japan. They are similar-looking to the R62 and R62A passenger cars and built to IRT specifications, but can be found on either division. They are numbered PC01–PC03 and used to pump out water from flooded tunnels and open cut areas.
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 37 years ago, in 1989.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15.6 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 37 years.
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 1989
- in service from
- 1989
- status
- in service
- number built
- 3
- kind
- metro
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing
- operators
- New York City Subway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 15.6 m
- weight
- 34.3 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q18156838, Wikipedia: R65 (New York City Subway car) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.