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C3
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing· from 1998· bi-level coach railroad car
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- 1. LIRR 5023 - July 2024: pensyfan19· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The C3 is a bi-level coach railroad car built by Kawasaki. Ordered by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for use on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), the cars began to enter revenue service in 1997. The rail cars are pulled and pushed by EMD DE30AC and DM30AC dual-mode (diesel and electric) locomotives.
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 28 years ago, in 1998.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 143: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 28 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1998
- in service from
- 1998
- status
- in service
- number built
- 134
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing
- operators
- Long Island Rail Road
- top speed
- 161 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2′2′
- length
- 25.9 m
- weight
- 67.5 t
- capacity
- 143 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5008156, Wikipedia: C3 (railcar) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.