#4792
MBTA bilevel cars
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing· from 1990· Massachusetts passenger rail cars
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. MBTA Video Clips - MBTX 877 at Braintree: UltimateUser457· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. MBTA Needham Line train 634 at Hersey October 2025: 4300streetcar· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority operates a fleet of approximately 300 bilevel railcars on its Commuter Rail system. The cars are manufactured to the MBTA's specification by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing and Hyundai Rotem, in 7 variants that include standard coaches and cab cars. The first cars entered service in 1990, and new cars are planned to be built until the late 2020s.
who runs it
fun facts
- First built 36 years ago, in 1990.
- 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1990
- in service from
- 1990
- number built
- —
- kind
- Coach
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing, Hyundai Rotem
- operators
- MBTA Commuter Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 25.9 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q130044827, Wikipedia: MBTA bilevel cars (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.