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R142A (New York City Subway car)
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing· from 2000· class of New York City Subway car
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Woodlawn Bound 4: MTAEnthusiast10· CC BY 4.0
- 2. R142A LED: txtallynxtjustin on YouTube (Image uploaded by TriStateGuy ).· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The R142A is the second order of new technology cars (NTTs) for the A Division of the New York City Subway. These cars were built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan, and Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. with final assembly performed at Yonkers, New York. Together with the R142s, they replaced the Redbird trains, including the R26, R28, R29, R33, R33S, and R36.
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 26 years ago, in 2000.
- 1.6 MW is about 18 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 156 m long: about 35 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 176: 4 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 26 years.
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 2000
- in service from
- 2000
- status
- in service
- number built
- 220
- kind
- metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing
- operators
- New York City Subway
- top speed
- 106 km/h
- power
- 1.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- 5-car sets (2 A cars and 3 B cars)
- length
- 156 m
- weight
- 33.2 t
- capacity
- 176 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7274402, Wikipedia: R142A (New York City Subway car) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.