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R68A (New York City Subway car)
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing· from 1988· class of New York City Subway car
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. MTA NYC Subway N train arriving at 36th Ave: Mtattrain· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Kawasaki R68A Q Train Side Rollsigns: EmperorOfNYC· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. R68A Q Terminated @ 96th Street October 2021: EmperorOfNYC· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. An R68A operating on the B line: MTAEnthusiast10· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Northbound R68A B train at Kings Hwy: JoesphBarbaro· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. R68A 5092: No machine-readable author provided. Pacific Coast Highway assumed (based on copyright claims).· Public domain
- 7. R68A B Train 001: Kidfly182· CC BY 4.0
- 8. R68A B Train 004: Kidfly182· CC BY 4.0
- 9. R68A B train at Prospect Park: GeneralPunger· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. R68A B Train Neck Road 001: Kidfly182· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The R68A is a B Division New York City Subway car order consisting of 200 cars built between 1988 and 1989 by Kawasaki Railcar Company in Kobe, Japan, with final assembly done at the Kawasaki plant in Yonkers, New York. A total of 200 cars were built, arranged in four-car sets. The R68A was the fourth and final R-type contract to be built with 75-foot (22.86 m) cars (the previous three being the R44, R46, and R68).
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 38 years ago, in 1988.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 91.4 m long: about 20 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 38 years.
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 1988
- in service from
- 1988
- status
- in service
- number built
- 200
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing
- operators
- New York City Subway
- top speed
- 88 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- 4 cars per trainset
- length
- 91.4 m
- weight
- 42.1 t
- capacity
- 70 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7274861, Wikipedia: R68A (New York City Subway car) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.