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C1
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Mitsui Group· from 1991· class of American bi-level passenger car
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Saratoga and North Creek C1 (8311459408): diaper from Newark, DE· CC BY 2.0
- 2. Saratoga and North Creek car in Hyannis: Ktr101· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The C1 is a type of bilevel commuter passenger car built by the Tokyu Car Corporation for the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). Tokyu built ten cars in 1990–1991 as a precursor to the larger C3 order, which would be built by Kawasaki in the late 1990s. The cars were designed by Comeng, one of the last projects that the firm undertook before closing in 1990.
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 35 years ago, in 1991.
- 25 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 8 years (1991–1999).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1991
- in service from
- 1991
- retired
- 1999
- status
- retired
- number built
- 10
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Mitsui Group, Japan Transport Engineering Company, Tokyu Car Corporation
- designer
- Commonwealth Engineering
- operators
- Long Island Rail Road
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 25 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q30334272, Wikipedia: C1 (railcar) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.