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Nippon Sharyo DMU
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Nippon Sharyo· from 2015· diesel multiple unit passenger train model
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. UPXatMimico: Craig James White· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Nippon Sharyo DMU is a model of diesel multiple unit passenger train designed and manufactured by Nippon Sharyo for the North American market, and compliant with FRA Tier 1 crashworthiness standards. It is operated by Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) in Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, and by Metrolinx for the Union Pearson Express airport link in Toronto, Ontario.
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 11 years ago, in 2015.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 567 kW is about 7 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2015
- in service from
- 2015
- number built
- 36
- kind
- Diesel multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Nippon Sharyo
- operators
- Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit, Metrolinx
- top speed
- 145 km/h
- power
- 567 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-B
- length
- 25.9 m
- capacity
- 80 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17183109, Wikipedia: Nippon Sharyo DMU (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.