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Next Generation Bi-Level Passenger Rail Car
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Nippon Sharyo· passenger rail car design for the United States
what is it?
The Next Generation Bi-Level Passenger Rail Car was a failed design of bilevel intercity railroad passenger cars that was to be built by Sumitomo, with construction subcontracted to Nippon Sharyo, for service in the United States. The contract was awarded in 2012 with delivery scheduled between 2015 and 2018. After delays in production, a prototype car failed buff strength testing in August 2015, leading to the cancellation of the contract with Nippon Sharyo.
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.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 4
- kind
- other
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Nippon Sharyo
- designer
- Sumitomo Corporation
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q39087498, Wikipedia: Next Generation Bi-Level Passenger Rail Car (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.