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Nippon Sharyo P865
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Nippon Sharyo· from 1990· American light rail vehicle
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Expo Line and L.A. skyline: JulieAndSteve· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The P865 and P2020 are retired articulated light rail vehicles used on the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. They were manufactured by Nippon Sharyo and used on the A, C (P2020), and E lines. The trains featured air conditioning, emergency intercoms, wheelchair spaces and automated announcements.
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 36 years ago, in 1990.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 26.5 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 104: 2 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 31 years (1990–2021).
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 1990
- in service from
- 1990
- retired
- 2021
- status
- retired
- number built
- 54
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Nippon Sharyo
- operators
- Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
- top speed
- 97 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′(2)′Bo′
- formation
- Single unit
- length
- 26.5 m
- weight
- 42.7 t
- capacity
- 104 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q23926724, Wikipedia: Nippon Sharyo P865 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.