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Steinway Lo-V (New York City Subway car)
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Pressed Steel Car Company· New York City Subway car type
what is it?
The Steinway Lo-V was a New York City Subway car type built from 1915 to 1925 by the Pressed Steel Car Company, American Car and Foundry, and Pullman Company. These cars were built specifically for use on the IRT Corona Line (currently known as the IRT Flushing Line), and the IRT Astoria Line (currently known as the BMT Astoria Line). They had special gear ratios to climb the steep grades (4.5%) in the Steinway Tunnels, something standard IRT equipment could not do.
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
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 152: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 138
- kind
- metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Pressed Steel Car Company, Pullman Company
- operators
- Interborough Rapid Transit Company, New York City Board of Transportation, New York City Transit Authority
- top speed
- 97 km/h
- power
- 89 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 15.5 m
- weight
- 33.6 t
- capacity
- 152 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7606935, Wikipedia: Steinway Lo-V (New York City Subway car) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.