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Comet
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Pullman Company· from 1970· class of locomotive-hauled railcars
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NJTR 5003 on Train 3896: Adam E. Moreira· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. NJT Train 6648: Adam E. Moreira· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Comet V: Adam E. Moreira· CC BY-SA 3.0 us
- 4. Horizon: Pi.1415926535· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Comet railcar is a class of locomotive-hauled railcars that was first designed in the late 1960s by Pullman-Standard as a modern commuter car for North American rail lines. Later, the Comet moniker was adopted by NJ Transit for all of its non-powered single level commuter coaches. Additional series of cars bearing the Comet name, based on the original design, have since been built by Bombardier Transportation and Alstom.
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 56 years ago, in 1970.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1970
- in service from
- 1970
- number built
- —
- kind
- Push-pull coaches
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Pullman Company, ALSTOM Transportation Germany, Alstom, Bombardier, Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company
- operators
- Erie Lackawanna Railway, Conrail, New Jersey Transit Rail Operations, Metro-North Railroad, SEPTA Regional Rail, Exo, FrontRunner, Amtrak California, New Jersey Transit, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
- top speed
- 193 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q1114230, Wikipedia: Comet (railcar) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.