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World's Fair Lo-V (New York City Subway car)
🇺🇸 United States ·built by St. Louis Car Company· New York City Subway car type
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Interborough Rapid Transit St. Louis Car Company WF Lo-V 5655: Mtattrain· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The World's Fair Lo-V was a New York City Subway car type built in 1938 by the St. Louis Car Company in St. Louis, Missouri.
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 154: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 50
- kind
- metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- St. Louis Car Company
- operators
- Interborough Rapid Transit Company, New York City Board of Transportation, New York City Transit Authority
- top speed
- —
- power
- 93 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 15.5 m
- weight
- 34.1 t
- capacity
- 154 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q8035221, Wikipedia: World's Fair Lo-V (New York City Subway car) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.