Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ US-based subsidiary Kawasaki Rail Car (KRC) has delivered the first unit of R211 subway cars for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) New York City Transit ...

Kawasaki—better known for fast motorbikes and ATVs—is going to make the next batch of rail cars for the LIRR and Metro-North, MTA officials said today after a new $1.8 billion contract was ...

MTA unveils the new Kawasaki R211 subway cars on Thursday, July 1, 2021 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Theodore Parisienne/for New York Daily News The new trains have built-in camera systems.

The high-tech R211 cars designed and engineered by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing Inc. are part of what will eventually be a total of 1,610 new cars that were purchased for $4.5 billion over the ...

YONKERS - The Kawasaki company will only perform final assembly and other finishing touches in Yonkers on subway cars it expects to build for New York City. Most of the manufacturing of the more ...

The initial order, the MTA’s first major subway car purchase in five years, was awarded to manufacturer Kawasaki in 2018 and included 535 of the state-of-the-art R211s. 3.

The MTA board is poised to buy 80 new "open-gangway" R211T subway cars, part of a larger, 435-car purchase option from train-builder Kawasaki that was delayed by the pause on congestion pricing.

Labor shortages at Kawasaki’s Lincoln, Nebraska factory along with supply chain issues have led to a 17-month delay for the initial batch of cars, which were expected to roll onto the subway’s ...

The new cars will replace R42 cars dating to 1969-70, and some R32 cars, which are more than 50 years old. They will be built at Kawasaki’s facilities in Yonkers, N.Y., and Lincoln, Neb. The new deal ...

With great expectations on the receiving end, a convoy of flatbed trucks was loading Wednesday and leaving Kawasaki's plant in Lincoln Thursday to deliver new subway cars to the nation's ...

Transit officials initially expanded the contract in 2022 with a new $1.8 billion order for 640 more subway cars. This week's order will bring the Kawasaki contract to more than $4 billion for ...