Kinki Sharyo Type 7 on the MBTA Green Line (Boston, MA).
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KINKI SHARYO
Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd. (近畿車輛株式会社, Kinki Sharyō kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese manufacturer of railroad vehicles based in Osaka. It is an affiliate company of Kintetsu Corporation. In business since 1920 as Tanaka Rolling Stock Works, and renamed The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd in 1945, they produce rolling stock for numerous transportation agencies, ranging from Shinkansen high-speed trains to light rail vehicles. Kinki Sharyo is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as TYO: 7122.
VTA San Jose.
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Clients
North America
- Boston's MBTA Green Line
- LA's Metro A, E, L, K, and C lines.
- New Jersey's Hudson-Bergen and Newark Light Rail systems
- San Jose's VTA light rail
- Phoenix's Valley Metro Rail
- Seattle's Sound Transit Link 1 Line
- Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail Dallas, Texas (Kinki Sharyo SLRV)
- Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México
DART Dallas.
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Products
- Railway Transportation in the United States
- Unnamed Low Floor LRV – Santa Clara County, California
- Green Line (MBTA) Type 7 Light Rail Vehicle – Boston, Massachusetts
- HB Series (informal name) low-floor light rail vehicle – Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Newark & Hudson County, New Jersey
- Super LRV (semi-formal name for rebuilt product) – Dallas, Texas
- Kinkisharyo-Mitsui LF LRV – Sound Transit Link light rail, Seattle, Washington
- Valley Metro Rail LF LRV – Phoenix, Arizona (entered service 2008)
- LFX-300 – marketed as AmeriTRAM™ and tested on Charlotte Area Transit System network in 2011.
- P3010 – LA Metro, Los Angeles, California
- Refurbishment of the Hitachi Rail CQ311 used by MARTA
- Refurbishment of the AnsaldoBreda P2550 used by LA Metro
Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd. Overview
Native name: 近畿車輛株式会社
Romanized name: Kinki Sharyō kabushiki gaisha
Company type: Public
Traded as: TYO: 7122
Industry: Rolling stock manufacturing
Founded: December 19, 1920
Headquarters: Osaka, Japan
Key people: Itsuo Morishita (President)
Number of employees: 1,000
Parent: Kintetsu Group Holdings Co.
Website: www.kinkisharyo.co.jp/english/
