Similar Units
Kawasaki also manufactures a similar product and it is used on diesel lines of the Long Island Rail Road, the MARC Train system in Maryland, MBTA Commuter Rail in the Boston area, and, formerly, Virginia Railway Express. VRE has since sold their cars to MARC. Bombardier's Görlitz, Germany plant manufactures another type of double deck train car, the Bombardier Double-deck Coach.
Bombardier has also designed and is manufacturing the MultiLevel coach for New Jersey Transit and Agence Métropolitaine de Transport. This car is constructed of stainless steel similar to the Kawasaki cars purchased by the agencies listed above, but is built to a much tighter loading gauge, being only 14 feet, 6 inches tall.
List of rival coaches:
- Kawasaki L2 Double-Deck Coaches
- Kawasaki L3 Double-Deck Coaches
- Kawasaki MARC III Bi-Level coaches and cab cars
- Kawasaki CTC-4/BTC-4 series bi-level cars
- Hyundai Rotem BTC-5 bi-level train set
- Gallery cars (Numerous builders)
- Morrison-Knudsen 8000 series California Cars and Alstom 6000 series Surfliners for Amtrak California
- St. Louis Car Company and Nippon Sharyo Highliner cars
- Colorado Railcar (now US Railcar) DMU bi-level and bi-level trailer cars
Read more about this topic: Bombardier BiLevel Coach
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