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Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company

Infobox_Company
company_name = Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company
company_
company_type = Division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries
slogan = Kawasaki Rail Car, Inc.: Innovating rail
foundation = 1906
location = Chūō-ku, Kobe, Japan
industry = Rolling stock manufacturing
products = Electric cars (including Shinkansen trains
Monorails
Passenger coaches and freight cars
Diesel locomotives
Electric locomotives
Platform screen door systems
Passenger coaches and freight cars integrated transit systems
homepage = [http://www.khi.co.jp/sharyo/index_e.html http://www.khi.co.jp/sharyo]
[http://www.kawasakirailcar.com/ kawasakirailcar.com]

nihongo|Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company|川崎重工業車両カンパニー|Kawasaki Jūkōgyō Sharyō Kampanī is the rolling stock production division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Since beginning operations in 1906, the company has produced more than 90,000 railroad vehicles.

Products

As indicated by the company name, the company mainly produces railroad vehicles. Recently Kawasaki has received orders from customers in foreign countries, including Ireland and the United States. All products manufactured for the US rail market are sold through Kawasaki Rail Car Inc., another division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Because of substantial sales to the New York City Subway and various commuter lines, an overseas assembly plant been established in Yonkers, New York. (At present, most of the vehicles for the US market are already produced there)

JR Group

* Shinkansen: All types, except Type 800 (They did produce chassis of Type 800)
* JR / JNR local lines:
**Former JNR: Type 103, Type 211
**JR Central Type 383
**JR East Type 651 (all cars), Type E231, Type E531, Type 701, Type E721
**JR Hokkaido: Type 731
**JR West Type 681, Type 683, Type 223, Type 125 (all cars)

Major private railway corporation

* Hanshin Electric Railway
* Keihan Electric Railway
* Keihin Electric Express Railway
* Nishi-Nippon Railroad
* Odakyu Electric Railway
* Tokyo Metro

Other railway companies in Japan

* Hokushin Kyuko Electric Railway (All cars)
* Kobe Electric Railway (All cars)
* Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company (All cars)
* Saitama Railway
* Sanyo Electric Railway (All cars)
* Semboku Rapid Railway
* Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit (All cars)

Public transportation bureaus

*Fukuoka City Transportation Bureau
*Kobe Municipal Transportation Bureau (All cars)
*Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau
*Sapporo City Transportation Bureau (All subways, some tramways)
*Sendai City Transportation Bureau
*Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation
*Yokohama City Transportation Bureau (All cars)


=Monorails & ATGs=

*Hiroshima Rapid Transit
*Kobe New Transit
*Kitakyushu Urban Monorail
*Okinawa City Monorail
*Osaka Monorail
*Saitama New Urban Transit
*Tama Toshi Monorail

Overseas export

*Chinese Ministry of Railways (Type 6K, Type CRH2)
*Iarnród Éireann (Irish Railways)
*MTR (Type SP1900, West Rail Line Type Kawasaki
*Long Island Rail Road C-3 bilevel cars
*MARC bilevel commuter cars
*Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (Bilevel commuter cars)
*New York City Subway (R62, R68A, R110A, R142A, R143, R160B)
*Metro-North Railroad M8
*PATH PA4 and PA5 cars
*Panama Canal Authority
*Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (C151, C751B)
*SEPTA Broad Street Subway cars and Subway-Surface trolleys
*Taipei Rapid Transit System (C301, C371)
*Taiwan High Speed Rail (Type 700T)
*Virginia Railway Express bilevel commuter cars

External links

* [http://www.khi.co.jp/sharyo/index_e.html Rolling Stock official webpage]
* [http://www.kawasakirailcar.com Kawasaki Rail Car official webpage]


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