LIRR Kawasaki M9 Carbodies in Lincoln, NE

This video is a brief tour of the Kawasaki Heavy Industries factory in Lincoln, NE. Outside the factory, on their test tracks, are new M9 carbodies as part of an order of 188 cars for the Long Island Railroad in New York state. Kawasaki is also finishing their order of WMATA 7000 series metro cars that have not yet been delivered.

[@geraldgreen5371]

Cool, nice to see it from the ground floor.., now if we can get a DISCOVERY PROGRAM ON CONSTRUCTION & manufacturing..

[@robertmason7553]

I deliver sheet metal to Kawasaki. They also build DC's Metro trains.

[@ENTERTAINMENT35]

Cool!!... BUT for me it's always going to be LONG LIVE THE M1's AND M3's

[@EthanF175]

YES!

[@TheFourFoot]

Yeah the M1’s are beautiful!

[@galaxyrailfanning7860]

Nice video! Are there anymore CDOT M8s in production right now? If so then will they be shipped by train?

[@TheFourFoot]

Thanks a lot! I didn't think there were any, so I went up and checked. Here's two more number 9422 and 9423! I believe they will be shipped by UP and possibly CSX, but that's just a guess. ruclips.net/video/QZ448uVGxK0/видео.html

[@galaxyrailfanning7860]

The Four Foot- Woah that’s awesome!

[@MarkBustos2]

The order for M9 is 92 for base order. In total it should be around 600 M9 for the Long Island Rail Road and Metro North Railroad. This order will replace the older M3 and add more trains to Grand Central Station for LIRR and Penn Station (NY) for Metro North's Hudson Line.

[@phillipmccalla9210]

4 foot when the M9 train rolls out the M9 trains going to have a yellow front is going and it's not going to be having that side detail anymore

[@coffeecat4506]

Phillip Mccalla I thought they were keeping the ugly “cuomo colors”?

[@phillipmccalla9210]

Nope big nope

[@coffeecat4506]

Phillip Mccalla good, it’ll be cool to see those classic yellow LIRR colors

[@leecornwell5632]

​@@coffeecat4506The M9S are definitely gonna be in blue 🔵 and white and silver. Not yellow 💛. The M9S and the M9AS for metro North is gonna have the same design.

[@chrisonthedot]

Looks so out of place out there in Nebraska 😂

[@urbsinhorto]

These new M9s are one big step backward in terms of quality aesthetic design. Hard to imagine any effort at all went into the front ends... The light cluster position flipped like that is just all wrong. Very dissapointing. I'm sure they are nice in every other way but man alive it seems like American rail rolling stock industrial design just keeps getting worse not better. Maybe im just grumpy.

[@TheFourFoot]

Yeah I’m definitely not a fan of the inter-car barriers. In my opinion it’s been downhill since the M1’s lol