Editing Newark Light Rail (section)

== Rolling stock ==

The Newark Light Rail system uses a new-model vehicle built by [[Kinki Sharyo]] of Japan. This model is the same one used by the [[Hudson-Bergen Light Rail]] system, although the ones used on the Newark Light Rail were built with slight modifications to the trucks and wheels due to the different rails used. Like the HBLR vehicles, the NLR vehicle is a double-articulated vehicle with three sections. Each of the two end sections has an operator's cab at the far end, thus eliminating the need for the vehicle to turn itself around physically in order to reverse direction. Each end section also has seating for 16 passengers on an upper level, and seating for 13 passengers on the lower level, including one special [[Folding seat|fold-down seat]] next to an empty space that a passenger using a wheelchair may use. With these two sections, and a middle section that seats ten passengers (five on each side), the vehicle can comfortably accommodate 68 seated passengers and two wheelchairs. An additional 122 passengers could stand in the vehicle, if necessary. Vehicles can be coupled into two-unit sets. A contract to expand 10 of the 20 LRVs assigned to the Newark Light Rail system for the purpose of increasing passenger capacity was approved on July 9, 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/passenger/light-rail/njt-oks-lrv-add-ons.html?channel=Array|title=NJT OKs LRV add-ons – Railway Age|author=Douglas John Bowen|work=railwayage.com|date=July 9, 2014}}</ref>

The [[Seashore Trolley Museum]] in Kennebunkport, ME acquired PCC #5 in 2011.<ref>[http://www.trolleymuseum.org/collection/browse.php?id=00005SNJ Seashore Trolley Museum: Browse the Collection]. Trolleymuseum.org. Retrieved on June 23, 2014.</ref> The car represents the first piece of NJT rolling stock in the museum's collection. The car is currently undergoing restoration and rehabilitation work so that it may operate on the museum's {{frac|1|1|2}}-mile demonstration railway. Car #5 joins the museum's already-extensive collection of PCC cars from numerous cities, including [[Green Line (MBTA)|Boston]], [[Pittsburgh Railways|Pittsburgh]], [[Dallas Area Rapid Transit#Precursor agencies|Dallas]], San Francisco, [[SEPTA|Philadelphia]], Washington, D.C., and Kansas CIty.