Tokyu Car Corporation
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Tokyu Car Corporation (東急車輛製造 Tokyū Sharyō-seizō?) is a manufacturer of heavy rail cars in Japan. The company is based in Kanazawa Ward, Yokohama, Japan, and a member of Tokyu Group: Tokyu Corporation. A licencee under Budd Company for stainless steel body manufacturing of Tokyu Series 7000.
[edit] Products
Tokyu manufacturers railway rolling stock and special duty motor vehicles (dump trucks, trailers and vans).
- Metro Rail LRV
- Boston LRV (with Boeing)
- Iarnród Éireann DART Dublin Area Rapid Transit fleet expansion EMU rail cars. (Dublin) with Mitsui (lead contractor)
- Iarnród Éireann Arrow Commuter, both original and fleet expansion DMU rail cars. (Operate on Commuter routes in Cork and Dublin) with Mitsui (lead contractor)
- Iarnród Éireann Intercity national fleet replacement. Bogie supplier for high spec. DMUs operating at 100mph (Rolling out in 2007 to 2009, to operate services on all Irish Rail routes, except the Cork-Dublin Express and the Dublin-Belfast Enterprise) - with Mitsui (lead contractor), Rotem (car builder) and MTU Friedrichshafen (engine)
- Metro-North Commuter Railroad M-4 EMU car for New Haven Line (1988)
- Shinkansen EMU Cars
- JR East E231 series EMU rail cars
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151 cars with Nippon Sharyo and Kinki Sharyo
- Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Red Line heavy rail cars
- LRV cars for Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority's Metro Rail operations.
[edit] Organization
Management of Tokyu consist of:
- Chairman - Takahisa Tozawa
- President - Takeo Momose
- Vice President - Yasuo Yasujima
- Senior Managing Director - Toshihiro Maruko
- Senior Managing Director - Masayuki Takanashi
