Rail fleet report, November 2026: overhauls coming due and rail bids

Updated Nov 6, 2026

Every month Consist updates its passenger rail fleet data and counts the rail bids US and Canadian agencies posted. Here is what the November 2026 numbers show.

26 fleets come due for a midlife overhaul in 2027

Our estimates put 26 passenger rail fleets, 2,303 cars in all, at their midlife overhaul in 2027. The largest:

• New York City Subway's Alstom R160, 1,662 cars built 2007: New York City Subway
• NJ Transit Rail's Alstom MultiLevel I, 329 cars built 2007: NJ Transit Rail
• Washington Metro's Alstom 6000-series, 102 cars built 2007: Washington Metro
• GO Transit rail's Wabtec (MotivePower) MP40PH-3C / MP54AC, 90 cars built 2007: GO Transit rail
• FrontRunner's Alstom BiLevel, 20 cars built 2007: FrontRunner

The full five-year list is on Rail car midlife overhauls coming due.

The oldest fleets still in service

The oldest passenger rail fleet of five or more cars still running is Muni Metro's ACCAIO, built in 1928. The next oldest:

• El Paso Streetcar's St. Louis Car PCC (restored), built 1936, 6 cars
• Muni Metro's St. Louis Car PCC (F-line), built 1946, 13 cars
• Muni Metro's St. Louis Car PCC (F-line), built 1948, 11 cars
• Piedmont, Carolinian's Budd (rebuilt) NCDOT railcars, built 1950, 20 cars

See the top 50 on Oldest passenger rail fleets in the US and Canada.

Rail bids in the last 30 days

Agencies posted 60 rail-relevant procurement notices in the 30 days to November 6. The busiest categories were parts supply (21), track and right of way (8), stations, yards and facilities (8), and the busiest states and provinces were PA (15), ON (12), national (8).

Category and state counts, with recent examples, are on Rail and transit bids this month.

About these numbers

Fleet data start from the FTA National Transit Database and are extended with agency documents and Consist research; overhaul years are estimates from build or rebuild year, car type and how hard each fleet works. See Data and methodology. You may quote these figures with a link to this page.