Japanese trains may dominate Washington metro after Hitachi joins
All metro trains operating in the U.S. capital may be replaced by ones made by Japanese makers if the operator procures additional rolling stock from Hitachi Ltd., the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has said.
Since Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. s 7000-series already accounts for over half of the total trains, all the metro cars will be supplied by Japanese makers if the authority fully exercises its contract with Hitachi Rail Washington LLC to procure up to 800 rail cars. Photo taken in Maryland, the United States, in April 2021, shows a Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority subway train manufactured by Japan s Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo