M3
The M3 is an electric unit from the United States in Train Sim World. It comes with 1 route, and another DLC brings it to 3 more.
Picture: LIRR M3 EMU, Dovetail Games.
Where you can drive it
Comes with
With another DLC
Own the route and one of the DLCs named after it, and you can drive it there.
In the game
Names in Dovetail's lists: M3A, M3 LIRR.
In these DLCs: Harlem Line: Grand Central Terminal - North White Plains, LIRR M3 EMU.
The real thing
The M1 and M3 are two similar series of electric multiple unit cars built by the Budd Company for the Long Island Rail Road and the railroads before Metro-North. The M3 cars date from the mid-1980s.
- Built by: Budd Company (Wikipedia)
- Built: M1/M1A: 1968–1973, M3/M3A: 1984–1986 (Wikipedia)
- Number built: 1264, M1: 770, M1A: 178, M3: 174, M3A: 142 (Wikipedia)
- In service: M1: 1968, M1A: 1971, M3: 1984, M3A: 1984 (Wikipedia)
- Operators: Long Island Rail Road, Penn Central, Conrail, Metro-North Railroad (Wikipedia)
- Top speed: 100 mph (161 km/h) design, 80 mph (129 km/h) service (Wikipedia)
- Power: M1/M1A: 592 hp (441 kW), M3/M3A: 640 hp (477 kW) (Wikipedia)
- Wheel arrangement: Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′ (Wikipedia)
- Formation: Married Pair (Wikipedia)
- Safety systems: ATC (ATO) and Pulse code cab signaling (Wikipedia)
Photo: AEMoreira042281, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
From the English Wikipedia article M1/M3 (railcar) and Wikidata.
Sources. Dovetail's public DLC database and Steam store pages; English Wikipedia and Wikidata for the real train.