User:Jaymyang/Light Economy-Car（LE-Car）

LE-Car（エルイーカー，Light Economy-Car was a series of railbus developed and built by Subaru for railways with low volume of service in Japan.

LE-DC (Light Economy-Diesel Car) was developed based on LE-Car.

在1982年，南部縱貫鐵道的 Kiha 10 型柴油客車已經出廠 20 年（1962 年製）；富士重工為了客運量低下的路線，自主開發了 LE-Car. 雖然針對鐵路車輛新設計了底盤，但11.6公尺長的車體則是來於同公司製造的公路客車R13型和R13型B型，引擎則採用日野汽車製造的公路客車用柴油發動機. In 1982, Subaru developed a railbus based on a regular bus for low-volume railways in Japan. The 11.6 meters long body and engine were the same as bus (type R13 and type R13B), but the chassis was a new design with only two axiles. But each axile was actually a specially-designed single-axile bogie, which improved the ability of passing curves and switches.

The power from the Hino diesel engine was attached to a hydraulic converter, and the railbus was capable of multiple control.