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A BU car on display at the New York Transit Museum Interior of a BU car. BU cars is the generic term for BRT elevated gate cars used on predecessor lines of the New York City Subway system. Various orders of these cars were built by the Osgood-Bradley, Brill, Cincinnati, Laconia, Pullman, Gilbert & Bush, Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wason, Pressed ...
The New York City Subway is a large rapid transit system and has a large fleet of electric multiple unit rolling stock. As of September 2024, the New York City Subway has 6712 cars on the roster. The system maintains two separate fleets of passenger cars: one for the A Division (numbered) routes, the other for the B Division (lettered) routes ...
Evolution of New York City subways: An illustrated history of New York City's transit cars, 1867–1997. New York Transit Museum Press, New York, 1997. ISBN 978-0-9637492-8-4. Kramer, Frederick A. Building the Independent Subway. Quadrant Press, Inc.; New York, 1990. ISBN 0-915276-50-X; Cudahy, Brian J. Under the Sidewalks of New York: The ...
R. R1 (New York City Subway car) R1–9 fleet; R4 (New York City Subway car) R6 (New York City Subway car) R7 (New York City Subway car) R8A (New York City Subway car)
Otto Kuhler's patent of subway car filed in 1947 (copied by R11) On June 19, 1947, the city announced the details of the $1,158,000 R11 subway car order. The equipment in the subway car was installed by Westinghouse Electric. [1] The full size of the R11 contract was 400 new subway cars, intended to provide service on the planned Second Avenue ...
The group’s current 150 New York City members will start their patrols on trains at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station. Last week’s arson victim, a woman who has still not been ...
Today, only two Q-type cars are preserved: Car 1602A (ex-BU 1410) is preserved at the Trolley Museum of New York. [5] It is awaiting restoration. Car 1612C (ex-BU 1417) is preserved at the New York Transit Museum. This car was previously used as a work car before it was restored to its original condition for the museum collection in 1979.
A man wanted for questioning in the death of a woman set ablaze on a subway train is seen in a combination of still images from surveillance video in New York City on Dec. 22, 2024.