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The R10 was a New York City Subway car model built by the American Car and Foundry Company from 1948 to 1949 for the IND/BMT B Division. A total of 400 cars were built, arranged as single units. Two versions were manufactured: Westinghouse (WH)-powered cars and General Electric (GE)-powered cars. The R10s were the first series of post-war ...
R10: 1803–1852, 3000–3349 [7] ... An illustrated history of New York City's transit cars, 1867–1997. New York Transit Museum Press, New York, 1997.
Quadrant Press, Inc.; New York, 1990. ISBN 0-915276-50-X; Sansone, Gene. 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. New York City Subway Cars James Clifford Greller Xplorer Press
The New York City Subway system has, for the most part, used block signaling since its first line opened, and many portions of the current signaling system were installed between the 1930s and 1960s. These signals work by preventing trains from entering a "block" occupied by another train. Typically, the blocks are 1,000 feet (300 m) long. [220]
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)
The city only tracks rat sightings above ground, and like Transit, relies on self-reported data. Just about 1,000 311 calls were made in January for vermin reports — most of which came out of ...
The R16s were numbered 6300–6499. When delivered, the R16s quickly became the new standard in car design for the New York City Transit Authority. Structurally and mechanically, they were the larger versions of the R15s and the R17s, and basically an improved version of the R10s, sharing the same exact dimensions. The only exception was that ...
Nicholas D’Agostino, 21, pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder in the caught-on-camera slaying of 20-year-old Yusef Staine, according to Newsday and court records.