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Single cars; even numbered cars ("A" cars) have single full-width cabs, odd numbered cars ("B" cars) have blind ends. New York City Subway car numbers were originally 100–387 and renumbered 5202–5479. New York City Subway cars retired. Staten Island Railway cars currently being replaced. R46: 1975–1978 Pullman: 5482–6207 (4-car sets ...
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)
The Zephyr holds the title of being the first stainless steel subway car in the city, preceding the R32 – the first bulk order of stainless-steel cars in New York City Subway history – by thirty years. Prior to the R32, Budd went on to build the R11 prototypes in 1949. Unlike the other prototypes and the production units, the Zephyr was ...
The R1 was the first New York City Subway car type built for the Independent Subway System (IND). 300 cars were manufactured between 1930 and 1931 by the American Car and Foundry Company, numbered 100 through 399, all arranged as single units.
The R211 is a class of New Technology Train (NTT) subway cars built for the New York City Transit Authority.Being built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing for the B Division of the New York City Subway and for the Staten Island Railway (SIR), they will replace two aging subway car models: all R44 cars on the SIR, plus all R46 and some R68 subway cars.
The R62 in particular was the first New York City Subway car class built by a foreign manufacturer. [240] These were all delivered between 1983 and 1989. The R10, R14, R16, R17, R21, and R22 car classes all were retired with the deliveries of the R62/As and R68/As.
Some R30 cars were saved for various purposes throughout the New York City Subway system. The full list includes: 8429 and 8558 – converted to Rail Adhesion Cars, based at Coney Island Yard and Pitkin Yard, respectively. 8506 – preserved at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn, New York since 1975 after an accident wrecked its mate. This ...