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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.
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 ...
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 ...
The R42 was a New York City Subway car model built by the St. Louis Car Company between 1969 and 1970 for the IND/BMT B Division. There were 400 cars in the R42 fleet, numbered 4550–4949. It was the last 60-foot (18.29 m) B Division car built for the New York City Subway until the R143 in 2001, and the last car model class to be built in ...
The R27 was a New York City Subway car model built by the St. Louis Car Company from 1960 to 1961 for the IND/BMT B Division. A total of 230 cars were built, arranged in married pairs. Two versions were manufactured: Westinghouse (WH)-powered cars and General Electric (GE)-powered cars. The first R27s entered service on November 15, 1960.
This four-car set included cars 8463, 8510, 8558, and 8569, which were filmed running on New York City Transit property. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In the 1995 film Die Hard with a Vengeance , a set of GE R30s, which were the same cars use for Money Train (8294, 8298, 8394–8395, 8397, and 8408) was used for the scene when the rear car of a Brooklyn-bound 3 ...
New York City Subway: Specifications; Car body construction: Stainless steel sides with carbon steel chassis and underframes, fiberglass A-end bonnet: Car length: 60 ft 2.5 in (18.35 m) Width: 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m) Height: 12 ft 1.625 in (3.70 m) Platform height: 3 ft 9.125 in (1.15 m) Doors: 8 sets of 50 inch wide side doors per car: Maximum speed
The R29 was a New York City Subway car model built by the St. Louis Car Company in 1962 for the IRT A Division. A total of 236 cars were built, arranged in married pairs. The R29s entered service on April 28, 1962, and received air conditioning by 1982. The fleet was rebuilt by Morrison–Knudsen between 1985 and 1987.