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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 ...
In June 1963, the New York City Transit Authority contracted with Budd for 600 IND/BMT cars (300 pairs) to replace older equipment (cars that had exceeded the TA's 35-year limit of age), including the BMT D-type Triplex articulated cars and some of the BMT Standards. At the time, this was the largest railcar order ever placed in the United ...
Yep - and East New York does a very good job doing minor repairs, and inspecting them, and if major repair work is needed, then it goes up to the 207 Street Main Overhaul Shop. The 100 R179's (3050-3149) assigned to the (J)/<Z> at East New York fared much better than the ones assigned to the (A) & (C) line.
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 ...
St. Louis Car Company built the R27 cars in 1960–1961, the R29 in 1962, the R30/A in 1961–1962, the R33 in 1962–1963, R33S single cars in late 1963, and the R36 in 1963–1964. The IRT cars provided main passenger service on the 2 , 4 , 5 , 6 , and 7 trains, while the B Division cars provided passenger service on various BMT and IND lines.
The BMT Bluebird Compartment Car stored in 36th Street Yard. The Bluebird, formally dubbed Compartment Car by its purchaser, the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), was an advanced design PCC streetcar-derived subway and elevated railway car built by the Clark Equipment Company from 1938 to 1940 [1] and used on the New York City Subway system from 1939 to 1955.
Originally consisting of 400 cars, only ten R11s were built, due to the cancellation of the Second Avenue Subway. The R11s were the first stainless steel R-type car built for the New York City Subway. The cars were mainly used as the newest technology prototype test train, introducing several new features that would be featured in later orders.
The R62A is a New York City Subway car model built between 1984 and 1987 by Bombardier Transportation for the A Division. The cars were built in La Pocatière, Quebec, with final assembly done in Auburn, New York and Barre, Vermont, under a license from Kawasaki Heavy Industries, manufacturer of the previous R62 order. A total of 825 cars were ...