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The AB Standard was a New York City Subway car class built by the American Car and Foundry Company and Pressed Steel Car Company between 1914 and 1924. It ran under the operation of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) and its successors, which included the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), the New York City Board of Transportation, and the New York City Transit Authority ...
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 ...
nycsubway.org New York City Subway Cars; Pre-Unification Cars (BMT) Pre-Unification Cars (IRT) R-Type Cars 1932 to 1987; R-Type Cars 1999 to Present (NTT) 'R' Type Roster Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (includes non-train contracts) Roster of Rolling Stock Contracts; NYCTA Work Cars 2013; Korman, Joe (December 4, 2017 ...
Cars 197, 659, 1227, 1349 and 1362 are located at the Shore Line Trolley Museum. Car 1365 is on static display at the St. Louis Museum of Transportation. Cars 1273, 1404 and 1407 are operational at the New York Transit Museum. BMT Elevated Instruction car 999 is preserved at the Shore Line Trolley Museum. Q-type cars 1602A and 1612C have been ...
The R32 was a New York City Subway car model built by the Budd Company from 1964 to 1965 for the IND/BMT B Division.A total of 600 R32s were built, numbered 3350–3949, though some cars were re-numbered.
These cars consisted of a variety of equipment used on the BRT and later BMT. Some cars were inherited from steam railroads that became part of the BRT, while others were built new for the BRT as late as 1907. In 1913, the BRT introduced an advanced steel car design for subway service (the AB Standard), thus ending BU cars' production.
The R46 is a New York City Subway car model that was built by the Pullman Standard Company from 1975 to 1978 for the IND/BMT B Division. They replaced all remaining R1–9 fleet cars and General Electric-powered R16s, and some R10s. The R46 order initially consisted of 754 single cars, each 75 feet (23 m) long, and was the largest single order ...
The R16 was a New York City Subway car model built by the American Car and Foundry Company from 1954 to 1955 for the IND/BMT B Division. A total of 200 cars were built, arranged as single units. Two versions were manufactured: Westinghouse (WH)-powered cars and General Electric (GE)-powered cars. The first R16s entered service on January 10, 1955.