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The Standard Lo-V (an abbreviation for “Low-Voltage car”) was a New York City Subway car type built from 1916 to 1925 by the Pressed Steel Car Company, American Car and Foundry, and Pullman Company for the IRT.
Discussions between the city and the New York City Transit Authority which included a threat of laying off the entire Transit Police Department, produced a memorandum of understanding, and at 12:01 AM on April 2, 1995, the NYC Transit Police was consolidated with the New York City Police Department to become a new bureau within the NYPD called ...
The final train of R17s ran on February 29, 1988, in the 42nd St. Shuttle service. The majority of the remainder of the fleet was scrapped, but some R17 cars were saved for various purposes throughout the New York City Subway system, including: Car 6609 – restored in 1976 and displayed at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn.
October 20, 2021. Droves of city government retirees are preparing to pay thousands annually to keep their existing health insurance rather than taking a chance on a new cost-cutting plan.
The GCRTA was established on December 30, 1974, [7] and on September 5, 1975 assumed control of the Cleveland Transit System, which operated the heavy rail line from Windermere to Cleveland Hopkins Airport and the local bus systems, and Shaker Heights Rapid Transit (the descendant of a separate streetcar system formed by the Van Sweringen brothers to serve their Shaker Heights development ...
The R36s were numbered 9346–9769. They were the last entirely LAHT bodied (non-stainless steel) cars built for the New York City Subway. Cars 9346–9523 and 9558–9769 were specifically purchased for service on the IRT Flushing Line (7 and 7d trains), which was the closest line to the 1964 New York World's Fair.
They were designed to test features that would be implemented on future mass-production New Tech Train orders. First announced in 1989, the R110As entered service on June 15, 1993, on the 2 service. They continued to run until the spring of 1998, when they were pulled out of service due to brake problems and fire damage. [1]
In 1984, following a fire in a Model 870 NYCTA bus number 411, David L. Gunn, on only his fifth day on the job with the MTA, ordered the Grumman 870 fleet within New York City off the road for the final time (the units for MSBA built in 1981, owned by Nassau County (NY), as well as the units built for the five private companies in the Borough ...