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With the opening of the 1964 New York World's Fair, trains were lengthened to eleven cars. [20] [21] In 1981, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) listed the station among the 69 most deteriorated stations in the subway system. [22] A renovation of the 82nd Street station was funded as part of the MTA's 1980–1984 capital plan. [23]
The New York City Subway system differs from other railroad chaining systems in that it uses the engineer's chain of 100 feet (30.48 m) rather than the surveyor's chain of 66 feet (20.12 m). Chaining is used in the New York City Subway system in conjunction with train radios, in order to ascertain a train's location on a given line. [33]
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.
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 ...
New York City mayor John Francis Hylan's original plans for the Independent Subway System (IND), proposed in 1922, included building over 100 miles (160 km) of new lines and taking over nearly 100 miles (160 km) of existing lines, which would compete with the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), the two major subway operators of the time.
The Woodlawn station (sometimes called Woodlawn–Jerome Avenue station) is the northern terminal of the New York City Subway's IRT Jerome Avenue Line.The station is located at the intersection of Bainbridge and Jerome Avenues, outside Woodlawn Cemetery.
The R4 was a New York City Subway car model built from 1932 to 1933 by the ... (renumbered 1398), made its final trip on the J on ... New York Transit Museum ...
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 ...