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The Staten Island Railway (SIR) is a railroad line in the New York City borough of Staten Island.It is owned by the Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority (SIRTOA), a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and operated by the New York City Transit Authority Department of Subways.
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 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]
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.
Car G7486 at the 207th St Yard, awaiting scrapping Car 1R714 on display at the New York Transit Museum. Though a very dependable fleet, the R22s, being single units, were not rebuilt and instead replaced in the mid-1980s by the R62As. The last train made its final trip on December 30, 1987, on the 5 service with a solid consist of R21s. [2]
A 1996 Nova Bus RTS-06 (9174) on the Bx33 with a West Farms Depot sticker on it. MTA Regional Bus Operations operates local and express buses serving New York City in the United States out of 29 bus depots.
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]
A 1920 plan for expansion. On August 28, 1922, Mayor John Francis Hylan unveiled his own plans for the subway system, which was relatively small at the time. His plan included building over 100 miles (160 km) of new lines and taking over nearly 100 miles (160 km) of existing lines.