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The longest-lasting R32s were in service for almost 58 years, currently the longest such service life in New York City rapid transit operations. [45] They were the last cars built for the New York City Transit Authority – prior to its merger with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1968 – to remain in service. The R32s had survived ...
The New York City Subway is a heavy-rail public transit system serving four of the five boroughs of New York City. The present New York City Subway system inherited the systems of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND). New York City has owned the IND ...
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 Story of the Greatest Subway System in the World, 2nd Revised Edition. Fordham University Press, New York ...
3005 – used as a training car at P.S. 248, the New York City Transit Learning Center, since July 15, 2004. This car replaced R16 6452. 3008 – spotted in late August 2015 near FDNY's Randall's Island training facility.
“The opening of the Dey Street connection to the Fulton Center will provide PATH riders and visitors a direct underground connection to NYC Transit Subway 2,3,4,5, A,C,J,Z and R lines, and in ...
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.
The Long Island Rail Road will operate 12 extra trains departing Penn Station from 12:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 24. The extra service will include four extra trains on the Babylon ...
The R44 is a New York City Subway car model built by the St. Louis Car Company from 1971 to 1973 for the B Division and the Staten Island Railway (SIR). The cars replaced many R1–9 series cars, and all remaining 1925 Standard Steel built SIRTOA ME-1 trains, providing Staten Island with a new fleet of railcars.