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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]
On the morning of April 12, 2022, a mass shooting was committed on a northbound N train on the New York City Subway in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York, United States.At approximately 8:24 a.m. EDT, a 62-year-old Black nationalist [4] [5] Frank Robert James [2] put on a gas mask, threw two smoke grenades, and fired a handgun 33 times.
The R142A is the second order of new technology cars (NTTs) for the A Division of the New York City Subway. [8] These cars were built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries in the U.S. at Yonkers, New York and Lincoln, Nebraska, and in Japan at Kobe, Hyōgo. They replaced the Redbird trains, including the R26, R28, R29, R33, R33S, and R36. The R142A ...
As time wore on, heavy service took their toll on these cars. In 1996, New York City Transit Authority announced their plans to phase out the Redbirds with the R142 and R142A fleets, replacing the entire R26 fleet. Starting in May 2001, the R33s were displaced from the 2 to the 5 as the R142s entered service on the 2, gradually replacing the R26s.
The K Eighth Avenue Local, earlier the AA, was a rapid transit service of the New York City Subway.Its route bullet was colored blue on station signs, car rollsigns, and the official subway map since it ran on the IND Eighth Avenue Line.
Evolution of New York City subways: An illustrated history of New York City's transit cars, 1867–1997. 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 ...
The Q Second Avenue/Broadway Express/Brighton Local [3] is a rapid transit service in the B Division of the New York City Subway.Its route emblem, or "bullet", is colored yellow since it is a part of the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan.
The current R service is the successor to the original route 2 of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation. [5] [6] When 2 service began on January 15, 1916, it ran between Chambers Street on the BMT Nassau Street Line and 86th Street on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line, using the Manhattan Bridge to cross the East River, and running via Fourth Avenue local. [7]