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The A Division, also known as the IRT Division, [2] is a division of the New York City Subway, consisting of the lines operated with services designated by numbers (1 ...
The R33s were numbered 8806–9305. The cars were referred to as R33MLs (R33 Main Line) to distinguish them from the R33Ss.. The R33s are very similar in appearance to the previous R26s, R28s, and R29s, but like the R29s and unlike the R26s and R28s, the R33s were built by the St. Louis Car Company instead of American Car and Foundry, and permanently paired with link bars (instead of couplers).
The Broadway Junction station is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the elevated BMT Canarsie Line and BMT Jamaica Line, and the underground IND Fulton Street Line.
The ten GE cars were retired first in the summer of 2007. The Phase II R32s followed a year later, from March 2008 until October 13, 2008. A handful of Phase I R32s were retired from early 2009 until November 2009, when it was decided to retire the NYCT R44s instead.
The 165th Street Bus Terminal, also known as Jamaica Bus Terminal, [1] [4] the Long Island Bus Terminal [5] (the name emblazoned on the entranceway's red tiles), Jamaica−165th Street Terminal (as signed on buses towards the terminal), or simply 165th Street Terminal, is a major bus terminal in Jamaica, Queens.
The 6 Lexington Avenue Local and <6> Pelham Bay Park Express [3] are two rapid transit services in the A Division of the New York City Subway.Their route emblems, or "bullets", are colored forest green since they use the IRT Lexington Avenue Line in Manhattan. [4]
The MTA was in the process of creating the first technologically-advanced subway car since the R44 in the early 1970s. [11] In order to avoid the aforementioned problem, in 1989, the MTA awarded contracts for two prototype test trains, one of which was the R110A (contract R130) for the A Division built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries , and the ...
The NYCT R44s were gradually phased out from December 18, 2009 [4] until September 16, 2010, when the last train made its final trips on the A and C. After retirement, the NYCT R44s were mothballed and placed into storage system-wide. [26] From May 2012 until summer 2013, most of the NYCT R44s were scrapped at Sims Metal Management.