The R40 was a New York City Subway car model built by the St. Louis Car Company from 1967 to 1969 for the IND / BMT B Division. There were 400 cars in the R40 fleet, arranged in married pairs.

2009年8月9日 · Yes. The R40a's are a second sub order for the R40, the R40(M) is much more similar to the R42 than the original R40. The layout of certain things is more more similar between R40a and R42. The modified R40a are all most indistinguishable from the R42 aside from the outer body skin which has the telltail ribbing and c curve between the 2 angles.

R-40 car 4425 mid-consist on the "A" line at 190th Street/Overlook Terrace. Photo by David Pirmann, April 2009. A/C as built? Coupling/Numbering Arrangement: All married pairs. The futuristic front end of the R-40 cars, as delivered, was designed by Raymond Loewy.

The R40 was a New York City Subway car model built by the St. Louis Car Company from 1967 to 1969 for the IND / BMT B Division. There were 400 cars in the R40 fleet, arranged in married pairs.

2015年1月8日 · The R-40s and R-40Ms continued to run on various lines until 2009 when the last set was retired from the A train. A pair of them is on display in the NYC Transit Museum at Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn.

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2009年7月1日 · Thanks, but just curious, is there enough R40A/R42s to cover the (V)ictor? Or is there half R46 and R40A/42s running? Nice catch! There should be they only got 8 or 10 trains on the whole line. I am no longer working the Line so I can't tell you what is there but I would have been having fun if they only did this a few weeks earlier.

The R40A is similar to the R40, but R40A was originally delivered with air conditioning units. As a result of the air conditioning, the standee poles are arranged in diagonal patterns rather than the straight line of the R40. The R40A slant version was the last 100 cars to be built with the end slant (numbers 4350-4449).

Two versions of the R40 were manufactured: the original 200-car R40 order built in 1967–1968, and the supplementary 200-car R40A order built in 1968–1969. The 200 original R40s and the first 100 R40As were unique for their futuristic 10-degree slanted end (designed by the firm Raymond Loewy and Associates , and William Snaith Inc.) and were ...

The R40A was a New York City Subway car model built from 1968 to 1969 by the St. Louis Car Company in Missouri for the IND/BMT B Division. The order was a continuation of the R40 cars, and contained two forms or body types: a slant-ended version identical to the original R40 fleet (nicknamed the R40 Slant or R40S), and a straight-ended (or "modified") version designed by Sundberg-Ferar ...