R-42 car 4800 leads a J train inbound at Hewes Street on the BMT Jamaica Line. Photo by David Pirmann, August 2008. Coupling/Numbering Arrangement: All married pairs. The last of the R-42 fleet was officially retired on 12/30/2019, making two final trips on the "J" line. The final consist was 4798/9-4817/6-4830/1-4825/4."

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 ...

This is transit tech home of the R42 known mainly on the J line and many others before but catch them because they won't be there for long.

2011年1月24日 · r42: 60' length, corrugation in car siding are thicker and spaced further apart but still go halfway up the car, rollsign readouts are all covered by the same pane of glass (as visible from inside the car)

2020年2月10日 · Winner of five Oscars, including Best Picture, The French Connection is often remembered for what might be the most incredibly staged car chase on film, as Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle, played by Gene Hackman, desperately pursues drug smuggler Nicoli (Marcel Bozzuffi) aboard an out-of-control R-42 consist along the West End el branch by driving down Sti...

When first introduced, the R-42 replaced the Standard and R-1 subway cars, many of which had been in service since the subway lines they ran on had first opened—in the case of the Standard, as early as 1915. The R-42 was the first subway car to have built-in air conditioning.

2020年2月12日 · They were the first subway cars to be completely air conditioned, were used on more than a dozen lines, and each traveled many millions of miles. But the fleet dwindled over the years to just 50...

On February 12th, 2020, the MTA and the New York Transit Museum ran the 1969 St. Louis Car Company R42 along the Subway line. The trip started from Euclid Ave to Far Rockaway, then up to Inwood-207th St, and lastly back down to Euclid Avenue.

2018年5月16日 · The R-42 was the last subway car was among the last subway cars made by the St. Louis Car Company, which was in business from 1887 to 1974. It was also the first fleet that was completely air conditioned. Only two R-42 trainsets run on the Jamaica line as of 2018. The R-42s were overhauled in 1987-88 and mostly replaced by incoming R-160s in 2007.

R42 train car used for maintainence purposes running on the F line. The R42 was a train that was built between 1969 and 1970. There were 400 train cars in the fleet which were numbered from 4550-4949. The introduction of R179 caused the final R42s to be retired. [2]