The R27 was a New York City Subway car model built by the St. Louis Car Company from 1960 to 1961 for the IND/BMT B Division. A total of 230 cars were built, arranged in married pairs. Two versions were manufactured: Westinghouse (WH)-powered cars and General Electric (GE)-powered cars. The first R27s entered service on November 15, 1960.

Coupling/Numbering Arrangement: All married pairs. The last of the R-30 cars were retired from passenger service in 1993. The Electric Railroaders' Association sponsored a Farewell to the R-30 fan trip. There are 861 photos available. Equipped early …

Thru service to Jamaica is now history. A four car train of graffiti-ridden R27s runs southbound between Broadway Junction and Atlantic Ave. on the 14th St-Canarsie line. The date is April 6, 1983.

Here's another one, R27s and R30s this time. It's a lot shorter than usual since these didn't run for long. Thanks to nycsubway.org for their extensive photo gallery and to all the amazing...

2013年10月23日 · Today, history was made in which the last remaining R27 subway car, car number 8145 was removed from NYCT property - some 23 years after 229 of its sister cars were removed and scrapped. 8145 did her last years as a School Car, first at 36th Street Yard in the 1990s, and then later at Pitkin Yard...

The R27 was a New York City Subway car model built by the St. Louis Car Company from 1960 to 1961 for the IND/BMT B Division. A total of 230 cars were built, arranged in married pair s. Two versions were manufactured: Westinghouse (WH)-powered cars …

2009年2月10日 · The R27/R30/R30A retired because they were in bad shape/poor condition and it had no AC and they were replaced by the R68/R68A. When the R44/R46 GOH was over in 1992 then the R30 retired in 1993 since the R68/R68A were replacing them.

With the arrival of new R27 cars on the division most of the nonrebuilt "steels" were retired along with some nonstandard types of cars. Many older cars were retired along with the trailers, and some other newer series that were not rebuilt.

The R27 was a New York City Subway car built by the St. Louis Car Company for the New York City Transit Authority in 1960 and 1961. The R27s were a continuation of the R16 style, except for the use of IRT R26 style pink hard fiberglass all longitudinal seating instead of the mixed combination seating found on the older R16s.

2013年10月23日 · On a thread pertaining specifically to the scrapping of two cars that haven't been in passenger service since the '90s. Nobody was talking about just sending these old and damaged cars back into service. Most of the discussion was about why they weren't added to the museum fleet and fixed up so they could run like the Low-Vs or the Arnines.