R42 (New York City Subway car) - Wikipedia
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 …
R-42 (St. Louis Car) - nycsubway.org
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 …
NYC Subway: The Short-Lived Return of the R42 Subway Cars (RIP R42)
2020年2月17日 · The R42 was a subway car made by St. Louis Car Company in 1969 for service on the NYC subway. They have served almost every B-Division line over the 40 years until …
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 …
R-42 Farewell Trip - New York Transit Museum
Each R-42 car weighs more than 70,000 lbs! Along with the R-32, the R-42 is the only post-war car to reach the 50-year service mark. The R-42s were the first fleet of cars to be entirely …
Chapter 9, New Cars for the Independent - nycsubway.org
Lots of R42 cars were assigned to all districts of the "B" Division thereby affording at least a few air conditioned trains on nearly all lines of that division. At this time, on the "A" Division, or IRT, …
R42 (New York City Subway car) - Simple English Wikipedia, the …
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 …
R42 (New York City Subway car) - Detailed Pedia
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 …
FAREWELL R-42 SUBWAY CARS - Forgotten New York
2020年2月10日 · The MTA’s last examples of the R-42 subway car, first manufactured and entering service in 1969, are finally being shuttled off to the MTA Retirement Village (making …
Chapter 10, The Space Age on Rails - nycsubway.org
If the R44 was a disaster mechanically and impractical in many ways at least they were an effort to make travel more attractive on the system and were a change from the cold efficiency of …