The R68 is a B Division New York City Subway car order consisting of 425 cars built by the Westinghouse-Amrail Company (aka Francorail), a joint venture of Westinghouse, ANF Industrie, Jeumont Schneider, and Alsthom. The cars were built in France from 1986 to 1988 and shipped through New York Harbor.

Two R-68 trains holding down D and Q service at Cortelyou Road on the BMT Brighton Line. Photo by David Pirmann, April 1997. Coupling Arrangement: Most are coupled in four car sets. Single cars in coupled sets are used on the Franklin Shuttle. Numbering: "A" or leading cars are even-numbered, and "B" cars are odd-numbered.

The R68 is a B Division New York City Subway car order consisting of 425 cars built by the Westinghouse-Amrail Company (aka Francorail), a joint venture of Westinghouse, ANF Industrie, Jeumont Schneider, and Alsthom. The cars were built in France from 1986 to 1988 and shipped through New York Harbor.

The R68A is a B Division New York City Subway car order consisting of 200 cars built between 1988 and 1989 by Kawasaki Railcar Company in Kobe, Japan, with final assembly done at the Kawasaki plant in Yonkers, New York. [5]

2009年7月21日 · The R68 has streamlines that are not surrounded by borders on the exterior shell while the R68A does. Also the R68As sides taper off when it meets the bottom half of the ends while the R68 makes full contact with the bottom half of the nose without tapering off.

2023年6月9日 · You need 755 60 foot R268s to replace the entire R68 fleet, They'll probably add an additional 45 cars for fleet expansion totaling up to 800 cars. Makes me think the Base would be at least 400 cars with the option order being 400 cars.

2021年6月2日 · With the R68s, they’re from Westinghouse, Jeumont Schneider & Alstom numbered 2500 and up. The R68As are also from Kawasaki and are numbered starting with 5001. Among the R68/R68a cars, inside cab doors are different (swing vs. pocket door).

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The R68 is a B Division New York City Subway car order consisting of 425 cars built by the Westinghouse-Amrail Company (aka Francorail ), a joint venture of Westinghouse, ANF Industrie, Jeumont Schneider, and Alsthom. The cars were built in France from 1986 to 1988 and shipped through New York Harbor.

2019年7月18日 · There's an old video from around the late 80's which actually showed an R68 running on the briefly. In a slightly more recent time around 2017, an R68A randomly appeared on the out of nowhere. Also the and swapped happened way before the R68's were introduced iirc.