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The R46 order initially consisted of 754 single cars, each 75 feet (23 m) long, and was the largest single order of passenger cars in United States railroad history at the point of the fleet's completion. The R46 was the second order of 75-foot cars to be ordered for the New York City Subway, after the R44s.
R46: Passenger cars 5482–6258 [17] Pullman 1975–1978 In service: R47 45-47-ton diesel-electric locomotives 63–70, N1–N2 General Electric 1975 In service: R48 Rail derrick cars & flat cars C212–C213 (rail derrick cars) F224–F225 (flat cars) Maxson Corp 1977 Retired R49 Flat cars F165–F184 1972 In service: R50: Signal supply cars
The car types, which were part of the MTA NYCT GOH program, are the IRT Redbirds (R26, R28, R29, R33, R33S, R36), as well as IND/BMT cars (R30 GE, R32, R38, R40, R40A, R42, R44, and R46). These cars were rebuilt between 1985 and 1993. Some cars in various classes from R10 to R46 were also given lighter overhauls during this period.
The R211 is a class of New Technology Train (NTT) subway cars built for the New York City Transit Authority.Being built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing for the B Division of the New York City Subway and for the Staten Island Railway (SIR), they will replace two aging subway car models: all R44 cars on the SIR, plus all R46 and some R68 subway cars.
The interior side route & destination rollsign on the W Exterior fixed side signage dedicated to the Franklin Avenue Shuttle. The R68 was the third R-type contract to be built with 75-foot (22.86 m) cars (the previous two being the R44 and R46), which have more room for sitting and standing passengers per car than the 60-foot (18.29 m) cars that were used previously and afterward.
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Please Note; The R46's were withdrawn from the (D) line in 1981, and this was due to the vibration of the original Rockwell HPT-2 trucks which were causing a series of low frequency thumps, or vibrations along the BMT Brighton Lines right of way, which were causing the concrete foundations of many of the buildings and houses built along the ...
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