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1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The R62A is a New York City Subway car model built between 1984 and 1987 by Bombardier Transportation for the A Division. The cars were built in La Pocatière, Quebec, with final assembly done in Auburn, New York and Barre, Vermont, under a license from Kawasaki Heavy Industries, manufacturer of the previous ...
Aug 6, 2001 · "The trucks [the wheels of the cars] weigh between 18,000 and 20,000 pounds each, and there are two of those per subway car," says Mike Zacchea, assistant chief operations officer at New York City ...
Feb 15, 2017 · All prototype R17 subway cars were powered. Most dimensions were within scale inches of drawings in New York Subways: an Illustrated History of New York City’s Transit Cars, by Gene Sansome (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). The car width scales about 101⁄2″ too wide and the truck center-to-center spacing is nearly 3 scale feet too ...
4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The R160 is a class of New Technology Train subway cars built for the New York City Subway 's B Division. Entering service between 2006 and 2010, they replaced all R38, R40, and NYCT -operated R44 cars, and most R32 and R42 cars. The R160s are very similar to the earlier R143s and later R179s.
The R12 was the first subway car ordered by the City of New York for the IRT following the city's takeover of the IRT and BMT subways. The R12s were similar to the R10s but built to accommodate the IRT's specifications. The R12s entered service on the Flushing Line during the summer of 1948. Following the delivery of the R33WF and R36WF fleets ...
The reef comprises 714 Redbird (R26–R36 series) New York City Subway cars dumped by Weeks Marine, 86 retired tanks and armored personnel carriers, eight tugboats and barges, and 3,000 tons of ballasted truck tires. From 2001 to 2008, within the vicinity of the reef, the amount of marine food per square foot has increased 400 times.
New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) anti-Sponsor: Environmental group Clean Ocean Action lobbied aggressively and almost successfully to prevent the use of these subway cars as artificial reefs in New Jersey, resulting in most of the cars going to other states. GPS: too many to list, and all gone anyway Depth: Depths vary ...
