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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sun Apr 8 12:43:46 2018 The New York City subway system is one of the largest in the world with nearly 6000 cars if we include work equipment. As a young railfan it seemed like Disneyland on rails. Even today there are always something new and endless surprises. There are many different type of equipment but even within a given car class there might one or several odd balls which did not quite fit in with the rest of the fleet. There were 150 R-15’s. Most of them looked alike but there was 6239 which had an experimental air-conditioning system installed in 1955. The a/c didn’t work in the long time and the car reverted back to standard fans, yet it was something to look out for. Ten R-17s, 6800-6809 were delivered with an a/c system as well. I f didn’t work either but the cars retained the red fan covers and the molded maroon hard bucket seats. Car 7715-7724 of the R-22 were delivered with coral pink molded fiberglass seats and speckled green interior. Fortunately the paint color wasn’t repeated. The famous R-33’s were a built as a group of 540 cars. Five hundred of these were built as single ended married pairs. They had gray fiberglass seats, drop sash windows and a brilliant tartar red paint scheme. They were of course known as “The Redbirds”. The last forty cars were built as double ended single units to make up eleven car trains on the Flushing Line. They featured picture windows and were painted in a blue and white paint scheme for the 1964 World’s Fair, hence they were known as “The Bluebirds”. The R-36 order was for 424 cars. 390 or these were built as “Bluebirds” for the Flushing Line with the trademark picture windows. The remaining 34 cars were built as “Redbirds for mainline operation with the drop sash windows. They had s slightly different interior paint scheme (same colors) and if you knew what you were looking for you could tell them from an R-33.At least ten (numbers needed) of the R-62 order had single bench seating as opposed to the bucket seats on the rest of the order.I’m sure that most of you can add much more to this list. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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