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Posted by randyo on Sun Apr 8 16:37:41 2018, in response to Subway Oddballs (Not the two legged kind), posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sun Apr 8 12:43:46 2018. The last 10 R-22 cars which were ordered with the fiberglass seats, speckled green interiors and rigidized doors were numbered 7515 -7524. The R-22s like many other cars orders came in out of numerical order with 7525 - 7749 coming in first and 7300 - 7524 coming in last. The reason the WF singles were part of the R-33 contract was that the people on the Flushing line were promised new cars by a certain time so those 40 cars were R-33 cars built with R-36 parts. After a sufficient number of WF cars were delivered, the left over R-33 parts were used to build the 40 R-36 mainline cars. Like the R-33 singles, the 10 R-17s that formerly had A/C were outfitted with fans manufactured by the Trane Co instead of the axiflow fans that the rest of the fleet had. As for the speckled green paint scheme of the last 10 R-22s "fortunately” not being repeated, I was actually disappointed that the speckled green was not used on the R-26s and later contracts since I thought it was a refreshing change from the 2 tone blue/grey paint that was standard on the post war fleet till the R-29s. |
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