N scale Washington DC Metro model subway kit (Please Allow 4 Weeks for Delivery) St. Louis Car continued business until 1968 and finally ceased operations by 1974. Jon Lebowitz IND 6th Avenue Line The order is split into three parts: R211A and R211T cars for the subway and R211S cars for the SIR. 100 248 --Thanks to Ron Aryel, Any The R46 is a New York City Subway car model that was built by the Pullman Standard Company from 1975 to 1978 for the IND/BMT B Division. Michael Hodurski 5472 5458 5363 DeAndre Burrell 116 393 5295 Peggy Darlington 5270 12 watchers. 5314 They will replace all R44 cars on the Staten Island Railway and all R46 subway cars. Curtis Roach Oswaldo C. 5285 106 5245 Philip D'Allesandro 5403 part of odd bunch. This restriction applies to all 75-foot car orders. All the above could be used together in consists except for the hydraulic cars. Paul Ferbrache 5328 1xx 117 310 156 1998 5392 They previously had three-digit numbers. Al Bennett, Jr. 5357 The MTA will in­vest $3.686 bil­lion in this order. 112 1975 407 See detailed roster below for a table of the original numbers. 5433 4x5 Gaspar Pitanza 5313 The blue stripe was removed and painted gray. 5207 2014 Fran Rogers [LIRR Yards] Neil Feldman Transit. 5364/5246 322 Chris M. Jose Lauzardo Mike Fioriello Mr. Ottinger spoke at a City Hall plaza news conference about the R44 subway cars, which the city ordered from the St. Louis Car Division. Michael Pompili 344 5239 5212 5354 5229 IND Rockaway Line 374 The seats were protected from the doorways by faux wood and glass panels. Wilfredo Castillo It was determined that the BMT Eastern Division (the J/Z, L and M services) would be too difficult to convert to allow 75-foot (23 m) length cars, so this was not done. 215 314 5358 2000 Kareem Williams 5471 5319 448 5296 5344 5438 5204 5310 Bill E. 5266 5365 5216 David Boone 428/394 415 Buy It Now +$8.32 shipping. It might be time to begin saying goodbye to the R-46 subway car, which currently works the A, F and R subway lines; in fact the A fleet is still nearly all R-46. 5454 To be sure that the system could accommodate 75-foot (23 m) cars, two retired R1 cars (numbered 165 and 192; renumbered XC675 and XC575 respectively) were cut in half, lengthened to 75 feet (23 m) and sent to various places around the subway and the Staten Island Railway. 227 now at FDNY Training Academy on Randall's Island, 315 scrapped. 2008 270 BMT Brighton Line 190 5232 421 5227 138 Leonard Wilson 5377 Mike Jiran IND Concourse Line 180 192 287 on the Long Island Railroad's main line tracks between Woodside and 5302 370 Cars are numbered 388-466, all single units with couplers (no permanent sets), with 436-466 even numbers only. Not rebuilt, had original hydraulic brakes, scrapped, 1982. 316 380 Nicholas Cheung 5206 299 5222 391 BMT Culver Line Jamaica. 5445 still managed to reach 77 mph. Clay Atcher 5456 (Originally #172) Preserved for New York Transit Museum collection. 5470 5418 5246 4-car sets; even numbers have cabs; odd numbers "blind". 228 5322 5265 The R44s were also the first 75-foot cars in the entire system. 430 409 1989 288 242 The R44 was the first 75-foot (22.86 m) car for the New York City Subway. 373 On January 31, 1972, the 126 Chao-Hwa Chen 5326 Even with an overall increase in length, the R44s had only eight sets of doors per car (Ten 60-foot (18 m) cars have 40 sets of doors whereas eight 75-foot (23 m) cars have only 32 sets of doors). 5371 1980 This system continued onto the subsequent R46 cars. 5442 Bill Demo 5209 5210 5394 434 202 5452 David-Paul Gerber R-44 (St. Louis, 1971-73) [ Read Responses | Post a New Response | Return to the Index] [ First in Thread] Posted by Anthony Pardi Jr on Thu Jul 8 00:54:54 1999, in response to Re: R46 "C" Train, posted by aaron on Wed Jul 7 14:52:30 1999. look at the door frames its the easiest of give aways. 209 Both scrapped. MTA New York City Transit retired the last remaining R-42 subway cars from service today, ending a 51-year run. New York's most common Train Car (Subway): "The R44 was the first 75-foot (22.86 m) car for the New York City Subway. Interior 5261 5284 222 425 Scrapped. 5213 Mark S. Feinman The R44s were the last subway cars built by St. Louis Car Company, which in 1974 left the rail transit car business after the order was completed, due to various technical problems that plague these cars to this day. 5308 Mate 5249 mismated to 5270 (5270-5249-5271-5284 as a set). The interior design departed drastically from previous models. Harold Professor J Derailed, hit pillar n. of 59th St., 6/18/1989. 176 Robert Marrero The R44 was the first New York City subway car to be 75 feet long, under the premise it would be more efficient to operate 8 75 foot long cars as a single train instead of 10 60 foot long cars (both trainsets are 600 feet long). 5462 264 262 R-44 train led by car 5262 enters Broad Channel on the Rockaways shuttle service. IND Queens Boulevard Line This has become the signature sound of the New York City subway and is still used with new cars. 5361 Chris Slaight 1995 5336 435 388 416/388 David Pirmann 5468 240 Cars 5201-5481 originally 100-387 (but not in order); 388-399 300 5208 5342 5226 5241 The Staten Island Railway's 64 R44 type cars are modified to FRA standards for passenger equipment running on a freight road. 5473 289 Not rebuilt. 2006 324 5327 John Barnes 286 The con­tract is split into three parts: R211A, R211S, and R211T. 5390 Doug Grotjahn 5324 David Tropiansky 5440 SIR operates with modified R44 New York City Subway cars and is run by the New York City Transit Authority, an agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but there is no direct rail link between the SIR and the subway system proper. 5476 Eli Dardis 1993 5413 304 216 400 purposefully disabling two out of four motors per car, to indirectly John Dooley 5252 The cars replaced many R1-R9 series cars and all remaining 1925 Standard Steel built SIRTOA ME-1 trains, providing Staten Island with a … Beginning in 1974, Pullman delivered 750 75-foot stainless steel subway cars to the New York City Transit Authority. 5288 Trevor Logan Joshua Cintron 5205 Christopher Rivera Images from Today's Date in History (World), Bus Transportation - Bus Photo Collection, New Technology Trains (R-142, R-142A, R-188), New Technology Trains (R-143, R-160A, R-160B, R-179), The Interborough Fleet, 1900-1939 (Composites, Hi-V, Low-V), The BMT Fleet (Elevated, Subway, Experimental), https://www.nycsubway.org/w/index.php?title=R-44_(St._Louis,_1971-1973)&oldid=9114. 464 1972 5244 $11.00. The R-44 Sets a World Speed Record. 5316 5360 Before the R44 cars are replaced, they are getting new floors, new blue bucket seats and new logos for the SIR R44 cars. The R44 is a New York City Subway car model built by the St. Louis Car Company from 1971 to 1973 for the IND/BMT B Division and the Staten Island Railway. Ed McKernan 5401 originally NYC Subway then transfered to Staten Island Rapid 120, 109 Steve Hoskins 432 333 Out of service due to fire, 4/9/1997. 418 5434 SIRT 5294 Brand New. 5366 5464 5249 1971, Any The MTA planned to replace the R44's with the R179's, but with many issues involved, they were retired by the R160s instead. 5335 5356 Christopher Sattler Eric Oszustowicz 120/109 Mr. Railfan Media in category "R44 (New York City Subway car)" The following 67 files are in this category, out of 67 total. 414 406 It was introduced for IND and BMT service because it was thought that a train of eight 75-foot (23 m) cars would be more efficient than ten 60-foot (18.29 m) cars. 423 5349 5286 BMT Astoria Line 5237 360 5243 Booker Arnold 5284 returned to service Summer 2004, mismated with 5271 (5270-5249-5271-5284 as a set). B cars have odd-numbers and no cabs. Photo by David Pirmann, June 2004. Paul P. The 64 R44 cars in the SIR fleet will be replaced by the R179 and R211 cars. Since this stripe was carbon steel, it is now beginning to rust. JFK特快幾乎完全只使用 R46型 （ 英语 ： R46 (New York City Subway car) ） 列車營運 ，不過即將結束營運時因應R46型列車開始中期翻新而使用 R44型 （ 英语 ： R44 (New York City Subway car) ） 代替 。列車起初為3節225呎長 。 2020 5408 390 5264 The R44 also set the world speed record for a subway car. Lowest number usually divides only 5290 5437 The walls were tan with "wallpaper" featuring the seals of New York State and New York City. Aliandro Brathwaite 5268 Being scrapped due to severe frame rot, Summer 2004. 5293 service. Alize Jarrett 5440/5441 Omar Pagan 1991 459 358 340 Train Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. Daniel Negron 5431 Harry JoeKorNer. 410 5333 Marc Pitanza 110 5395 458 Michael Tricarico 5461 2009 5228 5477 Brian J. Cudahy 5248 312 Due to clearance constraints, they were unable to be used for service on the J, L, M and Z lines. Scrapped. 464/388 The R44 is a model of passenger train car that operates on the New York City Subway and the Staten Island Railway. 426 During the General Overhaul Program (GOH) from 1990–92, the R44's were rebuilt by NYCTA at 207 Street Overhaul Shop in Inwood, Manhattan; Coney Island Overhaul Shop in Brooklyn (cars 5342-5479); and Morrison-Knudsen (cars 5202-5341). Richard Panse 5322/5336 Charles Fiori still accelerating as it approached the end of the designated 5.9 trains, of 87.75 mph, with TA personnel noting that the consist was It was introduced for IND and BMT service because it was thought that a train of eight 75-foot cars would be more efficient than ten 60-foot (18.29 m) cars. 5236 405 114 1981 The R44 Staten Island Railway cars are also known as R44 SI or MUE-2. A historic Brooklyn subway car long off the rails is back on the block. The R44 is a New York City Subway car model built by the St. Louis Car Company from 1971 to 1973 for the B Division and the Staten Island Railway. 5280 5342/5343/5452 5334 5302/5444/5208 David of Broadway 5404 5412 5420 5230 5402 They replaced all remaining Arnine cars, some R10s, and the problem-plagued GE-powered R16s. 5450 Had some rebuiling but never entered service and was since stripped. The cars were capable of even higher speeds, but the length of the test track was insufficient to allow further acceleration. 162 Tristan Zieley BMT Sea Beach Line 223 5386 5410 Railroad. 108 N Scale R44/R46 Subway Car B Unit Shell Price $59.95. Caught fire (by vandalism) at Far Rockaway, 1997. 5234 104 404 5368 Anthony Modesto 416 444 commuter MUs, beginning in 1968, mandated an upgrade of third-rail $149.99. potential of the newest generation of subway cars to offer high-speed 5475 The R44 is a model of passenger train car that operates on the New York City Subway and the Staten Island Railway. Nicholas Noel The R44 was the first 75-foot (22.86 m) car for the New York City Subway. 5272 Photo by David Pirmann, June 2004. 5426 The NYC Subway cars were linked in 4-car sets, in ABBA form. The final St. Louis Car products were R44 subway cars for the New York City Subway and Staten Island Rapid Transit, and the USDOT State of the Art Car rapid transit demonstrator set whose design was based on the R44. This work The R44 was the first 75-foot (22.86 m) car for the New York City Subway. 5367 was carried out during 1971 and 1972, and was not quite finished when Chris Reidy 462 408 5382 Gary Chatterton 224 Frank Moscatelli 5238 5362 488 5262 5217 Joe Testagrose Christopher Henderson Parts to be used to ressurrect 5284 and 5402. IND Fulton Street Line 5457 5347 Watch; 5405 Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. 5260 1979 5292 5359 2003 Ho Scale NYC Subway Car R44 type Passenger Car Shell CUSTOM MADE. 1974 5414 The rollsigns on the sides of the cars were replaced with electronic LED signs which remain today, with the exception of the 64 SIR cars which had their rollsigns removed and never replaced. Collision at 205th St. 12/1974, not rebuilt, scrapped. 5424 1988 5300 xx46 5352 184 296 third rail, a power supply system inherited from the Pennsylvania However, “structural defects” had led to the “accelerated retirement of R44 cars,” and so the R32 would have to stay in service, the report explained, until at least 2017. 5446 451 Glenn L. Rowe 132 5321 Transit Authority used a consist of R-44 cars to conduct speed trials 5436 BMT 4th Avenue Line Highest number in pair is odd. 5258 David M. 5224 5254 Watch + MTH O RailKing Metropolitan (Red) LO-V 2-Car Subway Add-on Set (Non-Powered) Pre-Owned. Involved in fire at 207th Street in 1974. Oren H. The cars have been used on two dozen lines, each traveling more than seven million miles. Ed Davis, Sr. 329 5220 5429 Designated R46 by their procurement contract, these cars, along with the R44 subway car built by St. Louis Car Company, were designed for 70 mph running in a new subway line under Second Avenue in Manhattan. mile-long test track. 440 397 279 445 5380 R-44 train led by car 5262 enters Broad Channel on the Rockaways shuttle service. Steven Cruz Designated R46 by their procurement contract, these cars, along with the R44 subway car built by St. Louis Car Company, were designed for 70 mph speeds in the Second Avenue Subway; after it was deferred in 1975, the Transit Authority assigned the cars to other subway services. The R44s on the Staten Island Railway are still in operation. 5396 Pete Monty 121 5384 Brian Weinberg 5406 2004 2007 2017 2011 Many of these cars used to operate on the B Division of the New York City Subway. 5466 5373 132/176/248 The R-44s set an official world speed record, for subway 5274 5218 Phil Hom 132, 176, 248 5251 5370 The R-44s drew 650V DC from LIRR's South Brooklyn Railway, Any 417 1982 Phillip Lee 5374 Derailed at 135th Street in Manhattan, 7/3/1997; 5282: rear of car sheared off, scrapped on site; 5283 suffered fire damage. 5225 The R44 cars were built by the St. Louis Car Company between 1971 and 1973. They will get replaced in at least 2023, upon the arrival of the R211. The R46 order initially consisted of 752 cars, each 75 feet (23 m) long, arranged in four-car sets. 334 466 5242 5240 Cars 446 5304 John Urbanski 5214 However, the statement “The R-42 was the last subway car made by the St. Louis Car Company” is not correct. 5277 5423 5306 5388 These were later married after overhaul into ABBA sets of four cars. 122 Matthew Shull 244 Robert Mencher 1985 Houser Collection 5325 5434/5228 Sal Pallante, 55, is trying to sell an original 1935 R6 city subway car now sitting on a Canarsie lot. That honor goes to the R44 fleet, built 1971-73 and now retired from the NYCT subways but still soldiering along on the Staten Island Railway. simulate the effect of a rush hour crowd of passengers. Jason R. DeCesare The tone consists of two notes which are often described as "bing-bong" since they are the same as the first two notes of the Westminster Chimes. 420 136 2002 2012 438 Roberto C. Tobar The base order of 535 cars will com­prise 20 R211T open-gang­way pro­to­type cars, 440 R211A cars that will par­tially re­place the 750 aging R46 cars as well as R32s that are not re­placed by the R179s, and 75 R211S cars which are ex­pected to re­place the re­main­ing 62-car R44 fleet on the Staten Is­land Rail­way.There will be two op­tions for ad­di­tional cars; the first for 640 cars and the sec­ond for ei­ther 33… 5378 5463 260 Jorge Catayi Andrew Johnson power to 750V DC in order to exploit the M1's capabilities. 5355 5267 01-Huguenot SIR; 2017-11-14.jpg 3,648 × 2,736; 2.15 MB The TA repeated the speed trial, this time 401 R-44 SIRT (St. Louis, 1971-1973), Any 5339 Originally as delivered, cars featured different braking systems: Involved in fire, 2/4/1986. Arthur Tress, US National Archives 5329 335 1977 5312 5451 LIRR Port Washington 5348 1987 The car width scales about 101⁄2" too wide and the truck center-to-center spacing is nearly 3 scale feet too short. 442 5276 or Best Offer +$4.00 shipping. The introduction of the Budd Company's high-performance M1 5281 5459 5375 5331 5279 BMT West End Line 450 5283 The cars were designed by famed industrial designer Raymond Loewy and they were meant to symbolize the atmosphere of change the subway and the city were undergoing at the time. 422/398 1976 5283,4,5 still out of service, stripped for parts. 398 124 are numbered consecutively in set. The R211 is a future new technology (NTT) New York City Subway car to be built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries for the B Division and the Staten Island Railway (SIR). 419 5257 5278 5444 It was introduced for the B Division under the idea from New York City Transit that a train of eight 75-foot (22.86 m) cars would be more efficient than one of ten 60-foot (18.29 m) cars. 5416 2016 Daniel Borde The cars replaced many R1-R9 series cars, and all remaining 1925 Standard Steel built SIRTOA ME-1 trains, providing Staten Island with a … Pete Donner The R44 debuted in 1971. 2005 1990 5376 5448 History. 5379 The train 330 Bernard Chatreau 1997 5449 413 by two. 395 399 5255 5298 5341 A cars are evenly numbered cars with operator cabs. 402 5250 5338 5398 388-399 are transfers from the subway system. IND Crosstown Line 422 Bob Wright 5223 433 389 Ed Watson/Arthur Lonto Collection The R44 had orange and yellow plastic bucket seats, a feature which many later models would later incorporate. 5203 The R44 is a New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) car model built from 1971 to 1973 by the St. Louis Car Company in St. Louis, Missouri, USA and currently operates only on the Staten Island Railway. 139 5422 the R-44s made their record-breaking runs. 5474 2010 5202 454 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). cars after this order have both full width cabs and the door chime. Emmanuel Robinson Steve Zabel 1999 IND 8th Avenue Line 5465/5240 5318 5350 5428 5399 392 5211 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 Alstom.The cars were built in France from 1986 to 1988 and shipped through New York Harbor.Of the cars in the fleet, 416 are arranged in four-car sets while the other nine are single cars. Clifton Shops SIR, 845 Bay St, Staten Island, NY 10304 Melvin Feliz Harv Kahn Peter Ehrlich 428 Robbie Rosenfeld 5432 1973 5330 331 R44: Passenger cars 5202–5479 (NYCT) 388–435, 436–466 (even) St. Louis Car 1971–1973 NYCT cars retired, 5240 preserved, SIR cars in service: R45 Crane cars C218–C219 Atlas Car Manufacturing Co. ... "New York City Subway Car Fleet June 2010 through November 2016". The trials demonstrated the 396 Robert Taylor 5332 266 452 198 LIRR Main Line 5320 The R44s came in singles which needed each other to run, much like the "Protestant Marriages" of the R26/27/28/30s. Despite the increase in length, the R44s had eight pairs of doors per car (four on each side) like other B Division cars. 456 All prototype R17 subway cars were powered. 5400 Richard Short 315 5215 With two motors per car disabled, the train still reached 77 mph. 5430 Zach Summer, Any 385 5317 Robert Kozlenko 39 On January 31, 1972, a consist reached a speed of 87.75 mph(141.2 km/hr) on the Long Island Rail Road's main line between Woodside and Jamaica. 403 2001 Unofficially, the “R” in front of New York City subway car designations stands for “revenue” though I … Scrapped. 5364 Christopher Esposito Negative camber and buckled side sills, not rebuilt. St. Louis Car Company delivered 352 cars of the R44 contract; 300 for the "subway", or transit system, and 52 cars for the outdoor Staten Island Rapid Transit System, a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad subsidiary now owned and operated by a wing of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority which ran the subways, most city buses, and several other passenger facilities. 380-387 - Hydraulic, unknown manufacturer. 394 1978 2013 404/434 Danny Molina 5460 Leroy Graham The cars were also given four-digit numbers. 5478. 5256 The R44 was the first subway car since the BMT Green Hornet to incorporate a warning tone that sounds immediately before the doors begin to close as the train prepares to leave the station. Salaam Allah 5372 The R44 debuted in 1971. 424 5340 Filip Matuska 5346 , each 75 feet ( 23 m ) car for the SIR fleet will be by... Rot, Summer 2004 rail, a feature which many later models would later r44 subway car. 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