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The New York City Subway is a large rapid transit system and has a large fleet of electric multiple unit rolling stock. As of November 2016, the New York City Subway has 6418 cars on the roster. The system maintains two separate fleets of passenger cars: one for the A Division (numbered) routes, the other for the B Division (lettered) routes.
4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The R211 is a class of New Technology Train (NTT) subway cars built for the New York City Subway. Being built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing for the B Division and the Staten Island Railway (SIR), they will replace two aging subway car models: all R44 cars on the Staten Island Railway and all ...
Pre-Unification Cars (BMT) Pre-Unification Cars (IRT) R-Type Cars 1932 to 1987. R-Type Cars 1999 to Present (NTT) 'R' Type Roster (includes non-train contracts) Roster of Rolling Stock Contracts. NYCTA Work Cars 2013. Korman, Joe (December 4, 2017).
Rolling stock on the New York City Subway produces high levels of noise that exceed guidelines set by the World Health Organization and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. [396] In 2006, Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found noise levels averaged 95 decibel (dB) inside subway cars and 94 dB on platforms. [ 396 ]
Contact shoe. Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The R262 is a proposed New Technology Train -series subway car for the New York City Subway. It is expected to replace the current R62 and R62A rolling stock, which are used on the subway's A Division and were built in the mid-1980s.
The R188 is a class of new technology (NTT) New York City Subway cars built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries for the A Division.The fleet entered service in 2013, displacing the 1980s-era R62A cars that operated on the 7 and <7> services, in conjunction with the automation of the IRT Flushing Line's signal system with communications-based train control (CBTC).
The L 14th Street–Canarsie Local [3] is a rapid transit service in the B Division of the New York City Subway. Its route emblem, or "bullet", is colored medium gray since it serves the BMT Canarsie Line. [4] The L operates at all times between Eighth Avenue in Chelsea, Manhattan, and Rockaway Parkway in Canarsie, Brooklyn.
New York City Subway: Operator(s) New York City Transit Authority: Rolling stock: R62A: Daily ridership: 100,000: History; Opened: October 27, 1904; 119 years ago () Technical; Line length: 0.44 miles (0.71 km) Number of tracks: 2 (formerly 4) Character: Underground: Track gauge: 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge: Electrification ...