R40 (New York City Subway car)
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The R40 (sometimes referred to as R40 Slant to distinguish it from the later R40M) is a New York Subway IND-BMT car, built in 1967-1969 by the St. Louis Car Company, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. These cars were unique for their 15 degree slanted end, designed by Raymond Loewy. This order was supposed to be 400 cars and also it was supposed to be linked as a 5 - car set insted of married pairs.
The first R40 set was delivered in November, 1967. In January, 1968, the first cars went into service on the Template:NYCS F -6 Avenue Local. The New York City Transit Authority found great dangers with the slant, with the lack of handholds for riders walking between cars, the danger of the passenger falling onto the track and flaws of the design. All R40 cars were later retrofitted with pantograph gates at ends. With the poorly conceived slant design, NYCTA had the last 100 R40 cars (R40M) built with a non-slant end just look like R42. 200 R40A's (100 R40A slants and 100 "R40M") were built with original air conditioning.
In 1988-1989 the R40's were rebuilt by Sumitomo in Elmira Heights, New York.
Currently, they can be found on the Template:NYCS B -6 Avenue Express, Template:NYCS N -Broadway Express, Template:NYCS Q -Broadway Express, and Template:NYCS W -Broadway Local. They are based at Coney Island in Brooklyn and Concourse yard in the Bronx.
By around 2010 the R160 should replace the R40.
Numbered 4150-4449, these are the 300 slant cars (R40M numbered 4450-4549)
R-40 SPECIFICATIONS
- Car Builder: Saint Louis Rail Car Company in ST LOUIS, MO (USA)
- Car Body: Stainess Steel with LAHT alloy welded unibody constuction (Carbon alloy Steel), Carbon Steel chassis and underframes, fiberglass front bonnets
- Car Length: 60 feet, 2-1/2 inches (18.4 m) long
- Car Width: 10 feet (3.0 m) wide
- Car Height: 12 feet, 1-5/8 inches (3.7 m) tall
- Track Gauge: 4 feet, 8-1/2 inches (1435 mm)
- Total Weight: 74,433 lbs. (33,762 kg)
- Power: 115 HorsePower (86 kW) / 4 per car
- Total Seating: 44
- Propulsion System: General Electric, SCM 17KG192AE2, DC Motors
- Braking: WABCO "SMEE" Braking System
- R40 (Slant) Unit Numbers: 4150-4349
- Cab arrangement: Half-width driving cab at "A" end, half-width conductor control cab at "B" end
- Coupling/numbering arrangement: All married pairs.
External links
- nycsubway.org - NYC Subway Cars: R40 (http://www.nycsubway.org/cars/r40.html)