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R22 (New York City Subway car)
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| R22 (New York City Subway Car) | |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | St. Louis Car Company |
| Built at | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Replaced | 1987 |
| Constructed | 1957-1958 |
| Number built | 450 |
| Number in service | 0 |
| Number preserved | 3 (54 used in work service) |
| Number scrapped | 393 |
| Fleet numbers | 7300-7749 |
| Capacity | 44 (seated) |
| Operator | New York City Transit Authority |
| Specifications | |
| Car body construction | LAHT Carbon steel |
| Car length | 51 ft 0.5 in (15.56 m) |
| Width | 8 ft 9 in (2,667 mm) |
| Height | 11 ft 10 in (3,607 mm) |
| Doors | 6 |
| Maximum speed | 55 mph (89 km/h) |
| Weight | General Electric cars: 77,607 lb (35,202 kg) Westinghouse cars: 78,604 lb (35,654 kg) |
| Traction system | Westinghouse 1447C or General Electric 1240A4 |
| Power output | 100 hp (75 kW) per traction motor |
| Electric system(s) | 600 V DC Third rail |
| Current collection method | Top running Contact shoe |
| Braking system(s) | WABCO ME42A |
| Gauge | 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) |
The R22 was a New York City Subway car built in 1957 by the St. Louis Car Company for the IRT division. Each car cost approximately $106,699.
The 450 R22s were the last single cars built prior to the R33 World's Fairs in 1963-4. The fleet had two-paned storm door windows that could be opened by dropping down the upper window except for cars 7515-24, which had single drop sash windows instead. Those cars also had Plextone-painted interiors and pink-molded fiberglass seats. The R22s were the first cars to have sealed beam headlights.
The R22s entered service in 1957-58, replacing most of the IRT "high voltage" type cars. They spent most of their runs on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line painted in green livery.
Cars 7513, 7509, 7516, 7654, 7675, and 7686, were used as an automatic test train which ran revenue service on the 42nd Street Shuttle starting January 1962. The experiment ended on April 21, 1964, when a fire partially destroyed the Grand Central Shuttle platform as well as car 7740.[1]. Cars 7509, 7513, and 7516 were not damaged in the fire, but never returned to revenue service. In 1973, car 7509 was converted to the 64-foot (19.51 m) test car XC375, which operated on various IRT Lines until April 1982. The car was scrapped on July 12, 1996.
Though a very dependable fleet, the R22s, being single units, were not rebuilt, but replaced in the mid 1980s by the R62/R62As. The last train made its final trip on December 30, 1987 on the 5 service with a solid consist of R21s. [2]
Three cars have been preserved. Car 7371 is at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine, 7486 is at the 207th Street Yard and is currently being scrapped,[3][4], and 7422 is at the New York Transit Museum coupled to R21 7194, both of which were money train cars.[5]. 54 R22s were converted to work cars while the rest of the fleet was scrapped.
A train of R22s were featured in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, a 1974 film about the hijacking of a subway car, seen in the film as number 7339, on a downtown 6 train.
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