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The '''R68''' subway car is a joint venture of ] AM-Rail Construction, ANF Industrie of Paris and other companies. With a contract to deliver 425 R-68 cars, R68 was built in France and shipped to New York Harbor. It is the first of two contracts of R68. R68 was built in combined by ] and ] features to built in a better state of the art subway car with high MDBF (Mean Distance Between Failure), perfoming better service. R68 is the third R-class contract to be built in 75-foot (23 m) cars. It has more capacity for sitting and standing passengers. First enter pasanger revenue service was in 1986 on the D-Line, first cars 2500-2007. There were two contracts to the R68, the primary order was: 2500-2727 and the R68-1 option order was 2728-2924. It serves NOW on {{NYCS D}}-6 Avenue Express, {{NYCS N}}-Broadway Express , {{NYCS Q}}-Broadway Express, {{NYCS S}}-Franklin Avenue Shuttle and sometimes making an appearance on {{NYCS B}}-6 Avenue Express and {{NYCS W}}-Broadway Local. R68 now stored and serve on the Concourse Yard in the ] and Coney Island Yard in ]. |
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The '''R68''' subway car is a joint venture of ] AM-Rail Company, ANF Industrie of Paris and other companies. With a contract to deliver 425 R-68 cars, R68 was built in France and shipped to New York Harbor. It is the first of two contracts of R68. R68 was built in combined by ] and ] features to built in a better state of the art subway car with high MDBF (Mean Distance Between Failure), perfoming better service. R68 is the third R-class contract to be built in 75-foot (23 m) cars. It has more capacity for sitting and standing passengers. First enter pasanger revenue service was in 1986 on the D-Line, first cars 2500-2007. There were two contracts to the R68, the primary order was: 2500-2727 and the R68-1 option order was 2728-2924. It serves NOW on {{NYCS D}}-6 Avenue Express, {{NYCS N}}-Broadway Express , {{NYCS Q}}-Broadway Express, {{NYCS S}}-Franklin Avenue Shuttle and sometimes making an appearance on {{NYCS B}}-6 Avenue Express and {{NYCS W}}-Broadway Local. R68 now stored and serve on the Concourse Yard in the ] and Coney Island Yard in ]. |