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R68 (New York City Subway car)

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Westinghouse / Amrail and other companies joint venture to deliver 425 R-68 car contract. R68 was built in France and ship by boat to New York Habor. It is the first of two contracts of R68. R68 was built in combined by R46 and R62 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 feet car. It holds more seats and more standedes. 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 Template:NYCS D-6 Avenue Express, Template:NYCS N-Broadway Express , Template:NYCS Q-Broadway Express, Template:NYCS S-Franklin Avenue Shuttle and sometimes making apperence on Template:NYCS B-6 Avenue Expressand Template:NYCS W-Broadway Local. R68 now stored and serve on the Concourse Yard in the BRONX and Coney Island Yard in BROOKLYN.

R68 SPECSIFICATIONS

  • Car Builder: Westinghouse / Am-Rail in France and with various companies work on R68 contract including Alstom.
  • Built in: 1986 - 1988
  • Car Body: PURE Stainless Dteel
  • Unit Numbers: 2500-2915 are in 5 - Car sets and 2916-2924 are built in singles
  • Car Length: 75 FEET (22.9 m) long
  • Car Width: 10 FEET (3.0 m) wide
  • Car Height: 12 FEET, 1-5/8 INCHES (3.7 m) tall
  • Power: 130 HorsePower (97 kW) 4 per car
  • Propulsion System: Westinghouse E-CAM XCB248S, DC Motors
  • Brakes: New York Air Brake (NYAB) GSX23 brake system, WABCO Air Braking Vaule
  • Maximum speed: ~65 mph (105 km/h)
  • Transverse cabs at leading end; narrow cab at other
  • Built in 4-car sets except cars 2916-2924 are singles built for Template:NYCS S - Franklin Avenue Shuttle
  • Maximum train length: 8 cars (2 units)
  • Total Seating: 90
New York City Subway rolling stock
Current
A Division
B Division / SIR
Future
A Division
B Division
  • R268
Retired
(R-type)
IRT (A Division)
IND / BMT (B Division)
Retired
(private operators)
IRT (A Division)
Elevated
Subway
BMT (B Division) / SIR
Elevated
Subway
Experimental
Work trains
Never built
See also: R-type contracts
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