last year of service for white elephants?

[pelhamlocal]

what was the last year that the mainline non shuttle white elephants ran before being repainted into redbirds and/or replaced by the 62's, thanks:)

[dman1455]

nycsubway.org should have helped you!

 

but because I'm so nice I think it was around 1987 or 1988

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[R36 Preservation]

The last white IRT cars would be on the in late 1988, as unrebuilt R33s. During 1987-88, the 5 was mixed between white and red cars. The red R17s ran on the 5 until 2/29/88, mixed with red R33s (an interior shot can be briefly seen in the credits of Oliver Stone's Wall Street).

 

On the , white cars lasted through 1986 (they appear in the "Commuting/Community" photo montage at Woodside, taken in 1986). Some clean, white cars might have lasted on the 7 as late as 1987, from several photographs. The first "Gunn red fox" cars began appearing on the Flushing Line in autumn 1984.