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Your Favorite IRT Subway Car


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Your favorite IRT subway car (current fleet)?  

  1. 1. Your favorite IRT subway car (current fleet)?

    • R62 - Kawasaki
      28
    • R62A - Bombadier
      34
    • R142 - Bombadier
      18
    • R142A - Kawasaki
      46


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the R62 & 62a's for me...call me old school im a bit of a traditionalist...im still trying to get used to th R142's i love the sound of the propulsion and the braking...not to mention they use the roll signs in front rather than the digital ones that arent even color coded, wellthat is if ur riding the (2) or (3)

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It was on the (2) and (5) trains many years ago way before the R-142's came along. I rode a R-62 (2) train from Simpson Street to Pelham Parkway and a R-62 (5) train from President Street to either 125th Street or 3rd Avenue-149th Street !

 

i think it was an R62A, not R62. before the R142/142As arrived, R62s only ran on the (4). R62As ran on the 1/9, 3, and 6 with occasional appearances on the (2) and (5). the (7) was entirely redbirds.

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To me, the R62s are the R46s on the IRT with their acceleration and reliability.

 

Their reliability FAR outputs the R46. And they accelerate as fast as any train in the system.

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R142A. Their propulsion is wonderful and they run nice with all that technology!

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