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VR Railfinder: NYCTA - Trainz

Trainz has a wealth of NYCTA routes and rolling stock. If the entire system isn't here, it's pretty darn close. All are available at the Trainz Download Station and work with TS2004.

Routes - NYCTA

Route Author Comment
irt1904 Jeff Morris New York City decided to make plans for the first subway system and IRT helped the city build the first subway system. The original 1904 route ran from City Hall to 42nd Street, turned left, ran to Broadway/7th Avenue, turned right, and ran to 145th Street when the route opened for business on October 27th, 1904. All of the stations except 125th Street are underground. IRT used 51-foot subway cars.
nycta2005 Jeff Morris New York City decided to make plans for the first subway system and IRT helped the city build the first subway system. The original 1904 route ran from City Hall to 42nd Street, turned left, ran to Broadway/7th Avenue, turned right, and ran to 145th Street when the route opened for business on October 27th, 1904. All of the stations except 125th Street are underground. IRT used 51-foot subway cars.
NYCTA Michael Espinal Open source project
nycta Jeff Morris This is the entire NYCTA Subway System layout. I tried to make it as prototypical as possible but I had to make some changes to it. It is not finished yet but it requires all of my custom content that is available on the Download Station, the USA Bumper Pack that is available on the Download Station, and HOG ground textures that are available on Trainz Luvr web site.


Trains - NYCTA

Train Author Comment
NYCTA R46B Subway car Jeff Barr 'The car that ruined Pullman-Standard' - Much like its predecessor the R44 ruined the St. Louis Car Company, problems with the R46 put Pullman-Standard out of business. From an original order for 754 cars to be delivered in 1974-75, delays in production caused the actual delivery to slip to 1975-78. During that time, serious problems with cracks in the Rockwell HP2T trucks caused many of the delivered units to be removed from service. The MTA filed a 112.3 million dollar lawsuit against Pullman-Standard, both for delays and the faulty trucks. By the end of 1979, over 20 other flaws, including serious problems with the brakes, were found, and an additional $80 million lawsuit was filed against Pullman-Standard. So many R46's were out of service that 100 retired R16's, which the R46's originally replaced, were pulled from storage and returned to service. By 1986, the R46's MDBF was less than 10,000 miles, the worst record in MTA history. In 1989-1991, they were rebuilt under the MTA's GOH program by Morrison-Knudsen, and finally became a reliably operating subway car.
NYCTA R46 subway car Jeff Barr See above
NYCTA R30A Subway Car Jeff Barr The NYCTA purchased 60 of these cars from the St. Louis Car Company in 1961 for use on the IND. Most served on both the IND and BMT lines through their history. The last of them were retired from passenger service in 1993. Car # 8506 can still be seen at the NYC Transit Museum. Originally delivered in a dark olive green paint which quickly degenrated into the color show here, sometime in 1968 they started receiving red paint (except for their roofs). In the early 70's, the NYCTA started switching everything to its silver with blue stripe paint scheme. It was possible to see these in all 3 paint schemes for a while.
NYCTA Low-V Subway car Jeff Barr Called 'Low-V' because of their use of safer low voltage control system (as opposed to the earlier 'Hi-V' equipment), these cars were first built in 1915 as special 'Steinway' 2 motor units designed to handle the 4% grade of the Steinway tunnel between Manhattan and Queens. The first actual 'Low-V' motor cars arrived in 1916, with additional orders in 1917, 1924 and 1925. The original 12 Steinway motors were build by the Pressed Steel Car Company, additional Low-V's were built by Pullman and ACF ('24 - '25). There were also Low-V trailer units, which were mixed with the motors to reduce weight on the old lattice elevated structures in Manhattan and the Bronx.
NYCTA R27 Subway Car Jeff Barr The NYCTA purchased 230 of these cars from the St. Louis Car Company in 1960 for use on the IND. Most served on both the IND and BMT lines through their history. The last of them were retired from passenger service in 1993. Car # 8506 can still be seen at the NYC Transit Museum. Originally delivered in a dark olive green paint which quickly degenrated into the color show here, sometime in 1968 they started receiving red paint (except for their roofs). In the early 70's, the NYCTA started switching everything to its silver with blue stripe paint scheme. It was possible to see these in all 3 paint schemes for a while.
NYCTA R32 Subway Car Jeff Barr 600 of these cars were purchased from Budd in 1964 and serve on both the BMT and IND divisions. As such, they're the only Budd equipment owned by the NYCTA, which is strange since almost all of them are still in service today. This also marked the first all stainless steel cars purchased by the NYCTA, something all purchases after this were to feature.
NYCTA R17 subway car Jeff Barr In 1955, the NYC Transit Authority purchased 400 R17 subway cars from the St. Louis Car Company. They have a half width cab at each end, with driving and conductor controls. All cars were single units, so they could be used in any arrangement (as opposed to other cars which were arranged in 'married pairs'). They were removed from service in 1988. They were originally delivered with vinyl seating, which was later replaced with fiberglass. Car number 6609 is still in use by the New York Transit Museum for fan trips. Car number 6688 is presently at the Shoreline Trolley Museum. They were delivered in olive green paint, were repainted red in the late 60's, silver/blue in the early 70's, and finally received the redbird paint scheme in the 80's.
NYCTA R17 Green Subway car Jeff Barr See above
NYCTA Subway Car Pack Jeff Morris Contains all subway cars from R1 thru R143 except R110A and R110B. R1 thru R22, R33WF, R33WC, R62, and R68 subway cars are single units. R26 thru R42 subway cars are married-pair sets. R44 and R46 subway cars come in four-car sets. R142 and R143 subway cars come in 5-car sets.
NYCTA BMT/IND R30 Subway Car Jeff Barr The NYCTA purchased 260 of these cars from the St. Louis Car Company in 1961 (and another 60 R30A versions) for use on the IND. Most served on both the IND and BMT lines through their history. The last of them were retired from passenger service in 1993. Car # 8506 can still be seen at the NYC Transit Museum. Originally delivered in a dark olive green paint which quickly degenrated into the color show here, sometime in 1968 they started receiving red paint (except for their roofs).
NYCTA R33 Redbird Subway Car 2 Jeff Barr Between 1962 and 1964, the NYC Transit Authority purchases several hundred R33 and R36 subway cars from the St. Louis Car Company. They're generally classified as either 'mainline' or 'worlds fair' cars. Mainline cars have standard windows, while those of the worlds fair variety have 'picture' windows, which are larger and have rounded corners. Both varieties were comprised of both R33 and R36 cars. The 'Worlds Fair' cars were originally used for the 1964 Worlds Fair in Flushing.
NYCTA R33 Redbird Subway Car Jeff Barr See above


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