R22 (New York City Subway car)

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R22
TRAINS LIKE THIS ONE HAVE BEEN SPRAY-PAINTED BY VANDALS - NARA - 548263.jpg
A graffiti-covered R22 train on the 1 at 125th Street
In service19571987
Manufacturer St. Louis Car Company
Built at St. Louis, Missouri
Replaced
Constructed19571958
Entered serviceApril 13, 1957
Scrapped1987
Number built450
Number in service(10 in work service)
Number preserved2
Number scrapped438
437 scrapped
1 in storage
Successor R62A
FormationSingle unit cars
Fleet numbers73007524 (Westinghouse)
75257749 (General Electric)
Capacity44 (seated)
Operators New York City Transit Authority
Specifications
Car body construction LAHT Carbon steel
Car length51 ft 0.5 in (15.56 m)
Width8 ft 9 in (2,667 mm)
Height11 ft 10 in (3,607 mm)
Doors6 sets of 50 inch wide side doors per car
Maximum speed55 mph (89 km/h)
Weight General Electric cars:
77,607 lb (35,202 kg)
Westinghouse cars:
78,604 lb (35,654 kg)
Traction systemWestinghouse 1447C or General Electric 1240A4
Power output100 hp (75 kW) per traction motor
Electric system(s) 600 V DC Third rail
Current collector(s) Top running Contact shoe
Braking system(s) WABCO ME42A
Safety system(s) Tripcock
ATO (1962–64, six-car test train)
Track gauge 4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

The R22 was a New York City Subway car built by the St. Louis Car Company from 1957 to 1958. The cars were a "follow-up" or supplemental stock for the A Division's R21s and closely resemble them. A total of 450 cars were built, arranged as single units. Two versions were manufactured: Westinghouse (WH)-powered cars and General Electric (GE)-powered cars.

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The first R22s entered service on April 13, 1957. Several cars in the fleet were retrofitted as part of an automated-signaling test on the 42nd Street Shuttle in 1962 and were destroyed in a 1964 fire. The R22s were replaced by the R62As in the 1980s, and the final train of R22s ran on December 30, 1987. Several R22 cars were preserved, though the majority were scrapped.

Description

The R22s were numbered 7300–7749. They were the last single cars built prior to the R33S cars built in 1963.

The fleet had two-paned storm door windows that could be opened by dropping down the upper window, though cars 7515–7524 had single drop sash windows instead. Those cars also had Plextone-painted interiors and pink-molded fiberglass seats. In addition, the R22s were the first cars to have sealed beam headlights.

There were two versions of the R22: Westinghouse Electric-powered cars (7300–7524) and General Electric-powered cars (7525–7749).

History

Two graffiti-covered R22 cars SUBWAY TRAINS, LIKE THIS ONE, HAVE BEEN SPRAY-PAINTED BY VANDALS - NARA - 548266.tif
Two graffiti-covered R22 cars

The R22s first entered service on April 13, 1957, starting to replace most of the IRT "high voltage" type cars. The R22s ran in service for most of their service lives on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line painted in green livery.

Cars 7513, 7509, 7516, 7654, 7675, and 7686 were used as an automatic test train, which ran in revenue service on the 42nd Street Shuttle starting in January 1962. The experiment ended on April 21, 1964, when a fire partially destroyed the Grand Central shuttle platform as well as car 7740. [1] Cars 7509, 7513, and 7516 were not in use at the time; thus, they were not damaged in the fire, but the cars never returned to revenue service. In 1973, car 7509 was converted to the 64-foot (19.51 m) test car XC375, which operated on various IRT lines until April 1982, and scrapped on July 12, 1996.

Retirement

Car G7486 at the 207th St Yard, awaiting scrapping MTA NYC Subway R22 7486.jpg
Car G7486 at the 207th St Yard, awaiting scrapping
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Car 1R714 on display at the New York Transit Museum

Though a very dependable fleet, the R22s, being single units, were not rebuilt and instead replaced in the mid-1980s by the R62As. The last train made its final trip on December 30, 1987, on the 5 service with a solid consist of R21s. [2]

The majority of the fleet was scrapped, but some R22s have been set aside for preservation over the years, including:

A handful of R22 cars are currently in work service:

7486 (renumbered G7486) is currently at the 207th Street Yard. The car was stripped and was to be reefed, but is now awaiting scrapping. [6] [7]

16 R22s were converted to R71 rider cars after retirement, but were replaced with R161s (R33s converted into rider cars) in the mid-2000s and eventually reefed. [8]

Cars 7303, 7340, 7446, 7505, 7657, 7659, and 7691 were converted to R123 continuous welded rail holder cars and overhauled under the R128 program, [9] but were replaced with R157 flat cars in the 2010s and eventually scrapped. [10]

A train of R22s was featured in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three , a 1974 film about the hijacking of a downtown 6 train. At least two different R22 cars portrayed Pelham 1-2-3. As it enters 28th Street station, the head car is labeled 7339. However, in an early scene at Grand Central, 7339 is seen on the express track across the platform. Later, after being cut from the rest of the train, the head car is labeled 7434.

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