The R30 was a New York City Subway car model built by St. Louis Car Company from 1961 to 1962. The cars were a "follow-up" or supplemental stock for the B Division's R27s and closely resembled them. A total of 320 cars were built, arranged in married pairs.

Coupling/Numbering Arrangement: All married pairs. The last of the R-30 cars were retired from passenger service in 1993. The Electric Railroaders' Association sponsored a Farewell to the R-30 fan trip. There are 861 photos available. Location: 30th/Grand Aves. Equipped early with individual guard lights for each door leaf.

For the purposes of completing the modernization of the IRT we skipped over a fleet of cars delivered in 1960 and 1961; we will now take a brief step back in time and cover the uneventful story of the R27, R30, and R30a cars.

Redbird trains were eight New York City Subway train models so-nicknamed because of their red paint. [1] The Redbirds totaled 1,410 cars of the following types on the A Division lines: R26, R28, R29, R33, R33S, and R36. There were also 550 cars on the B Division lines: R27 and R30/A, making a grand total of 1,960

This is a list of all R-type contracts in the New York City Subway. [1] All passenger rolling stock made in this time period are New Technology Trains. Car types that currently have CBTC: R143, R160, R179, R188, and R211. Car types that will have CBTC in …

Oct 23, 2013 · Today, history was made in which the last remaining R27 subway car, car number 8145 was removed from NYCT property - some 23 years after 229 of its sister cars were removed and scrapped. 8145 did her last years as a School Car, first at 36th Street Yard in the 1990s, and then later at Pitkin Yard.

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Dec 21, 2010 · Here's a picture of the R30's on the train I've taken in the early 1990s (probably early 1991 or '92): The R30's are like the R36WF cars, because they retained that SMEE sound, with a distinctive "puff" when the doors closed. Internally, …

These cars were the first New York City Subway cars to have rollsigns, running lights on the front of the train, and after an upgrade, a single conductor could operate all the train's doors from an interior cab position.

New York City Transit Authority R30 Subway Set. Lionel scale subway cars are back again in all new class and paint scheme! Class R30 subway cars dressed in vibrant red. Entering service in 1961, R30 subway cars operated mainly in the Eastern Division of …