The R12 was a New York City Subway car built by the American Car and Foundry Company in 1948. A total of 100 cars were built, arranged as single units. Two versions were manufactured: Westinghouse (WH)-powered cars and General Electric (GE)-powered cars. The R12s were the first post-war city-owned rolling stock for the IRT A Division.

The R-12, ordered from American Car & Foundry in 1948, was the first "IRT" sized car based on this new design, shorter, narrower, and with straight longitudinal seats and one less door pair per side compared to the R-10.

The disposition of the R-12 fleet included conversion to work cars, scrapping, and preservation. Top: R-12 5802 was coverted to a hydraulic lift car, seen at the BMT 36th St. Yard in 1981 (Steve Zabel photo, collection of Joe Testagrose).

The New York City Subway is a large rapid transit system and has a large fleet of electric multiple unit rolling stock. As of September 2024, the New York City Subway has 6712 cars on the roster. The system maintains two separate fleets of passenger cars: one for the A Division (numbered) routes, the other for the B Division (lettered) routes ...

R12: 5703–5802 American Car & Foundry 1948 Retired, 5760/5782 preserved R13: Track cleaning unit: Never purchased: R14: Passenger cars 5803–5952 ... MTA (in-house) 1988 Retired, 0R714/1R714 preserved R96 Overhaul 43 flat cars R97: 1 vacuum train: Cancelled: R98 Retrofit traction motors R99 Same as R29 [18] R100:

The R12 was the first subway car ordered by the City of New York for the IRT following the city's takeover of the IRT and BMT subways. The R12s were similar to the R10s but built to accommodate the IRT's specifications. The R12s entered service on the Flushing Line during the summer of 1948.

None of the old IRT stock was replaced by the R12's. The R12's must have been a radical change for Commuters on that line who were used to the old IRT stock of 1915-1925 vintage and only a few years before had been riding wooden elevated trains as well.

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Transit Photography » United States » New York City » New York City Subway: Retired Rolling Stock » R12 Cars R12 5760 at Grand Central on a fantrip, June 29, 2003

This is an MTH 30-2728-1 Metropolitan Transportation R-12 4-Car Subway Set w/Proto-Sound 2.0, Cab Nos.: 30633, 30631, 30630, and power unit 35802. Manufactured by the American Car and Foundry, the R-12 subway car represented a real break from subway car construction tradition thanks to the infusion of modern convenienc