NYCT IRT Main Line R36s 9542 and 9543          
9542 and 9543 are 1965 model "Main Line" Westinghouse R36 IRT passenger units built by St. Louis Car, delivered 2/1965. Last new build passenger rail equipment in North America with conventional sash windows. 9543 tested Westinghouse E-Cam DC traction in 1988, later installed on GOH R44s (1991) and now on all R62s, R62As, R68s and R68As. The 34 Main Line R36s (9524-9557) are actually Main Line R33s delivered at the tail end of the R36 order, being assembled from leftover Main Line R33 car shells between July 1964 and early 1965. These leftover R33 car shells resulted when it was decided to have the last 40 R33s built as single units for 11-car operation for Flushing Line World's Fair Service.9543 is seen here signed up for the 3 line, a route it would have regularly operated between 1970 and 1987. 9542 and 9543 are in the New York Transit Museum fleet.
Date: 3/25/2018 Location: New York, NY   Map Show New York on a rail map Views: 42 Collection Of:   Kevin Wong
Author:  Kevin Wong
NYCT IRT Main Line R36s 9542 and 9543
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