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The New York City Subway is a large rapid transit system and has a large fleet of electric multiple unit rolling stock. As of November 2016, the New York City Subway has 6418 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.
Track geometry car TGC1 Plasser: 1984 In service: R60: Track gang car: Never purchased: R61 Self-propelled crane cars C211, C216 Fuji Heavy Industries 1983 Retired R62: Passenger cars 1301–1625 Kawasaki Heavy Industries: 1983–1985 In service, 1366/1370 preserved R62A: 1651–2475 Bombardier Transportation: 1984–1987 R63 Track Geometry Car ...
New York City Subway chaining. Chaining numbers can be seen on the black pillars in the middle of the tracks of West Fourth Street–Washington Square. New York City Subway chaining is a method to precisely specify locations along the New York City Subway lines. It measures distances from a fixed point, called chaining zero, following the ...
A British Rail Class 442 third-rail electric multiple unit in Battersea. The contact shoe of a New York City Subway car making contact with the third rail. In the foreground is the third rail for the adjacent track.
The New York City Subway system has, for the most part, used block signaling since its 1904 opening. As of May 2014, the system consists of about 14,850 signal blocks, 3,538 mainline switches, 183 major track junctions, 10,104 automatic train stops, and 339,191 signal relays. [2]
The New York City Subway uses a system known as Automatic Train Supervision (ATS) for dispatching and train routing on the A Division [237] (the Flushing line and the trains used on the 7 and <7> services do not have ATS.) [237] ATS allows dispatchers in the Operations Control Center (OCC) to see where trains are in real time, and whether each ...
talk. edit. The IND Culver Line (formerly BMT Culver Line) is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway, extending from Downtown Brooklyn south to Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, United States. The local tracks of the Culver Line are served by the F service, as well as the G between Bergen Street and Church Avenue.
Contents. New York City Subway map. 2013 edition of the official Hertz-style subway map; note that this may not reflect temporary changes in service. Many transit maps for the New York City Subway have been designed since the subway's inception in 1904. Because the subway was originally built by three separate companies, an official map for all ...