Trains
The oldest cars currently in service on the subway.
What is the Pullman-Standard R46?
The trackage used solely by the 5 in the Bronx.
What is the Dyre Avenue Line?
This station is parallel to an abandoned station that was supposed to be part of the IND Worth Street Line.
What is Broadway?
Before the 7 train ran through this tunnel, this mode of transit ran through the Steinway tunnel.
What is a trolley?
The nickname given to the IND's original fleet of cars.
What is an Arnine?
The R211S, in June 2023, ran testing on this line in Brooklyn.
What is the Sea Beach Line?
This line is replaced by 3 lines during late nights.
What is the B?
This platform at Newkirk Plaza has an uncovered (open to the sky) section.
What is the southbound platform?
LIRR trains run in a tunnel under this avenue, and though service was cut back partway along it, there is an abandoned locomotive under it.
What is Atlantic Ave?
The average weekday rush headways on the Q train
What is 6-9 minutes, depending on the exact train?
(There is also *a* 4 minute headway scheduled in around the end of the 7 o'clock hour)
The manufacturer of the cars still used on the SIR.
What is the St. Louis Car Co.?
In 1985, a poster service for service changes on this subway line read "[Neighborhood] residents are going to be mad as hell".
What is the 7/Flushing Line?
What is Lexington Av-63 St?
This LIRR line was electrified with overhead wire instead of third rail in the 1920s.
What is The Bay Ridge Branch?
The term for a signal governing traffic at switches and major junctions.
What is a home signal (homeball)?
The two types of R211T open-gangway cars.
What are hard and soft-shell cars?
A train does this kind of run if it needs to skip stations it would regularly stop at.
What is a battery run?
This is the number of signs that say 69th Street-Fisk Avenue on the 7.
What is the number 18?
The year in which the 5th Ave Elevated was torn down.
When was 1940?
Who is John Tauranac?
This subway car set the world speed record for ANY subway car during a test run.
What is the R44
This line caused the relocation of a subway station that serves train stations in New Jersey.
What is the 6th Avenue Line?
This station was rated the dirtiest station in a Gothamist article.
What is 47-50th Streets/Rockefeller Center?
The Underbelly Project took place at this station.
What is South 4th Street?
They made the braking system on the R68s. Shorthanded as WABCO.
What is the Westinghouse Air Brake Company?