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bullet on the left side and rectangular signs displaying the line's terminal stations on the right side when viewed from the exterior, with the orientation being reversed when viewed from the interior. In addition, the cab ends of the cars now featured a single roll-sign, located on the opposite side of the driver's cabin, that displaying the route. When first introduced, this was a very large sign with a background corresponding to the service's color, but had been replaced with smaller signs only displaying the bullet around 1978. This replaced the overhead twin roll-signs that displayed both the route bullet and directional terminal station. This pattern became standard for all subsequent roll-signs, albeit with slight placement and design variations, until the
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conductors to lock the doors at the slant ends of each car. Meanwhile, the director of design at
Raymond Loewy claimed that there was to be no passage between subway cars; the doors were to be locked and thus the safety features would have been unneeded. In November 1968, the NYCTA began modifying the slant-ended fleet at a cost of $ 400,000 with large grab rails and pantograph gates, which effectively destroyed Loewy's design, but allowed passengers to travel safely between cars. Moreover, a transit union newspaper reported that the modifications were necessary as "there is reason to believe" the cars would be deformed if they bumped, and re-iterated that the slant ends posed a danger to passengers walking in between cars.
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design was intended to beautify the subway and was part of an effort to convince people to abandon their cars for mass-transit. On
September 20, 1966, the NYCTA announced plans to order 400 subway cars with this new design. In addition to the slanted ends, the new cars were to have wider doors and windows, easier-to-read signage, and improved interiors with light colors. Bids were opened to the public on October 1, 1966. In November 1966, the St. Louis Car Company was awarded the contract at $ 114,000 per car. The new cars cost a total of $ 46,172,041, with the cost to be split evenly between the Federal Government and the City of New York.
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systems/units found on the last ten R38 cars. From this point forward, air conditioning became standard equipment on all future subway car orders. Due to the placement of the air conditioning system, the standee poles were arranged in an alternating pattern rather than the straight-line pattern seen
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in the R40s, which lacked air conditioning systems/units until their overhauls. In addition, the exterior of an air-conditioned R40A could be told apart by its non air-conditioned R40 counterpart by examining the roof-line; cars equipped with air conditioning had significantly thinner air intakes.
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Within months of the first cars being delivered, safety concerns and controversies surrounded the new slant-ended design. Due to the lack of handholds on the slant-ends, concerns were raised that passengers walking in between cars could fall onto the tracks. As a temporary fix, the NYCTA ordered
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in 1967. Located on the upper part of the middle set of windows, the new arrangement originally used a single sign that displayed the service and termini on the outside, and a route diagram on the inside. This was later replaced by a three-sign system, with a square sign that displayed the route
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Pair 4200–4201 was badly damaged in a rear-end accident on the North
Channel Bridge on September 12, 1970 and subsequently scrapped. On February 12, 1974, pair 4420–4421 was damaged when they were rear-ended by R6 # 1236, which also suffered extensive damage due to brake failure at
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subway car order replaced all of the R40s and R40As from 2007 to 2009; the last slant-ended train ran on June 12, 2009, while the last straight-ended R40As ran on August 28, 2009. After being retired, most R40s and R40As were stripped and sunk into the
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orders in 1999, which switched to a single red LED sign up front with the route, and the sides signs displaying the current destination and the line all in yellow with LEDs and LCDs, which that became standard for the first “generation” of
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order built in 1968–1969, with the last 100 cars of the supplementary order re-designed with straight ends. The 200 original R40s and the first 100 R40As were unique for their futuristic 10-degree slanted end (designed by the firm
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subway car order replaced all of the R40s and R40As from 2007 to 2009. The R40s and slant-ended R40As were retired from
October 2007 to June 12, 2009, when the last slant-ended train made its final trip on the
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November 1967 for promoting of the Transportation Bond issue on Election Day. They were then returned to the assembly plant in
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order in 2021, with the route bullet in full color LEDs up front, the destination up top, and the side signs using a full-color LED route bullet and the destination with white LEDs.
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1304:October 16,
593:Description
486:Track gauge
335:44 (seated)
312:: 4150–4349
240:Refurbished
224:: 1968–1969
218:: 1967–1968
209:Constructed
2241:Categories
2005:Gibbs Hi-V
1732:B Division
1714:A Division
1639:B Division
1594:A Division
1492:2017-04-30
1467:2017-04-30
1442:2017-04-30
1417:2022-01-28
1392:2015-01-29
1363:2015-01-29
1334:2015-01-29
1274:2017-04-30
1249:2017-04-30
1223:31 January
1136:31 January
1091:31 January
1064:2015-05-11
1014:2021-04-27
984:References
869:Retirement
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655:4250–4349
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555:R40 Slants
538:B Division
363:Car length
164:In service
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2108:SIRT ME-1
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340:Operators
293:Successor
243:1987–1989
167:1968–2009
2055:Elevated
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1754:(R-type)
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332:Capacity
263:200 R40s
248:Scrapped
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182:Built at
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