R12 (New York City Subway car): Difference between revisions

The R12s were the first post-war city-owned rolling stock for the [[Interborough Rapid Transit Company|IRT]] [[A Division (New York City Subway)|A Division]]. The first of these entered service on July 13, 1948; the fleet initially ran on the [[IRT Flushing Line]] until the [[R33 World's Fair (New York City Subway car)|R33S]] and [[R36 World's Fair (New York City Subway car)|R36 World's Fair]] fleets were delivered in the 1960s. The R12s were retired in the early 1980s due to service reductions prior to the delivery of the [[R62 (New York City Subway car)|R62]] fleet in the mid-1980s, and the final train of R12s ran in September 1981. Two R12 cars were saved for the [[New York Transit Museum]], while the rest were scrapped.

 

==Description==

The R12s were numbered 5703–5802. They were the first mass-produced cars to feature electric door motors, as opposed to air-powered door motors (The [[R11/R34 (New York City Subway car)|R11/R34]] prototypes were the very first cars with such features).