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R30 (New York City Subway car)
🇺🇸 United States ·built by St. Louis Car Company· from 1961· class of New York City Subway car
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5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. MTA NYC R30 8506: Mtattrain· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. NYCS BMT FranklinAve BotanicGarden 70s (cropped): Stuart Gitlow, photographer· CC BY-SA 2.5
- 3. NYCS R30 Subway Car Intrerior: Eric Fischer· CC BY 2.0
- 4. NYCS-R30: BlastOButter42 at English Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. R30 Rail Adhesion Car 8429: TheVintageResurrector· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The R30 was a New York City Subway car model built by St. Louis Car Company from 1961 to 1962. The cars were a "follow-up" or supplemental stock for the B Division's R27s and closely resembled them.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 65 years ago, in 1961.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.3 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 152: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 52 years (1961–2013).
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 1961
- in service from
- 1961
- retired
- 2013
- status
- retired
- number built
- 320
- kind
- metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- St. Louis Car Company
- operators
- New York City Subway
- top speed
- 88 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- Married Pairs
- length
- 18.3 m
- weight
- 36.6 t
- capacity
- 152 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7274512, Wikipedia: R30 (New York City Subway car) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.