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R40 (New York City Subway car)
🇺🇸 United States ·built by St. Louis Car Company· from 1968· class of New York City Subway car
8 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NYC Subway R40A 4444 R40M 4549: AEMoreira042281· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. NYCS R40 front: Oren H.· Attribution
- 3. R40 A train: The Legendary Ranger ( talk )· Public domain
- 4. R40 B train: The Legendary Ranger ( talk )· Public domain
- 5. R40 C train @ W4-WashingtonSq: The Legendary Ranger ( talk )· Public domain
- 6. R40 D train: [2]· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. R40 Slant: Youngking11· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. R40 W train at Whitehall Street: Error46146 at English Wikipedia· CC BY 2.5
what is it?
The R40 was a New York City Subway car model built by the St. Louis Car Company from 1967 to 1969 for the IND/BMT B Division. There were 400 cars in the R40 fleet, arranged in married pairs.
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 58 years ago, in 1968.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.3 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 45 years (1968–2013).
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 1968
- in service from
- 1968
- retired
- 2013
- status
- retired
- number built
- 400
- 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
- length
- 18.3 m
- weight
- 35.2 t
- capacity
- 44 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7274723, Wikipedia: R40 (New York City Subway car) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.