R1-R9 New York City Subway Cars at Rockaway Park Part 3

Filmed on June 15, 2008 as part of the NY Transit Museum's "50 Years to Far Rockaway" fan trip. This is the consist moving from the layover track at Beach 116 Street to switch over to the revenus service track to pick up passengers for the fan trip's end in midtown-Manhattan. The consist is as follows: R1 381, R4 401, R9 1802, R7A 1575, R4 484 & R1 100.

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[ArtyKing12345]

I saw a video of the R-9 1689 (The one in new haven right now) in coney island. Why was it there?? Did they truck it down for 1 trip or something??

[RailFanTV]

@ArtyKing12345

LOL! Dude I hate to tell ya, but you got "punk'd." That was actually R9 #1802 - they took the number plate from the car in Connecticut and put it on 1802 to make people think it was 1689.

[kmothersil]

How many of these cars do they have in operation condition?

[RailFanTV]

If you mean how many in service, then zero. However the NY Transit Museum owns 3 of the cars seen here - 100, 484 & 1575, while the other 3 are stored at the Coney Island Yard & Overhaul Shop and they're owned by the Railway Preservation Corp. There are also a few kept at other museums such as the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, ME and the Shore Line Trolley Museum in Connecticut - some are still operable. But these are the 6 that normally run when the Transit Museum does fan trips.

[R160A]

If I'm not mistkaen, R1 # 100 is the first car ordered by the IND

[RailFanTV]

That is correct. They first tested those on the BMT Sea Beach Line (today's N-train in Brooklyn) in 1930 before sending them into service when the IND opened in Seotember of 1932.

[AdmiralArcher]

WOW! When will the MTA go "ret'ro" again? I miss the RetroTrains.

[ArtyKing12345]

@RailFanTV oh, alright. LOL, we're goin to the shore line museum soon anyway, so yeah lol

[murjax]

That's sweet.