page_title: New York City Subway rolling stock
section_title: Miscellaneous
hierarchical_section_title: New York City Subway rolling stock / Miscellaneous
caption_attribution_description: English: The Train of Many Colors, with 9010 in the 1970s scheme at the tail, sits at the then-Willets Point-Shea Stadium station. The train, which also ran on Opening Day 2008, was run for the closing day of Shea Stadium.
context_page_description: The New York City Subway is a large rapid transit system and has a large fleet of rolling stock. As of November 2016, the New York City Subway has 6418 cars on the roster.
  The system maintains two separate fleets of passenger cars: one for the A Division routes, the other for the B Division routes. All A Division equipment is approximately 8 feet 9 inches wide and 51 feet long. B Division cars, on the other hand, are about 10 feet wide and either 60 feet 6 inches or 75 feet 6 inches long. The A Division and B Division trains operate only in their own division; operating in the other division is not allowed. All rolling stock, in both the A and B Divisions, run on the same 4 foot 8.5 inches standard gauge and use the same third-rail geometry and voltage. A typical revenue train consists of 8 to 10 cars, although in practice, range between 2 and 11 cars.
  The subway's rolling stock have operated under the Interborough Rapid Transit, Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit, Independent Subway System, and their merge to the now-called New York City Transit Authority.
context_section_description: Air conditioning is standard on all cars R42 and later. R38s 4140–4149 and R40s 4350–4549 were also delivered with A/C, and all cars not equipped with A/C from classes R26-R40 (with the exception of the R27, R30, and R33S) were later retrofitted with A/C. All active cars are equipped with air conditioning and cars with malfunctioning air conditioning are not supposed to be put into service.
  During World War II, a group of old New York elevated line cars dating from the late 19th century was sent west to the San Francisco Bay Area by the United States Maritime Commission for use by the Shipyard Railway, a temporary wartime electric line transporting workers to the Kaiser Shipyards. After the war, most were sold to be used as units in a local motel, but their whereabouts afterwards is unknown. Two of them however were acquired and have been restored by the Western Railway Museum in Rio Vista, California.
  There are many examples of rolling stock built under contract which are not intended for revenue service, such as the R95 money train, R65 pump train, R127/R134 garbage train and R156 work locomotive.
  The table below shows what year the TA had expected to retire several car models in 1981.
caption: The "Train of Many Colors" makes another appearance on the 7 train in 2008, commemorating the last game at Shea Stadium
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