R-40 In Progress Photographs St Louis Cars 4350-4549 4150-4249 NYC Subway Slants

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Spiral Bound. 4to. New York Transit Auhority, No Date (1969?). Unpaginated (15 double sided black and white photos). Illustrated with black and white photographs of R-40 trains. Wrappers worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Previous owner's name present to the title page and the front wrapper.. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 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. Two versions of the R40 were manufactured: the original 200-car R40 order built in 1967–1968, and the supplementary 200-car R40A order built in 1968–1969. The 200 original R40s and the first 100 R40As were unique for their futuristic 10-degree slanted end (designed by the firm Raymond Loewy and Associates) and were nicknamed the R40 Slants or simply Slants.
R-40 In Progress Photographs St Louis Cars 4350-4549 4150-4249 NYC Subway Slants
R-40 In Progress Photographs St Louis Cars 4350-4549 4150-4249 NYC Subway Slants
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Up For Sale Today is
R-40 In Progress
Photographs
St. Louis Car
Cars No. 4350-4549, 4150-4249
Spiral Bound. 4to. New York Transit Auhority, No Date (1969?). Unpaginated (15 double sided black and white photos). Illustrated with black and white photographs of R-40 trains.
Wrappers worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Previous owner's name present to the title page and the front wrapper.. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
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. Two versions of the R40 were manufactured: the original 200-car R40 order built in 1967–1968, and the supplementary 200-car R40A order built in 1968–1969. The 200 original R40s and the first 100 R40As were unique for their futuristic 10-degree slanted end (designed by the firm Raymond Loewy and Associates) and were nicknamed the R40 Slants or simply Slants.
The first R40s entered service on March 23, 1968. Various modifications were made over the years to the R40 fleet, including a complete redesign to the last 100 R40As. In 1987–1989, the R40s and R40As were rebuilt by Sumitomo. The R160 subway car order replaced all of the R40s and R40As from 2007 to 2009; the last slant-ended train ran on June 12, 2009, while the last straight-ended R40As ran on August 28, 2009. After being retired, most R40s and R40As were sunk into the ocean as artificial reefs, but a pair of R40 slants and several straight-ended R40As have survived.
The St. Louis Car Company was a major United States manufacturer of railroad passenger cars, streetcars, trolleybuses and locomotives that existed from 1887 to 1974, based in St. Louis, Missouri.
In 1960, St. Louis Car Company was acquired by General Steel Industries. In 1964, St. Louis Car completed an order of 430 World's Fair picture-window cars (R36 WF) for the New York City Subway and was building 162 PA-1s (110 single units, 52 trailers) for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for their use on the Port Authority Trans-Hudson line to New Jersey. Also in the mid-1960s, the company completed building the passenger capsules, designed by Planet Corporation, to ferry visitors to the top of the Gateway Arch at the Gateway Arch National Park (then known as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial) in St. Louis, Missouri.
St. Louis Car continued business until 1968 and finally ceased operations by 1974. The final St. Louis Car products were R44 subway cars for the New York City Subway and Staten Island Rapid Transit, and the USDOT State of the Art Car rapid transit demonstrator set whose design was based on the R44.
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4
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8
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8º
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8
16
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12º
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12
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16mo
16
32
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18º
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36
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32mo
32
64
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48
96
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128
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