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R-16 (ACF, 1955)

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Roster

Designation Unit Numbers Manufacturer Years
R-16 6300-6499 American Car & Foundry 1955


Length over
Anticlimbers

60' 2.5"
Width at
Door Sills

10' 0"
Total
Weight

84,532/86,270
Height from
Railhead

12' 2"
Height, Railhead
to Floor

3' 9 1/8"
Seating
Capacity

54

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Image 2943

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Photo by: Joe Testagrose
Location: Fort Hamilton Parkway

Image 2972

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Photo by: Doug Grotjahn
Collection of: Joe Testagrose
Location: 42nd Street/Bryant Park

Image 26667

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Photo by: Steve Zabel
Collection of: Joe Testagrose
Location: 36th-38th Street Yard

Image 139310

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Photo by: Daniel Negron
Location: 207th Street Yard

Image 141863

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Collection of: Frank Pfuhler
Location: Williamsburg Bridge
     


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Car Notes

Green Preserved, saved for preservation,
or exists in some state
Yellow Converted to work service
(and later scrapped or still in use)
Red Wrecked/Damaged in accident (and possibly repaired),
or scrapped prior to the bulk of the type

Number Notes
6304 Derailed, hit pillar near Roosevelt Ave., 5/20/1970.
6305 Survives at Coney Island Yard. Possibly operational; recently had some paint work done on exterior.

Image 2925

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Photo by: Sidney Keyles
Location: Coney Island Yard-Museum Yard

Image 24456

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Photo by: David Pirmann
Location: Coney Island Yard-Museum Yard
   


6318 Paired for a time with R-27 8120.
6318, 6463 Outfitted in gold exterior paint for celebration of the 50th anniversary of the subway. (1950's)
6339 Survives at Coney Island Yard.

Image 2951

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Photo by: Joe Testagrose
Location: Queens Plaza

Image 7623

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Photo by: Salaam Allah
Location: Coney Island Yard-Museum Yard

Image 24457

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Photo by: David Pirmann
Location: Coney Island Yard-Museum Yard
  


6387 New York Transit Museum collection. Car 6387 had been on static display inoperable but in 2014 was returned to operational status and operated a Transit Museum Nostalgia Train trip on August 3, 2014.

Image 3061

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Photo by: David Pirmann
Location: New York Transit Museum

Image 3062

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Photo by: David Pirmann
Location: New York Transit Museum

Image 3063

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Photo by: Sidney Keyles
Location: New York Transit Museum

Image 139308

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Photo by: Daniel Negron
Location: 207th Street Yard
 


6398 Trolley Museum of New York collection.

Image 3057

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Photo by: Harold Greenblatt
Location: 207th Street Yard

Image 3058

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Photo by: Harold Greenblatt
Location: Walkill, NY enroute to TMNY

Image 3059

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Photo by: Harold Greenblatt

Image 3060

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Photo by: Harold Greenblatt
 


6400-6424 No standee poles, as a test of passenger space utilization.
6400, 6418 Swapped numbers in 1964.
6452 Located until July, 2004 at P.S. 248, Brooklyn (a NYCT training facility). Was used as a training car. Painted in redbird scheme; not operational. In July 2004, car was removed to Linden Yard, Brooklyn, and will be replaced at P.S. 248 with R-110B 3005. 6452 was moved in 2005 to Coney Island Yard. In July 2007, the car was moved to the SBK yard for asbestos abatement and scrapping.

Image 3024

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Photo by: Trevor Logan
Location: PS 248-MTA Learning Center

Image 17698

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Photo by: Michael Pompili

Image 17699

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Photo by: Michael Pompili
Location: Coney Island Yard

Image 71556

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Photo by: John Barnes
Location: SBK Yard (2nd Ave at 38th St.) (SBK)
 


6494 Rear-ended by a BMT Standard; pushed against bumping block at Broad St., 9/26/1957. Good end of 6494 used to repair R-27 8217.

Image 150171

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Photo by: George Abere, Jr.
Collection of: Newkirk Images LLC
Location: Coney Island Yard

Image 150172

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Photo by: George Abere, Jr.
Collection of: Newkirk Images LLC
Location: Coney Island Yard
   











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