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Re: [2 PHOTOS] When The R-40M's Were New

Posted by Bill Newkirk on Tue Jun 6 07:18:52 2017, in response to Re: [PHOTO] When The R-40M's Were New, posted by randyo on Tue Jun 6 01:19:13 2017.

At some point some enterprising person from Car Equipment who had nothing better to do noticed that the windows didn’t quite match the profiles of the side windows on the cars and so the bottom few inches on the end windows were painted black in an attempt to make the “window line” uniform.

Line: IND Crosstown Line...Location: Church Avenue... Route: F
Car: R-40M (St. Louis, 1969) 4277... Photo by: Doug Grotjahn
Collection of: Joe Testagrose...Date: 9/12/1968...from nycsubway.org
Eventually, during various repaintings then black area was eliminated and the fronts just painted silver above the blue band. ">


Location: Coney Island Yard...Car: R-40M (St. Louis, 1969) 4455 (ex-4255)...Photo by: Steve Zabel...Collection of: Joe Testagrose...Date: 4/18/1978...from nycsubway.org