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Bluebird Compartment Car (New York City Subway car) - The Bluebird, formally dubbed Compartment Car by its purchaser, the, was an advanced design PCC subway and elevated railway car used on the New York City Subway system from 1939 to 1962.
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  Bluebird Compartment Car (New York City Subway car) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bluebird, formally dubbed Compartment Car by its purchaser, the BMT, was an advanced design PCC subway and elevated railway car used on the New York City Subway system from 1939 to 1962.
The car's lightweight body and running gear, combined with its short truckbase and segmented body, permitted it to operate on the oldest elevated structures, with their light loading tolerance and sharp curves, as well as in tunnel sections, where policy prohibited the use of the wooden cars typically used on elevateds.
Bluebirds were the first PCC rapid transit cars utilizing the advanced running gear originally created for new-design streetcars.
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 R44 (New York City Subway car) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The R44 is a model of passenger train car which operates on the New York City Subway and the Staten Island Railway.
The R44 was the first 75 foot (23 m) car for the New York City Subway.
The R44 was the first subway car since the BMT Green Hornet in which a warning tone sounded immediately before the doors begin to close as the train prepares to leave the station.
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The Bluebird, formally dubbed Compartment Car by its purchaser, the, was an advanced design PCC subway and elevated railway car used on the New York City subway system from 1939 to 1962.
Historians disagree as to whether the term "BU" was commonly used before the was purchased by the City of New York in 1940, or whether it was mainly an introduced term to describe the wooden elevated cars of the former private company.
The primary distinguishing feature of BU cars is that they were elevated cars built mostly or substantially of wood with or without steel frames, where passenger access to the cars was provided by open platforms at both ends of each car.
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 R110A (New York City Subway car) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The center car of the 5 is an unpowered trailer, and the other 2 cars powered by 2 traction motors each.
The cab is computerized, with a control stand consisting of a single lever for traction and braking control, a reversing key, a small numeric and symbol keypad, and a LCD flat panel display.
The configuration is now parallel across from front back facing -- rather like the R62 cars, but with one side shifted from the other, so that the front/back facing seats are opposite benches which are parallel to the side of the car similar to R68 configuration seating.
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 Bluebirds - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Bluebirds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The eastern bluebird is found throughout the eastern part of North America, where it may be seen perching on fences.
Bluebirds nest in holes in tree trunks; both male and female build the nest.
The eastern bluebird Sialia sialis is regarded as the herald of spring as it returns from migration.
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 R143 (New York City Subway car) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These cars are very similar to the Kawasaki R142A in terms of interior appointments, door motors, strip maps, grab bars, etc., and they incorporate much of the R110B New Technology Train's advanced features.
The primary order included 100 cars with an option order of an additional 112 cars, and they began to arrive in late 2001.
The R143 cars are in 4-car sets to be used on the BMT Eastern Division, particularly the L line, which will be resignaled to take advantage of the R143's CBTC capability.
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 R1 (New York City Subway car) - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The R1 subway car was the first order of original passenger stock for the IND New York City Subway.
The first R1 cars to see passenger service were sixteen individual cars that were placed in revenue service on the BMT Sea Beach Line in 1931 for testing and returned to the IND the same year.
The BMT was to have been paid by the City of New York for the testing but, since they were fairly extensively used in service (made up as two 8-car trains) the BMT and City called it even.
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 R46 (New York City Subway car) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The R46 subway car was built by Pullman Standard in Chicago, Illinois in 1975-1978 for the IND and BMT routes of the New York Subway.
The R46 order was 754 cars and numbered from 500-1278, after being rebuilt in 1990-1991 they were renumbered to 5482-6258.
Only a few years before, it was the R-16 series of subway cars that were considered the least reliable in the system, and they were ironically taking the place of the newest cars in the fleet.
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Bluebird Compartment Car (New York City Subway car) - The Bluebird, formally dubbed Compartment Car by its purchaser, the, was an advanced design PCC subway and elevated railway car used on the New York City Subway system from 1939 to 1962.
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 Car Part Rochester New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
They give New Yorkers a powerful symbol of their metropolis, one that they use to express both their hopes car part rochester new york and their fears for the urban future.
Brooks traces the development of the subway from its inception as the newest car part rochester new york and most efficient public transportation system to its decline as an overcrowded car part rochester new york and dangerous part of city life.
The crowded cars gave Harold Lloyd material for comedy, fueled William Randolph Hearst's crusade against the Traction Trust, car part rochester new york and convinced Lewis Mumford that the subway was a futile effort to solve the city's problems.
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Cars is a commune in the Gironde ''département'', in France.
The Cars were an American new wave band, one of the most popular to emerge out of the early punk scene in the late 1970s.
The Cars successfully bridged the gap between the guitar-oriented rock of the 1970s and the synth-oriented pop of the early 1980s.
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 AB Standard (New York City Subway car) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The AB Standard was a subway car of the U.S. Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and its successors.
These cars were commonly referred to as BRT Standards or BMT Standards (for their operator BMT after 1923).
Cars 2000-2599 were built by the American Car and Foundry Company and the remainder, motor cars 2600-2899 and trailer cars 4000-4049 by the Pressed Steel Car Company.
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 R42 (New York City Subway car) Did You Mean r42_(new_york_city_subway_car)_3878   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The R42, built in 1969-1970 was the last 60' IND-BMT car in the New York City Subway until the R143 in 2001 and the last model class to be built as pairs (mated sets).
Louis Car Co. in Saint Louis, Missouri, these were the first fully original air-conditioned car class in the New York City Subway.
Cars 4554-4556 was the first R42s in service on May 9, 1969 (in a mixed train on the Sea Beach line).
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 Hybrid Car
The Empeg Car was a linux-based unit that transferred MP3 tracks from the user's computer to the player via USB, Ethernet, or a serial port connection.
On November 1st 2000 Empeg ltd. was acquired by SONICblue Incorporated and the unit was renamed the Rio Car.
Despite their owner's strong devotion to the product sales of new units were modest and on September 24 2001 SONICblue discontinued the line.
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 The Third Rail - Back to the Future - page 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The BMT used a new term to describe the three-section Bluebird: “compartment car.” Inside and out, the Bluebird’s art deco design was a gem of modernity and comfort.
New York’s car design department specified how the equipment was to be built, down to the last nut and bolt.
New York, which with its BMT was the national leader in transit, had become the industry’s albatross.
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York City Subway car rebuilt in 1938 by the BMT for elevated railway service to.
City Subway car in the 1200 and 1400 kits series, elevated stock originally built.
The oldest of the cars were in revenue service for 66 years, currently the longest.
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 Donating Car   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Car donation refers to the practice of giving away no-longer-wanted automobiles to charity organizations.
Some have their own car lots which sell the donated cars but many have their donations processed through auto auction companies.
This type of donation existed before the year 2000 (I donated cars in 1994 and again in 1994), and I'm not aware of any such measurement of popularity, let alone how noting popularity adds to the article.
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 Car Raffle
The raffle either involves many people buying tickets then at a set date the winners being drawn from a bucket containing copy of every number or a tombola where a ticket is bought then checked against a collection of prizes with numbers attached to them.
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (6 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was the founder of the city (now country) of Singapore, and is one of the best-known of the many Britons who created the largest empire the world has ever seen.
By the time he left for good in 1823, the city was on its way to become the largest port in the world.
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 Car Paint Scratches -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Scratching is a DJ or turntablist technique originated by Grand Wizard Theodore, an early hip hop DJ from New York (AMG).
The technique is designed to accentuate the work of the DJ by creating an assortment of sounds through the rhythmical manipulation of a vinyl record, and has spread from hip hop culture to a number of other musical forms.
A scratch is physical damage such as a groove in a physical surface such as a painted or unpainted surface, or the skin.
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Union Tank Car Company or UTLX (their most well known AAR reporting mark) is a railway equipment leasing company (and car maintenance/ manufacturing) headquartered in metro Chicago, Illinois.
Cars are weighed to ensure they are within the axle load limits of the railroad, and to determine (by subtracting the car's unloaded, or tare weight from the total weight) the amount...
Most cars carry a revenue load, although non-revenue cars exist for the railroad's own use, such as for maintenance-of-way purposes.
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 R142 (New York City Subway car) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
R142 is the model class of the newest generation of IRT cars for the New York Subway.
Built by Bombardier in Plattsburgh, New York and Barre, Vermont from 1999-2002, these 1,060 cars, along with the R142A will be the new backbone of the IRT fleet.
The R142 cars have Alstom ONIX AC propulsion, electronic braking, automatic climate control, and an on-board intercom system.
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 R160B (New York City Subway car) Did You Mean r160b_(new_york_city_subway_car)_3c77   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This, so far, is the newest and possibly the largest car order in the New York City Subway history.
These cars dubbed as R160B will be built by the Kawasaki Rail Car Company in 260 cars part of the total 660 car R160 primary contract.
28th May, 2005, the first test cars will be delivered in Summer, 2005 to see the first hand look of the R160 cars performing in the subways.
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