All right, who's going to be the first to model this?


http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?39343

...No one would dare manufacture this contraption, since only you and I (and maybe a few other die hard subway fanatics on this forum) would want one (or even know what this is!) Talk about a limited market! It probably wouldn't be too hard to kitbash a clearance test car however from an unwanted body shell. Is anybody up to the challenge?

Elliot

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Originally posted by 351_DD-1:
All right, who's going to be the first to model this?


http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?39343

hopefully no one...

Looks like it was once an R-12. Wonder what it did to deserve that extreme makeover?

Hey Gladstone I see you're from Briarwood - I grew up on Coolidge Ave off Parsons.

You're right. It WAS an R12. It was converted in 1973 to a 75-foot clearance test car. Fitted with those winged appendages, it was used for tunnel and platform clearance testing around the system to test the feasability of ordering longer cars for the IRT division. Both the car and the idea were later scrapped.

Elliot

I would have never guessed.