R22 (New York City Subway car)

R22
Heavily vandalized R22 car on the .
Manufacturer	St. Louis Car Company
Built at	St. Louis, Missouri
Replaced	1987
Constructed	1957-1958
Number built	450
Number in service	(16 in work service)
Number preserved	2
Number scrapped	431 (+1 in storage)
Fleet numbers	7300-7524 (Westinghouse) 7525-7749 (General Electric)
Capacity	44 (seated)
Operator(s)	New York City Transit Authority
Specifications
Car body construction	LAHT Carbon steel
Car length	51 ft 0.5 in (15.56 m)
Width	8 ft 9 in (2,667 mm)
Height	11 ft 10 in (3,607 mm)
Doors	6
Maximum speed	55 mph (89 km/h)
Weight	General Electric cars: 77,607 lb (35,202 kg) Westinghouse cars: 78,604 lb (35,654 kg)
Traction system	Westinghouse 1447C or General Electric 1240A4
Power output	100 hp (75 kW) per traction motor
Electric system(s)	600 V DC Third rail
Current collection method	Top running Contact shoe
Braking system(s)	WABCO ME42A
Track gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)

The R22 was a New York City Subway car model built in 1957–1958 by the St. Louis Car Company for the IRT division.

The R22s were numbered 7300-7749. The cars were a "follow-up" or supplemental stock for the "A" Division's R21s and closely resemble them. They were the last single cars built prior to the R33 World's Fair cars in 1963-1964.

The fleet had two-paned storm door windows that could be opened by dropping down the upper window, though cars 7515-24 had single drop sash windows instead. Those cars also had Plextone-painted interiors and pink-molded fiberglass seats.

The R22s were the first cars to have sealed beam headlights.

The R22s first entered service on April 13, 1957, starting to replace most of the IRT "high voltage" type cars. The R22s ran in service for most of their service lives on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line painted in green livery.

Cars 7513, 7509, 7516, 7654, 7675 (the interior of which Bernhard Goetz's vigilante action was filmed in), and 7686 were used as an automatic test train which ran revenue service on the 42nd Street Shuttle starting in January 1962. The experiment ended on April 21, 1964, when a fire partially destroyed the Grand Central Shuttle platform as well as car 7740. Cars 7509, 7513, and 7516 were not in use at the time; thus they were not damaged in the fire, but the cars never returned to revenue service. In 1973, car 7509 was converted to the 64-foot (19.51 m) test car XC375, which operated on various IRT lines until April 1982, and scrapped on July 12, 1996.

Though a very dependable fleet, the R22s, being single units, were not rebuilt, but replaced in the mid-1980s by the R62s and R62As. The last train made its final trip on December 30, 1987, on the 5 service with a solid consist of R21s.