page_title: R38 (New York City Subway car)
hierarchical_section_title: R38 (New York City Subway car)
caption_attribution_description: A "C" train at the Kingston/Throop Avenues station, bound for the Euclid Avenue station
context_page_description: The R38 was a New York City Subway car model built by the St. Louis Car Company from 1966 to 1967 for the IND/BMT B Division. There were 200 cars in the R38 fleet, arranged in married pairs. The R38s were built to supply extra trains for service changes resulting from the 1967 opening of the Chrystie Street Connection. The R38 was the second subway car order to be built with stainless steel exteriors, after the R32, and the first subway car fleet to have air conditioning installed.
  The first R38s entered service on August 23, 1966. In 1987–1989, all R38s were rebuilt by General Electric, and the original rollsigns and express/local marker lights at the end of each car were replaced with flipdot signs. The R160 order replaced the entire fleet of R38s, the last of which ran on March 18, 2009. After retirement, almost all cars were stripped and sunken as artificial reefs, but one pair is preserved by the New York Transit Museum.
context_section_description: The R38 was a New York City Subway car model built by the St. Louis Car Company from 1966 to 1967 for the IND/BMT B Division. There were 200 cars in the R38 fleet, arranged in married pairs. The R38s were built to supply extra trains for service changes resulting from the 1967 opening of the Chrystie Street Connection. The R38 was the second subway car order to be built with stainless steel exteriors, after the R32, and the first subway car fleet to have air conditioning installed.
  The first R38s entered service on August 23, 1966. In 1987–1989, all R38s were rebuilt by General Electric, and the original rollsigns and express/local marker lights at the end of each car were replaced with flipdot signs. The R160 order replaced the entire fleet of R38s, the last of which ran on March 18, 2009. After retirement, almost all cars were stripped and sunken as artificial reefs, but one pair is preserved by the New York Transit Museum.
caption: An R38 train on the C at Kingston–Throop Avenues
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