MTA - New York - SMEE Equipment Charter (R12 R15 R33s R36) - June 2003

You can find all Barry Train videos at youtube.com/@barrytrain662/videos Charter Equipment Car Number Builder Delivery 5760 R12 American Car and Foundry Company 1948 6239 R15 American Car and Foundry Company 1950 6609 R17 St. Louis Car Company 1955 World’s Fair 9306 R33S St. Louis Car Company 1963 9472 R36 St. Louis Car Company 1963 9473 R36 St. Louis Car Company 1963 9628 R36 St. Louis Car Company 1963 9629 R36 St. Louis Car Company 1963 9660 R36 St. Louis Car Company 1963 9661 R36 St. Louis Car Company 1963 S M E E S - Straight Air (brake pressure controlled directly by operator. M - Motorman's Valve present on car E - Electric Control E - Emergency Braking These cars had a number of improvements over the old designs, newly designed trucks and more powerful motors, door motor improvements, lighting improvements, etc., and a new type of braking system, the "SMEE": Straight Air Motor Car Electric-Pneumatic Emergency, which combined dynamic and air braking in a single package. It was common up until the General Overhaul period in the late 1980s to see trains made up of different car types in different liveries. This video was made in June 2003.