R21 (New York City Subway car)
The R21 was a New York City Subway car built by St. Louis Car Company from 1956 to 1957 for the IRT A Division. A total of 250 cars were built, arranged as single units. Two versions were manufactured: Westinghouse (WH)-powered cars and General Electric (GE)-powered cars.
Graffiti-covered 7132 on the 5
Car 0R714 on display at the New York Transit Museum
Car 7203, rebuilt for use in the film Money Train and numbered 51050
The St. Louis Car Company was a major United States manufacturer of railroad passenger cars, streetcars, interurbans, trolleybuses and locomotives that existed from 1887 to 1974, based in St. Louis, Missouri.
“ST. LOUIS CAR CO. ST. LOUIS MO.” “Builders of Electric Cars of every kind” in Electric Railway Review, 1908
A St. Louis Car-built trolley bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1967
One of the few surviving Lisbon's São Luís type cars (series 400–474): of the original batch of 75 units, imported in 1901 and retired up to 1973, most were scrapped, three remain operational in Lisbon (a museum car restored to original condition and two modified for tourist duty since 1965, fitted with luxury upholstering — No.2, former No.435, on the photo), and five saw heritage use in Detroit in 1978–2003.
