R28 (New York City Subway car)
The R28 was a New York City Subway car model built by American Car and Foundry (ACF) from 1960 to 1961. The cars were a "follow-up" or supplemental stock for the A Division's R26s and closely resemble them. The average car cost per R28 was $114,495. A total of 100 cars were built, arranged in married pairs.
R28s 7926 and 7927 on display at the Illinois Railway Museum
American Car and Foundry Company
ACF Industries, originally the American Car and Foundry Company, is an American manufacturer of railroad rolling stock. One of its subsidiaries was once (1925–54) a manufacturer of motor coaches and trolley coaches under the brand names of (first) ACF and (later) ACF-Brill. Today, the company is known as ACF Industries LLC and is based in St. Charles, Missouri. It is owned by investor Carl Icahn.
A 1907 postcard depicting the ACF plant in St. Charles, Missouri
A refrigerator car built by ACF in 1911
External-braced wooden boxcar built for sugar service in Cuba by ACF, c. 1922
ACF railcar M-300, built in 1935, on the California Western Railroad in 1970