Openbve R30 on the #6 pickup Garbage train from Astoria To Brighton

The R30s were coupled together as pairs.[1] These cars, along with their identical R27 sister cars, replaced the oldest BMT Standards There were three versions of the R30. The two R30 types were Westinghouse XCA248-powered equipped cars (8412–8569) and General Electric MCM-powered cars (8250-8351). Cars 8352–8411 were R30As and were equipped with GE SCM controllers. The R30As were the first New York City Subway cars to be equipped with this system. The R30s were primarily BMT Eastern Division cars, although they would appear in the northern and southern divisions from time to time. Like their R27 sister units, the R30s wore several paint schemes over the course of their career. The cars were delivered in a dark olive green paint scheme, and many were repainted bright red in the late 1960s before receiving the MTA corporate silver and blue scheme in 1970. The rebuilt R30s were finished in a fox red color and were called the BMT Redbirds. The unrebuilt R30s, which were Westinghouse cars numbered 8412-8569, were also painted red in the mid-1980s. From 1985 until 1989, all GE-powered R30s and R30As were rebuilt and painted in the fox red paint scheme, similar to the 27 R27s and other Redbird trains in the subway system, as part of the Clean Car Program. The unrebuilt R30s were replaced by the R68As and the rebuilt R30s, which were transferred from the BMT Eastern Division. The last unrebuilt train ran on December 14, 1990. The overhauled R30s and the R30As were planned to run for many years to come, but were prematurely phased out as the Transit Authority deemed them too difficult to upgrade with air-conditioning (which would have been costly and would have added too much weight to the cars). Additionally, at the time, ridership was declining on the subway, which created a surplus of subway cars After retirement, the R27s were scrapped. The new parts used for the rebuilding of the R30s and R30As (including cam control groups and braking systems) were salvaged and re-installed on GE-powered R36WFs 9558-9769 between 1992-1993 to improve their reliability. Some R30 cars were saved for various purposes throughout the New York City Subway system, including: In Popular Culture[edit] A train of R30s was featured in the film Ghost running as a J train. In the 1993 film Carlito's Way with Al Pacino, R30s were used during the chase scene near the end of the film. Cars 8275, 8277, 8330, 8332, 8335, 8340, and 8351 were seen among others. These trains displayed the 1 Broadway Local rollsigns. For the 1995 film Money Train, two 3-car sets of GE R30s were retrofitted with extra bright lights in the bottom of the car. They were 8294, 8298, 8394-8395, 8397, and 8408. A single four-car set also appeared in the movie. This four-car set included cars 8463, 8510, 8558, and 8569, which were filmed running on New York City Transit property.[3][4] In the 1995 film Die Hard with a Vengeance, a set of GE R30s was used for the scene when the rear car of a Brooklyn-bound 3 train is derailed at Wall Street station, demolishing many of the station's support columns. In the 1998 movie Godzilla, a partially destroyed R30 car, 8410, was used for an underground scene. All five movie appearances mentioned above depict the R30 cars in the Redbird paint scheme. A simulated version of the R30 interior was featured in the opening credits of Season 2 of the television show Everybody Hates Chris. Various R30s were shown in the 1982 made-for-TV film Dreams Don't Die, depicting the R30s in the MTA Silver/Blue livery and the beige and orange interiors filmed near Fresh Pond Road Station on the M line. A scene in the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever shows a train of R30As running on the R train For more Development on Openbve join this group @https://www.facebook.com/groups/utmands Thank you for watching and please subscribe