The R22 was a New York City Subway car built in 1957 for the IRT division. They were the last single cars built prior to the R33 World's Fairs in 1963-4. The last R22s were retired on December 30, 1987 with the last run being on the 5 with a solid consist of R21/R22 cars. The few remaining cars that were not scrapped were placed into work service.
Cars 7513, 7509, and 7516 were used as an automatic test train which ran revenue service on the 42nd Street Shuttle from January 1962 to April 21, 1964, when a fire partially destroyed the Grand Central Shuttle platform and several cars.[1]
A train of R22s were featured in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, a 1974 film about the hijacking of a subway car, seen in the film as number 7339, on a downtown 6 train.
Car 7371 is at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine while 7486 was also recently spotted at the 207th Street Yard and will possibly be scrapped in the future.[2] 7422 is at the New York Transit Museum coupled to R21 number 7194, both of which were money train cars.[3]
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