Thanks to Edrick Ang for news that New York City Transit Authority 3007, shown above, was moved to the New York Transit Museum today. Thanks also to James McGinty, who posted this photo on Facebook. The car has apparently been spruced up and made presentable for display as an historic artifact. As such, I've added it to the PNAERC list.
Car 3007 is pretty unusual. It's one of nine R110B type cars built in 1992 for the IND/BMT side of the New York subway system as part of the "New Technology" test program. These cars (and 10 type R110A cars built for the IRT side of the system at the same time) were intended from the start as prototypes, not production cars, and they spent less than a decade in service. The last of the R110B cars were withdrawn from service in 1992, but at least some have simply been stored since then. The R110B cars were permanently arranged into three-car trains, motor-trailer-motor, and car 3007 is one of the motor cars. It has relatively early AC traction motors and chopper control. Quite a bit more information on these cars can be found here.
The PNAERC list now includes 2,091 cars in all.
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