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The R211 is a new technology train (NTT) New York City Subway car being built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing for the B Division and the Staten Island Railway (SIR). They will replace two aging subway car models: all R44 cars on the Staten Island Railway and all R46 subway cars.
Evolution of New York City subways: An illustrated history of New York City's transit cars, 1867–1997. New York Transit Museum Press, New York, 1997. ISBN 978-0-9637492-8-4. Kramer, Frederick A. Building the Independent Subway. Quadrant Press, Inc.; New York, 1990. ISBN 0-915276-50-X; Cudahy, Brian J. Under the Sidewalks of New York: The ...
New Technology Trains ( NTT) [1] [2] [3] are the terms for the modern passenger fleet of the New York City Subway that has entered service since 2000. This includes the current R142, R142A, R143, R160, R179, R188 and R211 models, along with the planned R262 and R268 models, along with the 2 prototypes, the R110A and R110B, that were used to ...
The R211 cars will be the first open gangway cars — meaning they offer open views and movement from one end of a train to the other — in modern U.S. subway history, MTA officials said.
MTA unveiled their long-awaited R211 subway cars Thursday. Officials literally pulled a curtain to reveal the city's first look at what could be a 1,600-car fleet crisscrossing subway lines.
UPPER MANHATTAN, NY — Upper Manhattanites that ride the A train will now be greeted with a new type of subway car that comes with wider doors, security cameras, and digital screens. The R211 ...
All rolling stock, in both the A and B Divisions, run on the same 4 foot 8.5 inches (1,435 mm) standard gauge and use the same third-rail geometry and voltage. A typical revenue train consists of 8 to 10 cars, although in practice they can range between 2 and 11 cars.
BED-STUY, NY — A shiny new subway train joined the A-line's fleet Thursday as authorities announced shorter weekend wait times on the G, J and M lines. Starting Sunday, weekend commuters can ...
Most trains on the New York City Subway are manually operated. As of 2022, the system currently uses automatic block signaling, with fixed wayside signals and automatic train stops. Many portions of the signaling system were installed between the 1930s and 1960s.
By annual ridership, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit system in both the Western Hemisphere and the Western world, as well as the eleventh-busiest rapid transit rail system in the world. [18] The subway carried 2,027,286,000 riders in 2023.