New York City's R-32 subway cars reach the end of the line
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- The New York City subway system has been up and running for more than a century, but through the decades, the cars passengers ride in have always been evolving. As CBS' Errol Barnett reports, the most recent upgrade has finally taken some legendary cars off the tracks.
Grew up riding these. Pretty and gaudy. Loud and bumpy. Loved them.
Facts lol
Will they stop running trains with the orange and yellow seats?
@@DR-om9ce Those will all be retired by (hopefully) 2030. They still have some time; all were built in the 1980s.
@@davidng2336 I hate those ones
@@DR-om9ce You are not alone. Meanwhile PATH's fleet is 100% bucket seating, the same style used on the subway trains with the yellow and orange seats. Blue if the seats were repainted.
These had the BEST A/C in them during hot summer months in NY
And the BEST heaters. Those seats were toasty AF!
These were like roller coasters. They were fun to ride in front looking out the window feeling the breeze flow in. RIP
Facts
Yea, when I was a kid I used to stand at the front of the E train and feel like I was on a ride. I'd be so disappointed if someone was already in that spot.
So long R32s - you will be missed! At least we have some saved in the museum.
R.I.P - 1964 - 2022
The C train is the last I got on wit that type
Same
Yes, 155th & St. Nicholas for me.
The homeless will miss this train the most.
Rats too 😂😂
Don't disrespect the r32s like that
Some of them went own with the cars.
@@papboybrooklyn77 True
They coulda made it 100 years
You're right, they were built like tanks.
Very true
You could put a coffee shop inside one at a NYC landmark.
Great idea. ☕
It's nice to see the news covering this historic moment. Although, let me be a transit nerd and make a few corrections: the trains shown in the movies are the R-16, not the R-32. Also, the cars seen being moved are not the last four cars, and this is even contradicted by the museum's statement that they have preserved some cars. In fact, there were more cars after the 4 seen in the video that were moved off property this way, and there are many cars still on transit property.
hi ben
The R32 appear in final destination 3 at the end of the movie.
@@kenjiharima23nep91 If they got the movie right, they didn't get the clip right!
Those trains were well built
Next stop, the whole Subway system is going to get retired if they don't fix the crimes within...
Lol
I'm 51 years old and started to ride the subway when I was 13 years old. Although they premiered on the Sea Beach Line, they were also on the IND A Line since the mid 90's. So for about the last 25 years...I had the chance to ride them almost everyday.
I used to hate them because those dimmed dark lights inside. But I am gonna miss them; they actually was a fun to ride.
The R62s we have now do have a similar light dimming issue
I actual like the dim, lol
Recycling?! ill take one
Me too
@@ArhamAhmad9278 tiny homes
I'm gonna miss these R32s 😢
The MTA seems to be in an awful hurry to dispose of these gleaming, clean cars. There isn't a dent or even a scratched window. The public might think they were new cars just arriving. The world is in crisis and could be on the verge of war. The price of oil and gasoline is skyrocketing. Ridership on public transit will probably face huge increases. It wouldn't have hurt the MTA to stockpile and store this operable 'ready to run' subway equipment for the time being. I'm sure there is space in rail yards all over the city as well as on the LIRR and METRO-North. As far as I know, only 100 of them were left. Almost 500 of them had been scrapped over the years. Room could have been found to store ten or so trains of them.
And then there is always the unforeseen possibility of something going wrong with the new subway cars. The R-32's would be perfect for an emergency back-up fleet. This reminds me of the fiasco in Philadelphia on SEPTA some years ago. Like the MTA, SEPTA couldn't wait to sell perfectly good rail cars to a scrapper in Newark. They got cents on the dollar for them. Many had been recently overhauled, even with new upholstery on the seats. Trains of those old Regional Rail cars, even with pantographs still on them, were hauled to the scrap yard where all were shredded.
Then, lo and behold, cracks developed in the trucks of the new cars and all had to be removed from service pending a plan on how to make repairs and for those repairs to then take place. A crisis ensued and SEPTA had to pay out huge sums of money to lease cars and electric locomotives from N. J. Transit and MARC. It wouldn't have cost SEPTA a cent to have stockpiled and stored the old cars. It wouldn't cost the MTA a cent to stockpile and store maybe ten trains of R-32 cars.
Another missed opportunity is not selling the R-32 cars to other transit systems, museums or private buyers. They'd make perfect diners, restaurants or coffee shops. Is the MTA so rich that they can afford to throw money away? Although it appears the destination signs have been removed for possible re-sale. You can be sure that scrap prices for the cars won't be much. Selling the signs to collectors might bring more money than the scrapper will pay for the cars.
Those things are 58+ years. I doubt someone will want something this old for regular service, especially because of their wear and tear, along with worn-out propulsion and HVAC systems. If anything, a museum would possibly want these cars, but not a regular operator.
Can't companies replicate the R32's and add the aftermarket speaker system with Monitors? Those trains had the best room, the best A\C, much more speedy than the new trains, and were fun to ride. All they need is an upgrade.
The R211 trains coming in are exactly what they are (a replication of the R32 fleet). Besides, it’s better for the MTA (or any other transit agency) to order brand new trains rather than go through a third refurbishment of aging train cars. Third time isn’t always the charm.
If you got the seat with the heater underneath in dead winter I was knocked out from Manhattan to Far ROC
Rode these for years they will be missed RIP ♥️🌹
AC J and Z train
Harlem to Manhattan Brooklyn and Queens 🖤
J rain to York College or BMCC 😆
Last of the real “straphangers”.
Notice the MTA and women didn't give you a good reason why the trains are being removed other than it is old? Typical MTA finding dumb ways to waste more money
How?
The Redbirds will always be the greatest trains of all time in NYC.
these are R32s....
@@1911enjoyer i wasn't referring to the R32.
@@SCARYFALCON2 but the r32s are the most successful and greatest if all time.
I remember the old green monsters where the conductor stood outside straddling two cars with controls on the corners of each side which controlled the doors. But I’m just an old guy. The doors used to make a growling sound when they opened.
mines is the r33s even tho they derailed alot
I can't wait to see that when I go to the MTA New York City Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn soon when I start traveling by myself again after over a month of being a prisoner in my group home for nothing
Grew up riding those cars
Those trains had better AC then the modern ones
Until they wore out in their last years. But the best is their structural quality.
You might as well keep them running on the B&D line cause it fits the way that line runs now like a dinosaur 😂😂😂
NYC been changing a lot over the years it don’t feel the same anymore.
Nyc was supposed to be a modern city in 1940
I only rode on the final run of the R32s😭 (which is the Q line). Still going to miss them😭😭😭😭😭
They should be made into Tiny Houses ... hahahaha
And charge $2,200 a month lol. Depending where is located if its in Manhattan be like 3k a month.
@@rg7846 tiny homes for homeless
I’m so sad I can’t take 58 years old train to work 🤪😜
Should have been done already since they upgraded
I'm HURT and ANGRY! These cars were so much better than the weirdly designed cars the MTA is running now! Look at ALL the space they had! F*CK, Didn't anybody at the MTA ever hear the expression, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Yeah those cars were old, and I could be wrong, but I believe they could've been worked on and refurbished. Just like the weird ass buses...Ol' School NY'er still in love with NY when it had some heart & soul...
Continued refurbishment of the aging cars is more expensive and time consuming compared to ordering brand new cars especially for CBTC installation on the 8th Avenue Line (and the rest of the system).
They sucked out all the money out they could out of the R 32 now those trains are a piece of ART N HISTORY shows burn out the system till u cant no more
So the reason for this financial & environmental waste is because these subway cars did an awesome job for 58 years? That's not a logical judgement call.
It's a net financial loss for no valid reason.
Fleet reliability of these cars has degraded, as the cars were supposed to retire in 2010. In fact these cars have been a source of complaints for the A and C line riders due to poor AC system and continued mechanical issues. No wonder they had to reassign subway cars in 2014.
Financially, it is better to procure new train cars fresh from the factory rather than continue expensive rehabs of aging train cars, so your argument of wrong. This is also not environmental waste.
*Hopefully one of the two R-32s they've saved for the transit museum smells like urine and has at least one shopping cart filled with bottles and cans. Otherwise it won't be a realistic exhibit.*
End of an era 😭.
I'm shocked wealthy collectors didn't buy them up.If I was rich i would love to have one of these
Recycled? So they don't sink the old trains to the bottom of the ocean? 🤔😅🤣
This legendary fleet deserves respect!
Ship to Ohio??
So that why 😭
Gonna Miss Them!
Train 🤦🏽♂️ not a car
These Rolling Stock trains are my old school memories old school kid myself Century Millenium decades old generation will live on forever are the public transportation system of rapid transit train car R32 will be forgot keep these trains forever and keep R32 service alive
Did he say scores of rail enthusiasts? I think he meant 2. Or does scores mean 2?
They may have been 58 years old. But i wished they would have saved more of them in their last sets that remained. Comparing them to the R 1 TO R 9 Cars we have had many museum train trips yet the transit system takes out what can be the nostalgia train R 32 & beyond. I grew up with the R 32 cars & the R 38 which was cheated out of thier sets when i had the horror of seeing those fleets piled up on top of each other to be (later dumped into the ocean) at 207th Street yard in Washington Heights years earlier! After the R 160 these newer R 179 cars look shiny in their metal but they're appearance & performance is junk & garbage! I can't stand those cars & the R 211 cars coming! At least if various museums adopted them i wouldn't have a problem! Scrapping the best stainless steel cars ever built in The N.Y.C.T.A. system & BUDD. What a shame not to have them for the next generations to ride these 1960's relics in many sets! I cried on the last day they ran on the Q train playing Frank Sinatra's (?) New York , New York & Alicia Keys New York through the trains P.A. system! What another slap in the face to these cars! I rode these so loyally everywhere on the Division B mostly on there last days on the A & C Trains. Nice send off on their runs but come on scrapping them for this new tech crap garbage? Again i would have loved them to be the holiday train as well as on there own sets! Sad ending miss you R 32 😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃
A set of R32 trains (about 8 cars) have been set aside for museum trains, movie shoots, whatnot.
I guess they removed all the people sleeping in them first.
Should keep train 32 train.no dont recycle it,nice train dont kill it.i like it nice.
Can I get the scrap from 1 of them?
R32 is Sending to New York Transit Museum
Where do the subway trains meet the outside rails to the river?
0:16 the 1974 the taking of Pelham 123???
0:15 That’s an R17 or R22. 0:26 THATS AN R16!
WELL NYC TRANSIT DID GET A BILLION DOLLARS TO POCKET AND USE..WHO CARES THE HOMELESS ARE WAITING FOR THE NEW CARS AND CRIME IS UP WHO ARE THEY REALLY FOR WASTEFUL SPENDING
R32 is going to come back soon
no it won't
Ain’t no way the subway cars are going to Ohio?!?!?! 1:43
Pls I didn't guess to see it put it back on the next and w lines I wanna see it for my first time pls😢
I like how haff of this was recycled SMEE footage
Believe in the LORD JESUS CHRIST and be saved.
or make the same but upgraded with more new techniques
I’m gonna miss the front of these trains, I used to be able to see the tunnels and stations all the time growing up. Gone but never forgotten 🥺😢🙏🏿❤️💯
the train from GTA III
This train should retire in 2024
It was just time to retire then it was getting to old and to hard to maintain. Especially difficult for the crew members to operate.
Ohio? Why train go to ohio!
Make them into homes.
They were home for 58 year
Enough
Ohio 💀
Bruh WHY IT WAS THE BEST
Why ohio
I loved the original 'The Taking of Pelham 123' with Robert Shaw
Denzel Washington
Ohio!
Ship to "Only in Ohio"
Nooooooooooooooo😢😢😭😭😭😭😡
make a R33
I would the old and in with the new absolutely nothing wrong with them just shows New York the way New York shit are always been original it is what it is they wanna replace everything some people just don’t understand the true meaning of living in New York sad to see them go
Perfect example of biased stories.
Why not get objective seasoned industry experts to interview, instead of useless political appointees.
The fact that this lady had to use a Madmen reference in order to convey a 1960’s aesthetic is sad
That's an R38 💀💀 0:30
It was a wooden mockup of the R16 cars.
Every time they say R32 I keep thinking they’re talking about the Nissan Skyline R32
These were like rockets man I swear and the AC were cold goddamn I’m gonna miss riding these suckers
It's very large inside beautiful
Wow I remember riding the R 32 in 2014
These are very old indeed! I like the flat seats! Good job 😂 and thank you old chap!!
Ill miss the dim lights and warm heat blowing under the 2 seaters in the winter
It will be miss rip the king 👑 r32 I will miss u on the (C) and (A)
Wait are some of them not durable lol? Sounds concerning
I hate being a railfanner now
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We us to sneak in the booth and say next stop is hell
But how many time's ? it's going to be the end of that.
Classic NYC can't wait for the new ones
make them again i love the steel
R32’s are my favorite subway car of all time he MTA should keep some as spare cars they’re built like tanks and run perfect still 🤩🤩
8 cars are set aside for museum runs, movie shoots, and whatnot.
rip
Am gonna miss them
I see a lot of those on the blue lines and J/Z lines. They were always breaking down.
Yeah bc they were in service for 58 years.
Won't be missed