Wow, an R17, those dated back to the mid 1950s. That car is 6895 (renumbered to 36895). There’s an R21 there also, numbered 7267 (renumbered G7267). Those cars have been there since 2002 and have not moved anywhere else ever since. Both cars still remain, but they’re finally awaiting scrapping. Car 6609 is in the NYTM and has been there since 1976. It is fully operational and runs periodically on museum-sponsored “Nostalgia Trains”, specifically on the Train of Many Colors. Cars 6835 and 6899 also survive as work cars, but stored at a different rail yard in the system. They were converted to R71 hose reach cars and overhauled under the R159 program. 6895 was used on a special trip sometime during the 1990s. Although it was reported that the cars may be operational and preserved, the car was stripped of parts in 2009 (such as sash windows and rollsigns). R28s were built in 1960-61 and those cars are 7924-7925. The R26s are 7774-7775 and R29s are there too, cars 8678-8679. These all date back to between 1959 and 1963.
Where I grew up, there was a big rail depot at 156th and Park and Morris Avenues just down from the Grand Concourse. I think it was for the New Haven and Connecticut commuter trains. 😉
Yep, that was the new York, new haven and Hartford Depot. The NY, Westchester and Boston , when they figured out transferring to the subway didn't work ( at 180th street) I believe started building an interconnect from 180th to that station ,to use nynh&h tracks to grand central,but they didn't have money to do it. The irt dyre avenue line is the old NY,West and Boston right of way. The big Spanish looking building at 180th street was that railroads HQ.
Probably get scrapped but hoping they get donated to a transit museum if not in nyc maybe another state. Or they should restore them and use them for transit events
Wait what. In the same spot for nearly 40 years now. I don’t want to be mean or anything or question about your comment, but I don’t think that’s right. Probably been here for 20 years since the Redbird fleet was fully phased out by late 2003. Those look like R33MLs or R36WFs and the last train of eight R33WFs, with two R36MLs in the set as well as the last R33 Single car, made their final trip on the 7 Flushing route on November 3, 2003. They were put here shortly after retirement which was like over 20 years ago. Two versions of the R33 and R36 were manufactured: - R33MLs “Main Line” - R33S “Singles” - R36WF “World’s Fair” - R36ML “Main Line” Anyone know what type of Redbirds these are? I’ve never seen them there before and I stopped by the concourse yard a few times and didn’t see any Redbird trains stored there?
I can’t believe my friends used to climb over that fence and enter that train yard. They told me they also went to the A yard at 207 street. Said they called it the ghost yard. He was bad boy. 😅
I sworn when I went by concourse yard when I went to NYC last month and I saw what looked to be a full set of R32s sitting on a separate track next to the R46/R142 scrap cars. Or is it just my imagination, Lol. 😅😂
A handful of the R68s will be retired by a second option order of 355 R211As and 80 R211T “open-gangway”trains starting later this year. Start saying your goodbyes to the last 75-foot (22.86 m) long and last yellow-and-orange-seat subway cars, the last with bucket seating with some seats facing outwards across from each other and others resting on the wall as well as the last SMEEs.
I used to live on Decatur Ave.Near 205th D line train station.Took that train downtown to Manhattan every day.One day in early 1990 the motorman went in the wrong direction.And I and several other passengers wound up in that same train yard.It was a cold as heck.Even Inside the train car.
0:01-0:18 and 0:30, Waaa, I’m going to miss them so much, I don’t want them to go, but I know they’re 50+ years old and it’s time for them to leave and be scrapped. I’m sad, they’ll be missed. 😭😪💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
There a train in the maintenance facility. What does the guy in the blue shirt have attached to the lead car as it leaves the shop? Around time stamp 6:44 Tks
The wire is called a 'bug'. Overhead tracks allow the wire to move with the train. Once a single shoe touches the 3rd rail, all shoes on that car are electrified.
That’s not the R142 that was involved in the 2020 fire on a 2 train at 110th Street CPN 110th Street on March 27, 2020, that killed the train operator Garret Goble, is it? If it is, they haven’t scrapped it yet? I thought that set, 6346-6350, was scrapped two years ago. So it’s still sitting there and it’s going to be five years since the fire this March. What are they waiting for, unbelievable. 🤬😡🤮😒
OMG, I watched the other video and I saw what looked like an R142 in back of R46 scrap cars and I wondered to myself, is that the R142 involved in the 2020 110th Street CPN fire. I can’t believe it’s still there. That shows you right that MTA does not give a shit about cars wrecked in derailments and fires or other stuff and wants to keep them on the property and not do anything to them, not even scrap them. 😡😡
The trio of seven retired and decommissioned subway cars hauled by the MTA work train being transferred to Concourse Yard passing by 145th Street and Bedford Park Boulevard almost two years ago was that set 6346-6350 and also had R46 cars 6150-6151 that were damaged in a derailment on the A line north of 125th Street in Manhattan on June 27, 2017. Those absolutely might be the two cars from that derailment in front of the R142 set. So those haven’t been scrapped either and it’s going to be eight years since the A line derailment this summer. Absolutely crazy. 😮😡🤬😢
Brings me back to my school car days, and days where I did the baseball special.
Wow, an R17, those dated back to the mid 1950s. That car is 6895 (renumbered to 36895). There’s an R21 there also, numbered 7267 (renumbered G7267). Those cars have been there since 2002 and have not moved anywhere else ever since. Both cars still remain, but they’re finally awaiting scrapping. Car 6609 is in the NYTM and has been there since 1976. It is fully operational and runs periodically on museum-sponsored “Nostalgia Trains”, specifically on the Train of Many Colors.
Cars 6835 and 6899 also survive as work cars, but stored at a different rail yard in the system. They were converted to R71 hose reach cars and overhauled under the R159 program. 6895 was used on a special trip sometime during the 1990s. Although it was reported that the cars may be operational and preserved, the car was stripped of parts in 2009 (such as sash windows and rollsigns).
R28s were built in 1960-61 and those cars are 7924-7925. The R26s are 7774-7775 and R29s are there too, cars 8678-8679. These all date back to between 1959 and 1963.
Wow, that's awesome. I didn't know all of that!
Where I grew up, there was a big rail depot at 156th and Park and Morris Avenues just down from the Grand Concourse. I think it was for the New Haven and Connecticut commuter trains. 😉
That's so cool!
Yep, that was the new York, new haven and Hartford Depot. The NY, Westchester and Boston , when they figured out transferring to the subway didn't work ( at 180th street) I believe started building an interconnect from 180th to that station ,to use nynh&h tracks to grand central,but they didn't have money to do it.
The irt dyre avenue line is the old NY,West and Boston right of way. The big Spanish looking building at 180th street was that railroads HQ.
Do you think concourse yard will ever do anything about those Redbirds sitting there?
Probably get scrapped but hoping they get donated to a transit museum if not in nyc maybe another state. Or they should restore them and use them for transit events
They are forgotten about
@@jftransit Yep, there NYTM Cars.
@@Subways_iothanks for the confirmation. Love your channel btw!
@@jftransit No problem👍. Thank you so much happy that folks find our approach content interesting. Keep up the great work on your end as well.
Viewed this place many times as a child and I was coming from Harlem. I need to get back up there when I visit next, Midwest for almost 20 years now.
Damn you have to come back!
Those two subway cars been same spot since late 80s
Wait what. In the same spot for nearly 40 years now. I don’t want to be mean or anything or question about your comment, but I don’t think that’s right. Probably been here for 20 years since the Redbird fleet was fully phased out by late 2003. Those look like R33MLs or R36WFs and the last train of eight R33WFs, with two R36MLs in the set as well as the last R33 Single car, made their final trip on the 7 Flushing route on November 3, 2003. They were put here shortly after retirement which was like over 20 years ago.
Two versions of the R33 and R36 were manufactured:
- R33MLs “Main Line”
- R33S “Singles”
- R36WF “World’s Fair”
- R36ML “Main Line”
Anyone know what type of Redbirds these are? I’ve never seen them there before and I stopped by the concourse yard a few times and didn’t see any Redbird trains stored there?
Don’t think it’s been since the 80’s but it’s deff been YEARS if not decades 🤣
@@ericschwartz3559the yellow car looks to be an R17. The Redbirds sitting on the other side of the yard may possibly be R26/R28s
@@ericschwartz3559 The redbird scheme cars are R33MLs. They two other yellow cars are R17s (The ones parked next to the ramp.)
I'm talking about two yellow subway cars sitting there same spot since early 90s not the redbirds cars.
I can’t believe my friends used to climb over that fence and enter that train yard. They told me they also went to the A yard at 207 street. Said they called it the ghost yard. He was bad boy. 😅
Haha crazy!
Wow they already got rid of the R32s sitting on a sperate track next to the scrap R46/R142.
Yeah man :(
@@jftransit The R62 and the R62A trains are starting to show their age 😢
I sworn when I went by concourse yard when I went to NYC last month and I saw what looked to be a full set of R32s sitting on a separate track next to the R46/R142 scrap cars. Or is it just my imagination, Lol. 😅😂
A handful of the R68s will be retired by a second option order of 355 R211As and 80 R211T “open-gangway”trains starting later this year. Start saying your goodbyes to the last 75-foot (22.86 m) long and last yellow-and-orange-seat subway cars, the last with bucket seating with some seats facing outwards across from each other and others resting on the wall as well as the last SMEEs.
That’s what I going to miss the most the SMEES they were the best to operate
I used to live on Decatur Ave.Near 205th D line train station.Took that train downtown to Manhattan every day.One day in early 1990 the motorman went in the wrong direction.And I and several other passengers wound up in that same train yard.It was a cold as heck.Even Inside the train car.
Always wondered how they get train from inside shop to yard third rail. Now I know. Thanks
No problem. Thank you for watching 🙏🏻
Great !!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This yard is in love with those R68s in love with them
Yes because they run on the B/D lines
Four decommissioned, stripped and retired R46s are seen in the yard waiting very patiently to be taken off the property for scrapping.
Sad to see them go
0:01-0:18 and 0:30, Waaa, I’m going to miss them so much, I don’t want them to go, but I know they’re 50+ years old and it’s time for them to leave and be scrapped. I’m sad, they’ll be missed. 😭😪💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
Sad to see them go :(
i have always seen that train in the 4 train when growing up and i am 12 now
Which one?
@ that old train
Are those 4 trains I see passing by on the elevated track in the distance?
Yes sir!
Yes
Very interesting! ‘Would be enjoyable to model!
It would definitely be a fun model to build.
Those R17 and the R22 cars will get scrapped real soon according to Wikipedia.
Hopefully, but who knows when.
There a train in the maintenance facility. What does the guy in the blue shirt have attached to the lead car as it leaves the shop? Around time stamp 6:44 Tks
He’s holding a wire that he touches to the third rail shoe to power the train till it gets to the track side power
The wire is called a 'bug'. Overhead tracks allow the wire to move with the train. Once a single shoe touches the 3rd rail, all shoes on that car are electrified.
Thanks guys for the education.
What's that locomotive for?
What are those R160s doing here at concourse yard? They don’t run on the b and d lines. Those are the R68s and R68As.
Jerome yard is near by and sometimes they use concourse as extra storage
That’s not the R142 that was involved in the 2020 fire on a 2 train at 110th Street CPN 110th Street on March 27, 2020, that killed the train operator Garret Goble, is it? If it is, they haven’t scrapped it yet? I thought that set, 6346-6350, was scrapped two years ago. So it’s still sitting there and it’s going to be five years since the fire this March. What are they waiting for, unbelievable. 🤬😡🤮😒
Yes that’s the one. Can’t believe it’s still there.
OMG, I watched the other video and I saw what looked like an R142 in back of R46 scrap cars and I wondered to myself, is that the R142 involved in the 2020 110th Street CPN fire. I can’t believe it’s still there. That shows you right that MTA does not give a shit about cars wrecked in derailments and fires or other stuff and wants to keep them on the property and not do anything to them, not even scrap them. 😡😡
The trio of seven retired and decommissioned subway cars hauled by the MTA work train being transferred to Concourse Yard passing by 145th Street and Bedford Park Boulevard almost two years ago was that set 6346-6350 and also had R46 cars 6150-6151 that were damaged in a derailment on the A line north of 125th Street in Manhattan on June 27, 2017. Those absolutely might be the two cars from that derailment in front of the R142 set. So those haven’t been scrapped either and it’s going to be eight years since the A line derailment this summer. Absolutely crazy. 😮😡🤬😢
The 242 car is sitting there, because of pending lawsuits.
@@johnalbanese30 what lawsuits?