Never thought I'd see the day, the R44s were part of my childhood and even my parents’ childhood. 50 years is surely a long while for an upgrade, but ill surely miss the simplistic aesthetic interior of the r44s, their rollsigns, the forward facing seats against the huge windows, and the sound of the propulsion system with those hissing brake releases. 😄
Wow. The R44s were the mainstay on Staten Island for half a century now and finally being replaced. It will be weird not seeing them on the Railway anymore
Congrats, Staten Island. The rest of NY doesn't give you the love you should get being one of the five boroughs. This is a step in the right direction. The posturing between the boroughs is just for fun, and let's face it, even in each borough, we brag about who's neighborhood is best. They all are great for different reasons, NYC rules.
Wow! The R211’s are finally in service on the Staten Island Railway, and they are finally replacing the aging R44’s that they were over a half of century old in service! Great video DJ Hammers!
I cannot believe that this is happening because I didn't hear so much as an announcement as to them being probably put into public service I was under the assumption that there was still under testing until they made that announcement
@@hoodboyzAtl No it's not. R211A is the regular subway version R211T is the subway open gangway version R211S is the SIR version Quit being such a stubborn troll
The R44 and R46s will be the hardest retirements because: - 1 They are the last St. Louies to remain in passenger service, since three other St. Louie subway cars, the R38s, R40Ss and R40M straight-ended and R42s are now retired. - 2 I love their yellow-and-orange colored seating, their light blue periwinkle bucket seats inside, their plastic cream-colored like walls and the hissing the train makes when it stops as well as the noise it makes while idling in the station and lastly their awesome-sounding traction motors/propulsion systems. - 3 They are the last subway trains from the late 1960s to early 1970s timeframe to remain in service. - 4 The 46’s are the last pullmans to remain in service, since the manufacturer ceased operations when it completed the largest order for passenger cars in U.S. railroad history at the time of the fleet’s completion in 1981. - 5 It’ll be very hard to see them go since they had been transporting millions of New Yorkers, Staten Islanders and straphangers throughout New York City and around Staten Island for more than half a century, which is absolutely fricken incredible, if you ask me. 😮🤯😱 - 6 St. Louis, when it finished the R44 order sometime in 1974, it shut down operations and never made subway rapid transit cars again. The 61 SIR cars were delivered between January and May 1973. The 352 R44MLs for the subway were delivered between October 1971 and April 1974. So they were the last subway cars to be built by St. Louis before the company ceased operations.
Whats even more saddening is that these were are the last models that st louis made when they created the R38's and R42's, ill be sure to ride the R44's before it eventually ends its last run when these R211's take over.
I am a little sad that I have just missed out on travelling on the R44s given that they were introduced to the world the same year that I was! Unfortunately I am not heading to the States until next April so they will probably be all gone by the time I arrive. I will just have to enjoy riding on their replacements.
Hello. Can you tell me please, where will their R44s go? Will they be placed on a barge, and sank into the Ocean? How do you think, will this process be visible from the place where 92nd street footbridge crosses Belt Parkway?
Which ones of the r211 are the ones with open gangway and why aren't all new r211 equipped with open gangway? I still don't understand why NYC Subway keeps buying closed car trains.
@@blue9multimediagroup Safety hazard? So NY would be the only city that think it's a safety hazard... It works great in dozens and dozens of cities and considered a safety improvement. So, I'm really curious as to how exactly open gangways are a safety hazard...
How are Staten Islanders going to feel about losing over half of the seating they're used to? The R44's could seat up to 76 per car, these trains because of the longitudinal seat arrangement, wider doors and standing areas, there are only 30 seats per car.
The majority of people on Staten Island don’t even ride the Staten Island railway or subways at all for that matter. They either take a bus or just drive.
@@globie1000 But there are 5 cars to a set of R211 trains instead of 4 on the R44s, so seating won’t be that much less. The SIR is rarely so crowded that someone getting a seat within a few stops of boarding will be an issue.
@@shaheemhanley9055 I know but what I mean is the cars are shorter so the gap on the same curve is surely narrower but in this case, still not narrow enough.
@anonymous3738 Oh, I understand what you mean now. At least the 211S can still make the station stop, though the door operation is weird since I've never witnessed a B division New Tech Train have 3 out of 4 doors open at a station.
@@shaheemhanley9055 Clifton isn’t the only station like this, however. Richmond Valley’s platforms are physically shorter so they can’t serve the full length of the trains and extending them would be too expensive for the number of passengers because there are bridge pillars on one side and the station’s platform overpass on the other, which means it isn’t a case of simply building more platform on each side.
What community would that be? The old R44 cars are pretty clean after 51 years and the stations are spotless compared to the NYC subway. What’s your point, exactly?
Design disaster. Wide doors and reduced seating forcing people to stand for long periods of time. Why did they waste money on glass windows when they could have gone with lexan, like on the LIRR, I posit sarcastically.
Never thought I'd see the day, the R44s were part of my childhood and even my parents’ childhood. 50 years is surely a long while for an upgrade, but ill surely miss the simplistic aesthetic interior of the r44s, their rollsigns, the forward facing seats against the huge windows, and the sound of the propulsion system with those hissing brake releases. 😄
>my parent's childhood
You had one singular parent?
vintage trains will forever be in our hearts.
I rode the old B&O coaches as a kid in the early ‘70s. Man, I’m getting old 😂
Wow. The R44s were the mainstay on Staten Island for half a century now and finally being replaced. It will be weird not seeing them on the Railway anymore
Congrats, Staten Island. The rest of NY doesn't give you the love you should get being one of the five boroughs. This is a step in the right direction. The posturing between the boroughs is just for fun, and let's face it, even in each borough, we brag about who's neighborhood is best. They all are great for different reasons, NYC rules.
As a New Jerseyan, it's about time Staten Island (and Richmond County) in New York, finally have new subway 🚇 cars. Congratulations 👏👏👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉! 😃👍
New Jersey is just greater New York, you can't tell me otherwise
Finally: some new cars for Staten Island. I wish them the best of luck!
Wow! The R211’s are finally in service on the Staten Island Railway, and they are finally replacing the aging R44’s that they were over a half of century old in service! Great video DJ Hammers!
Awesome!! The R211s are operating!!😀👍👌
I'm excited all the R211's are in Service
Me Too
@@R143JTrain Awesome
2:33 That's one of Miles in Transit's friends.
6:07 I love the very last line in the video: "Miles will have to come ride these!"
2:35 It's Jeremy!
I knew it! Where's Miles though...
what a coincidence 😂
We follow him on Twitter
For a hot minute I thought you wouldnt show up for this, What a fool I was lol
Yes! They finally made it to service!
The new R211S trains are beautiful. The R44 trains will be missed.
I cannot believe that this is happening because I didn't hear so much as an announcement as to them being probably put into public service I was under the assumption that there was still under testing until they made that announcement
Saying goodbye to the oldest train still running on the MYA, the R44s on the SIR.
What a debut!
I love when the sets are fresh. Great video!
In it's 30 Day Revenue Test, that's pretty good for the SIR
For the first time in over 50 years, the Staten Island Railway is getting new trains.
Awesome video of R211S.
It just the R211
@@hoodboyzAtlno the r211 is more than a model number the R211A and R211T are for the subway while R211S is for the statten island railway
@@gtavstepfordcounty1733 It just the R211 and R211T open gangway...
@@hoodboyzAtl
No it's not.
R211A is the regular subway version
R211T is the subway open gangway version
R211S is the SIR version
Quit being such a stubborn troll
@@hoodboyzAtl It’s an R211S dude. Look it up.
The R46 cars were really just a small staple of my child hood that I might never forget. Wish these cars luck
Here goes another 50 years
I love the R211s!
Yeah the R44 and R46 cars are getting so old they could REALLY use a retirement.
Yaaay!!! This is great to see. Go Staten Island!!!!🎉🎉
Thank you
Cool video!
GREAT, now lets get started rebuilding 'Hylan's Holes'.
@@whiskeykilo2h429 long overdue for that. Thank Robert Moses for shutting it down.
@@davidng2336 Yes believe it or not, it is because of this narcissistic clown major subway projects couldn’t get done!
Not all Moses’ fault, it was a combination of things. Read “The Forgotten Borough: Staten Island and the Subway.”
The R44 and R46s will be the hardest retirements because:
- 1 They are the last St. Louies to remain in passenger service, since three other St. Louie subway cars, the R38s, R40Ss and R40M straight-ended and R42s are now retired.
- 2 I love their yellow-and-orange colored seating, their light blue periwinkle bucket seats inside, their plastic cream-colored like walls and the hissing the train makes when it stops as well as the noise it makes while idling in the station and lastly their awesome-sounding traction motors/propulsion systems.
- 3 They are the last subway trains from the late 1960s to early 1970s timeframe to remain in service.
- 4 The 46’s are the last pullmans to remain in service, since the manufacturer ceased operations when it completed the largest order for passenger cars in U.S. railroad history at the time of the fleet’s completion in 1981.
- 5 It’ll be very hard to see them go since they had been transporting millions of New Yorkers, Staten Islanders and straphangers throughout New York City and around Staten Island for more than half a century, which is absolutely fricken incredible, if you ask me. 😮🤯😱
- 6 St. Louis, when it finished the R44 order sometime in 1974, it shut down operations and never made subway rapid transit cars again. The 61 SIR cars were delivered between January and May 1973. The 352 R44MLs for the subway were delivered between October 1971 and April 1974. So they were the last subway cars to be built by St. Louis before the company ceased operations.
I knew I was right about him making a video on this. i called it this morning
This was me filming the R211S at 2:46!
And so it begins....
About time us Staten Islanders get a new train!
I gotta check it out later
Whats even more saddening is that these were are the last models that st louis made when they created the R38's and R42's, ill be sure to ride the R44's before it eventually ends its last run when these R211's take over.
ironically, it was the Americans that killed off the last of the US Rail manufacturers
Awesome. Flat wheels already?
That was fast, I thought it woud take more time for the testing process
I am a little sad that I have just missed out on travelling on the R44s given that they were introduced to the world the same year that I was! Unfortunately I am not heading to the States until next April so they will probably be all gone by the time I arrive. I will just have to enjoy riding on their replacements.
They'll still be around.
This is only the first R211.
You have time
With what phone or camera are you filming???
Hello. Can you tell me please, where will their R44s go? Will they be placed on a barge, and sank into the Ocean?
How do you think, will this process be visible from the place where 92nd street footbridge crosses Belt Parkway?
ik this joke is getting old, but now we have r211s on the SIR before gta 6
Which ones of the r211 are the ones with open gangway and why aren't all new r211 equipped with open gangway?
I still don't understand why NYC Subway keeps buying closed car trains.
Safety hazard, especially in emergencies
And those are R211T
@@blue9multimediagroup Safety hazard? So NY would be the only city that think it's a safety hazard...
It works great in dozens and dozens of cities and considered a safety improvement.
So, I'm really curious as to how exactly open gangways are a safety hazard...
Damn wheel flats already.
Jointed rail
It’s not the wheels, it’s the tracks.
I think I heard a flatwheel coming from car 102 and 100
sounds like only 1 car doesn't have a flat.
They'll fix that flat spot
@@mikepignatelli273 ik they will
Them wheels flat flat lol 😆
How is the conductor able to control which doors open, especially at stations that cannot accommodate 300ft sets?
They can control which doors open and close from the half cab
Amazing design of the trains. What’s next? R211 option order?
Nice looking realisct train car's computerize mta is finely coming though for staten islander's mta need's reconstruct rail track's for north shore
❤🤍💚👍👍👍Tom from HUNGARY
Jeremy at 3:34 ? \m/
What time they start the R211S Service of the SIR
Wow
Is it me or does that new train have wheel flats?
It’s the tracks, not the wheels. The gravel bed adds to that “clickity-clack” noise.
Flat spots on the wheels already??
Are the r44’s still in service?
Yes, it’ll take a good 4 or 5 months at least before they’re completely retired.
Nice
The Staten island railway is completely isolated from the rest of the nyc subway system
How are Staten Islanders going to feel about losing over half of the seating they're used to? The R44's could seat up to 76 per car, these trains because of the longitudinal seat arrangement, wider doors and standing areas, there are only 30 seats per car.
That won't care as long as it gets them from A to B quickly without breaking down
@@blue9multimediagroupthe R44 cars are 15 feet longer than the R211 cars or 25% longer so seating capacity will be less.
SIR is rarely so full that people will need to stand for long.
The majority of people on Staten Island don’t even ride the Staten Island railway or subways at all for that matter. They either take a bus or just drive.
@@globie1000 But there are 5 cars to a set of R211 trains instead of 4 on the R44s, so seating won’t be that much less. The SIR is rarely so crowded that someone getting a seat within a few stops of boarding will be an issue.
I'm wondering if dead tree leaves will also make the wheels on these trains slip, like they do with the 50-year-olds!
Wheels flat spotted already?
Finally, they're getting rid of the R44's! These things sucked when they were brand new, and they sucked now!
3:14 I really thought the 60ft cars were short enough to fill the gap at Clifton unlike the 75ft cars.
Five 60 ft cars are still the same length as four 75 ft cars
@@shaheemhanley9055 I know but what I mean is the cars are shorter so the gap on the same curve is surely narrower but in this case, still not narrow enough.
@anonymous3738 Oh, I understand what you mean now. At least the 211S can still make the station stop, though the door operation is weird since I've never witnessed a B division New Tech Train have 3 out of 4 doors open at a station.
@@shaheemhanley9055 Clifton isn’t the only station like this, however. Richmond Valley’s platforms are physically shorter so they can’t serve the full length of the trains and extending them would be too expensive for the number of passengers because there are bridge pillars on one side and the station’s platform overpass on the other, which means it isn’t a case of simply building more platform on each side.
@@anonymous3738 I'm aware of Richmond Valley, haven't checked out the door operation there yet
3:17 woah..
Why did one set of doors open in one car?
Looks like the L.I.R.R
To be a total pedant, the WOH GP40 rebuilds are slightly older than the R44s, with some cores dating from the 1960s.
Is that a flat spot I hear?
Nope. It’s the rails.
Flat wheel already?
No, no and no. It’s the jointed rails.
211s going slow express????? 😮😮😮
If they retire the SIR R44 im out gng gg
Has to go at some point 💀
Flat wheels already??!!
A certain community that makes up the population of Staten Island will definitely make these cars dirty.
What community would that be? The old R44 cars are pretty clean after 51 years and the stations are spotless compared to the NYC subway. What’s your point, exactly?
Design disaster. Wide doors and reduced seating forcing people to stand for long periods of time. Why did they waste money on glass windows when they could have gone with lexan, like on the LIRR, I posit sarcastically.
new trains already flat wheels
Bruh how does every car already have flats😭
worst train to ever be on the SIR & MTA in general
No
Go be miserable somewhere else
Bullshit.