The Biggest Subway Maintenance Shop in North America - Coney Island, New York

The Coney Island Rapid Transit Car Overhaul Shop, often shortened to Coney Island Complex, is the largest rapid transit yard in the state of New York, and one of the largest in North America. Located in Brooklyn, New York, it covers 74 acres (300,000 m2) and operates 24/7. The complex was built in 1926 on former marshlands that, along with Coney Island Creek, used to separate Coney Island from the main body of Brooklyn. Much of this land had originally been proposed for use as a ship canal and port facility.
A car washing machine was installed in the yard at the end of 1964.
Regular scheduled maintenance is performed here for a fleet of nearly 800 cars of R46s, R68s, R68As, serving the B, N, Q, W, and Franklin Avenue Shuttle. R68s on the D, and R160s on the F and R routes, are stored at the yard but are not maintained or inspected here. The shop facility, along with the 207th Street Shops, performs inspections, heavy maintenance and overhaul for every one of the approximately 6,000 cars in the subway system, including the Staten Island Railway, and also contains car washing and painting facilities.
In addition to heavy maintenance facilities and track facilities for cars undergoing maintenance and overhaul, the complex includes three related railroad storage yards. The main yard facility, known as Coney Island Yard, includes direct connections to the adjacent BMT Sea Beach Line (N, ​Q, and ​W trains) and a two-track elevated structure to the BMT West End Line (D train). The main yard also serves trains on the BMT Brighton Line (B and ​Q trains) via tracks C & D (also known as 3 & 4, respectively) of Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station. The adjacent but separate Culver Yard (also called City Yard or Avenue X Yard) connects to the IND Culver Line (F train) at the eastern border of the yard complex, holding cars for the F service. Another yard, the Stillwell Yard, used mainly for off-peak train storage, is located across the Sea Beach Line from the main yard complex in a wye between the divergent Sea Beach and West End Lines. ~Wikipedia
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[@scottyerkes1867]

Awesome. Thanks Tim💚👌

[@jamesbryan397]

Coney Island Yard. My old work location. I worked at the Overhaul Shop ,Maintenance Shop aka Inspection Barn and Pneumatic Shop aka Air Room and various stations ,terminals as a Car Equipment Cleaner for 28.5 years. Both good & sad times.

[@andrewpalm2103]

Thanks so much for this video of transit infrastructure. More please!

[@hermanhuang9048]

Fascinating! Have you visited other transit shops, yards, and garages in your travels?

[@Elevatorelectricgate]

Nothing prevents the R160's from leaving Coney Island Yard even after a fleet swap. 👍

[@rajdeepsen1348]

Nice video.

[@declanftbl]

How did you get in?

[@lopwr1212]

the pregoh r42/40s???

[@amazing50000]

2:12 Now that I see that the shop can un-couple the R143/160/179 B cars, the MTA should turn all the 5 car R179 sets into 4 car sets and then send them to the East New York yard to run on the J/Z lines once the 207 & Pitkin yards get all of the R211s to start running on the A & C lines since 4 car set R179s all ready run on the J/Z.

[@TheRailLeaguer]

That is not really happening, since that would essentially create a fleet shortage for the rest of the lines, including the A and C. In addition, the East New York Yard is slated to get the 4-car R179s that are currently operating on the C route anyway at some point, plus the last 32 cars in the 437-car option 2 R211 order, adding at most 124 cars to the East New York Yard fleet anyway, so converting 5-car trains to 4-car trains is unnecessary.

[@mtanyctrainatlantamartatra7164]

Dam music!

[@andys109]

How can I check if person works there as a 'car inspector' at 65yo, but that person never been a mechanic?