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What's the schedule for the rest of the stops, has it changed

If the Pitkin R46s are in much worse shape, will we see them go first and the CI 46s hold off until Option 1 goes to Concourse or Jamaica, or are we going to see some transfers around the system where they just retire the worst performing cars from each yard?

Saw a video where some more R32s (12 I think) are sitting in the 65th street yard waiting for scrap. Anyone know what numbers they are?

I was thinking that if these are the cars they're going to buy for the next few decades or so, they could add another 10-20 for a few extra trains if service necessitates it

Surprised they didn't order a train or two more for fleet expansion, but this is the MTA we're talking about

The nearest spot is 39th and 2nd, right?

What's the best public spot to view the cars, and do they still store R32s for scrap there, or do you have to look at 36th-38th for those?

With that, that just leaves 4185-4189 and then on to the 4200s, right?

Will they need to order more R211Ss, or do they just need the whole order in service ASAP to retire the R44s ASAP

Hell, nowadays so many thing about navigation are so much easier today than I remember them in the late 2000s-early 2010s: - countdown clocks everywhere, before you had no idea when a train would come - I once waited 45 mins for the one night - having service changes online rather than just showing up at the station and finding out you need to make an extra transfer or backtrack - real time updates, before trains would just stop in the tunnel with no announcements

According to nycsubway.org there are still about 80 cars waiting to be scrapped, though it could be more since only 6 cars on property (3350-3353 and 3360-3361) are officially designated for preservation

They'll probably start cannibalizing the worst sets first while they search for a scrap contract and the rest of the cars are still in service. It'll probably take a while to get them off property given how there are still around (90?) R32s left pending scrap, but the 46s might be easier to get rid of since they're newer. I doubt we'll see any saved for work service (maybe they'll save a single married pair for the museum), and I don't expect them to preserve any SIR R44s at all.

I'd imagine that since we're already at 110 cars on property, along with the 211S about to start testing or service on SI, we could maybe see official retirements begin in March. If we get a good delivery schedule the 44s could retired pretty quickly (by the end of the year) but the 46s will probably take at least a year and a half to cycle out.

Once the 44s/46s are retired, and if we see 211s to Jamaica, 207 and Pitkin and 160s to Concourse/CI, we'll still have some fleet variety, but not as much as we used too - even as late as 2019 the / was running 5 car types and the 3. We'll still see some variety - I'm guessing the will still be a 143/160/179 mix, the a 179/211 mix, and the still a 143/160 mix (maybe some 211s go there or to the ), but even the , which I remember as mix, could be mostly 68s with an occasional 160. Personally as long as there are two types on a single line or two on a trunk (mix of 62s and 142s on Broadway-7th and Lex), I feel like it'll still be interesting to see different car types.

At this rate I wonder if 6240-2 will see service again, we might have seen the first non-accident retirements

Thanks! Did they ever preserve any articulated models?

IIRC the last 42s in service were all kept for work service to replace older 32s; I'm guessing those 32s are on the way out right now

Is there a list of preserved buses somewhere?

When the car acceptance facility is completed, will that speed up deliveries? Also, is the facility a temporary building until the 211 order is complete, or will they keep it for future orders (262s, 268s, etc.)

Have any more cars been taken off property recently

Minus 4080-4089 and 4175-4189 (to be delivered), we should be getting into the 4200s soon, right?

We're almost at the point where we have enough R211A/Ts plus spares in service to cover the 110 stored R32s, so maybe we could see some R46s start to get sidelined soon. With the R211S testing too and the R44s in even worse condition, maybe we'll see some of those go first, especially since there aren't that many cars on SI anyways

Are the worst performing R46s usually designated for the shuttle?

Doubt it'll happen but having a R179 on 6th Av, 4th Av and Brighton express would pretty nice. If I'm understanding this right, here's how each R211 order goes in term of car replacements: -The R211S will directly replace all the R44s on the SIR, and those are expected to enter service by the summer, with R44s being pulled from service ASAP -The base order of R211A will go to Pitkin to displace better performing R46s to CI. The first 110 R211A are meant to cover the 110 car shortage from the R32s retired in 2020, but we're almost at that number in service already. Once we get past, say, 150 cars in service, the R46s will start being retired (married pairs first). With 525 cars in the first option minus 150, we're left 375 R211s, which could replace 300 R46s. The base order is expected to be complete in about a year. -The first option order is also R211A cars, and with 640 cars there you could replace 512 R46s, so the rest of the fleet. The second option order can then be for fleet expansion. -The R211T will stay on the for the time being, and they'll decide whether the second option order will be open gangway or not later.

I thought the plan was to do 10 cars a month through the end of year/base order (or was it 10 a week?)