It's A New Day. At sunrise on Thursday, July 1, 2021, all 5 Metropolitan Transportation Authority - MTA NYCT Subway Kawasaki built R-211As are on the ground and awaiting the arrival of MTA ... (more)

"R211s Under the Gowanus"

On the afternoon of July 1st, 2021, the first Kawasaki built MTA New York City Transit R211A subway cars duck under the Gowanus Expressway as they cross 3rd... (more)

The Reveal. Shipped under cover and moved in darkness, at just after 1100 on Thursday, July 1, 2021, Metropolitan Transportation Authority - MTA NYCT Subway Kawasaki built R-211As were reve... (more)

Down Low. A Broadway Junction-bound L train arrives at Sutter Ave on the wrong track! On this particular weekend, service between Canarsie and Broadway Junction was operating as a single... (more)

Serpentine. A Canarsie-bound L train snakes through the s-curve north of Sutter Av station. The abandoned trackways seen here formerly carried the BMT Fulton St el, which ran concurrentl... (more)

Out to Sea. A Brooklyn-bound A train is seen approaching the north shore of Jamaica Bay, having just crossed the North and South Channel Bridges from the Rockaway Peninsula.

Local Delivery. An inbound 7 train passes a work train headed by OL930 just east of 33 St Station on the IRT Flushing Line. The work train was very slowly working its way east, stopping ... (more)

Pink Lady. A Manhattan-bound A train is seen arriving at Broad Channel station, situated in the middle of Jamaica Bay. This station is the least-used in the entire NYC Subway system, whe... (more)

Summer Sunsets. The sun sets over Williamsburg as the last outbound J express train approaches Hewes St Station. Though it's not quite summer yet, the late-setting sun is nearly in line ... (more)

Non Revenue. New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) TGC4 has just emerged from the tunnel under East New York, passing the former East New York station, which closed in 1924. The TGC is... (more)

Forest Hills Visitor. Metropolitan Transportation Authority - MTA New York City Transit Subway TGC 4 is a track geometry car built by Plaser to the clearance NYCT Subway to check for defect... (more)

A large part of New York MTA’s BMT Brighton Line through Brooklyn is in the open, although still below grade and, therefore, still technically a subway. A B Sixth Avenue Express enters a brief ... (more)

A Q Train, with the usual assortment of Kawasaki R68A cars (with 5058 leading) rounds the curve as it approaches the Parkside Station on the former IND Brighton Line. This train originated in Man... (more)

After riding a G Train in the MTA's new image, I hopped off at the Smith-9th Streets Station in the hope of perhaps finding another new-scheme train heading south. Seconds after getting set up, I... (more)

Some twenty years after the orange Q bullet was discontinued (it was used for Sixth Avenue service from 1988-2001), it inexplicably showed up on R68A car 5114, leading a New York City subway 2nd A... (more)