Stainless Steel Sunrise. On the morning of Thursday, July 6, 2023, the sequential set of MTA NYCT Subway R-32s married pair 3432 & 3433 (Budd, 1964-1965) were loaded on to trailers at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Brooklyn, New York to be transported for preservation. Their destination has not yet been announced. The 600 car order of R-32s were the only cars produced by Budd for NYCTA (the 5-car Budd built stainless steel "Zephyr" was delivered to the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Company as an experimental order), but left their mark as they first large order of stainless steel subway cars for New York City, and today it is the dominant material and method used in subway car production. While it is not possible or even advised to save every single car that is removed from service, as time passes it is being revealed that more than a few R-32s will find themselves living a second life after 58 years of revenue service.
