R211S Car Delivery. On the night of Wednesday, February 5, 2025, a pair of MTA Staten Island Railway R211S cars, SIR 148 & 149, left the Kawasaki facility in Yonkers, New York for delivery to MTA Staten Island Railway's Clifton Yard. There, the cars will be assembled into 5-car sets for operation. These cars are replacing the entire 50 plus year old R-44S/ME-2 fleet of 64 75-foot cars with 75 60-foot cars. The R211S has minor differences from the R211A cars that are manufactured for the rest of the MTA NYCT Subway, but are aesthetically identical except for the logo. The cars passed by the MTA Metro-North Railroad former New York Central Railroad Yonkers Station on their way out of the city.
