MTA Staten Island Railway R211S Car Delivery In The Bronx. On the night of Wednesday, February 12, 2025, a pair of MTA Staten Island Railway R211S cars, SIR 153 & 154, 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 turned the corner by 1 Line on Broadway in the Bronx, with a passing meet with a Kawasaki built R-62A train.
The MTA Staten Island Railway operates on a 14 mile-long 21 station line in Staten Island, New York. The third class of cars built for this line, the Kawasaki R-211S, made its debut for the public on Tuesday, October 8, 2024 (N-SIR 100-101-102-103-104-S). This 75 car order of 5-car sets will be the replacement for the 1971-1973 St. Louis Car Company built R-44S/ME-2 fleet (originally 52 cars, later supplemented with 12 former MTA NYCT Subway R-44 cars).
There are few differences between the R-211A cars operating on the "A Line" and these R-211S cars, the main one is that the R-211S cars have ATC (track-circuit-based automatic train control) and the R-211A have CBTC (communications-based train control). There is currently a second 5-car set on the property, cars SIR 105-109, with more cars planned to arrive soon.
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