On Tuesday, March 10, 2026, NYNJ Rail, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority - MTA NYCT Subway coordinated the delivery of four Wabtec WAB6HYB/R-255 locomotives (HL0018-HL0021) from Greenville, New Jersey to Brooklyn, New York. The locomotive was loaded on the NYNJ 200 barge and powered across New York Harbor by McAllister Towing's 'Marjorie McAllister'. Because this kind of locomotive is not designed to work with standard consists, it is shipped on a flat car, and will be moved to the track by crane. While the barge is crossing New York Harbor, there is always a great background of buildings, monuments, and other boats and ships.
More on the R255 locomotive:
The Wabtec WAB6HYB/R-255 is a 675hp hybrid work locomotive designed for the demands and clearances of the New York City Subway system. The diesel engine charges the batteries, which will allow the locomotive to operate for 8 hours. This will allow a new generation of locos to pull work trains through the subway with a much lower level of emissions. MTA NYCT Subway presently rosters 90 diesel engines that operate on non-revenue work trains, and is adding this 25 unit order of R-255s as well as the 10 R-77Es under conversion to R-257s by CAD Railway Industries to increase the size and flexibility of the fleet.
