First R211 on the move - First time running on the tracks
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- New York City Transit's newest subway car - Kawasaki's R211 is pulled across SBK railway and under the Gowanus / Brooklyn Queens Expressway. These cars are headed to Coney Island for extensive inspection and testing.
Taken July 1 , 2021.
You will never ever think that a subway train will get this much attention just like a celebrity
lol yh and it happens way more in japan as well
Oh buddy, you have no idea; just head to these other countries where trains are the shit.
R211 is the star of the show, but a soft spot for that former redbird at 0:53!
Yep
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They need to put r 179 on the n train
@@Frankieefootballmundial they will never because they already have the r160A and r160B on the N
Same
THANK YOU for this video! Much respect to you for your efforts to keep us Railfan enthusiasts informed and especially those of us who no longer live in NYC, but will ALWAYS be New Yorkers and will ALWAYS LOVE the subway and everything connected with it. I worked at many yards in 1983-1984 and remember very fondly the Coney Island yard. What I love most about this video is seeing the excitement and obvious interest in this long awaited train and seeing soooooooooooo many subway enthusiasts there video recording the arrival of the R-211 is such a welcoming sight, how I wish that I was there. For me, the REAL excitement will be when the R-211T arrives!
It's amazing to see them so clean underneath where all the mechanical parts and the wheels are.
And probably the only time you'll see them as pristine as that once it enters into service.
Not for long!
I friggin LOVE Brooklyn!!! I type this as I look for a house in the south with tears streaming down my face. Thank you Mr Railfan!
i never knew the train can ride on the street like that.
@@hoodatheist5549 they have tracks in the ground over there.
You'll regret it I lived in the south from NYC biggest regrets of my life ain't nothing like New York and if you're talking about Georgia you're in for a wake up call. In Georgia people are fake there's no real transportation, so you're forced to have a car! And its boring with a lot of bugs and people who can't drive for shit! And don't get me started on the racist bigots in Georgia. You'll find out eventually if you do decide to move just wish someone put me down just as I'm telling you. But to each is own hey you might love it. But i absolutely hate it with a passion biggest regrets of my life.
@@hoodatheist5549 Their were track blades embedded into the ground.
@@METALFACEDOOMXXXX damn
major respect for going everywhere just to get this.
What do you mean just for this? This is something you never see
@Alex McCaffery A train delivery is not an everyday thing.
@@bullymaguire6168 he literally rides a bike just to get every shot of it.
THE R211A IS GOING TO BE A MASTERPIECE WHEN IT HITS THE OFFICIAL TRACKS OF THE MTA
OF COURSE YEAH! AND I HAVE BEEN WANTING FOR IT!!!
@@NYCmetro999 I hope that the R211's don't become lemons like the R179 once it is in service.
@@SuperheroJunior I hope so too. Because I didn't like the way how the r179s behave in MTA's subway lines once they got in service.
@@SuperheroJunior hopefully not, these trains are thankfully not built Bombardier and are built by Kawasaki
@@godofwar0678 They are built by Kawasaki.
Cant wait to ride the new train and listen to its motor sound.
It took me a second to realize those were subway cars and not LIRR cars. And for it to pass Costco to realize you were in Brooklyn. The windows are kinda small, but they look nice. 🤘😎👍
They made the doors bigger than the older ones.
@@xcelsiornovabus60 yes
Having the doors integrated in between the inner and outer walls of the train makes it impossible to have larger windows. I live in Stockholm, Sweden were the new trains have the door attached to levers that push them out slightly in front of the outer wall just before opening. And the other way around when closing. Like many buses or trams.
But for some reason it seems to take longer to open and close the doors with that system and it feels like forever when in a hurry.
We also have older trains with "NY-doors" and they seems to be able to open and close even as the train is in slight motion. Much preferred in my opinion.
Otherwise I like your new trains, they have personality and look distinctively New York-ish.
@@marte3351 ok
I always love the old redbirds. They still have some service left. 💪
Where? Not in NY
@@lwrncjms they basically are part of a sertain train that goes once and a while though many lines in the nyc, i think it is that train that is really famous and hols alot of cars that were active through certain time peroids, I know the train but I forgot the name, I think it has something to do with the NY transit museum.
@@lwrncjms also the red birds are being repainted to these yellow and black (I think not sure) cars that hold alot of trains, like the garbage train as well as many maintenance trains. It alot serves as part of trains that pull new trains from yards to yards as seen here.
Work trains only
@@cesardepena7498 it’s called the “Train of Many Colors”.
Wouldn't be an MTA project without a few redundant guys hanging around watching the world go by.
This is obviously an early, pre-production version without its final coat of graffiti.
All these foamers running up on the MTA workers looking like Vultures
😂😂😂
Lmao
MTA got its new baby on tracks; but old RedBird ain’t giving up yet
I wish they still had Lo-Vs (and Hi-Vs) instead of Red Birds. 😒
So true
Been remote since COVID started. Won’t go back into the office till end of year. Can’t wait to ride these new trains! NYC for ever!!!!
Can't 2ait to reveal its motor sound!
And HVAC.
Yup
2ait
@@jaydottt_transitfanner 3ait
Here🇩🇪 motors have to be as quiet as possible.
Loving these new 211 cars, cant wait for the articulated sets and the SIRT sets to come
The technical term for articulated sets is "snakey bois"
!!! AAAHHHH...my brother in law worked on those trains!!! Wow I am proud and glad!!! Wow, the new trains look nice!!!
Shiny! Don't scratch them!
Or else I'm beating the shit outta someone
They'll have rust on them the day they touch passenger service.
I hate my life I just got hit by some thing and I’m mad and pissed end it hurt my feelings😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬
@@trijetz3562 that’s fax lmaooo
Give it a week in service at most.
YES!!! IT LOOKS SO SHINY! I hope it don’t get vandalized!
Yeah I hope it doesn't get vandalized
I hate those dudes who vandalize these poor trains.
Thank god fleets nowadays have stainless steel.
@@thetrainguy500 yeah right…it’s a city out of control
This seriously just looks like If a R160
Just gained 500 pounds
No fr tho lol but looks better than them tho and R179
That R211 is amazing wow
Very nice cars!
As beautiful as these trains are, I'd give it a few years before knuckleheads start to unfortunately try to mess them up, New York can never just have something nice and keep it nice
Why do you say that for every new train car? Would you rather NYC just not have a subway system if it’s unable to replace new train cars?
@@TheRailLeaguer I actually love the new train cars, I just know its frustrating replacing them over and over again because someone wants to scratch/ graffiti them up
I thought they were supposed to be interconnected
There is a variant that will be. It's won't arrive till next year. The majority of the order is made up of these.
The biggest problem with the NYC subway is not the rolling stock. The rats, the fights, the people who do #1 and #2 in the trains and platforms, and the trash that is thrown on the tracks is a far greater problem. You can buy new trains but you cant buy new riders.
cool video on the first r211 subway cars hitting the tracks
Awesome for a new train set watching from Singapore 🇸🇬
I can't wait!
WOW!!!! thank you so mucho for this video. I wish I could've gone to Costco and do some shopping that way I could've witnessed it in person.
Again thank you very much ✌
Nice video!!!!!!!!!
10 cars for NTT tech trains and 8 for cars made from 1946-1990
But we all know we will miss the R46s
That’s incredible!!
Great video quality!
Broooooo how is no one talking about how wide those doors r
Wow for a brand new train its appearce/ style is proper old school, I dig it.
The new subways are gorgeous. But they can't beat the thick skin of those cool little SBK and MTA GE Switchers which are underestimated at best.
I just don't like them short ass windows!!! Other than that it looks amazing!
I hate them too but they had to sacrifice them for the bigger doors. And yet people will still try to hold them open.
They remind me on the short "squarish" windows on the R32s and 38s next to the roll signs
@@Shinycelebi
Should have been 3 doors on each side since they made the door's wider more room for seating.
@@Shinycelebi The sliding door pockets could have been glazed or the sliding doors could have been external. This arrangement went out in London in the 1930s.
@@matthewwhitted9179 Seating is not the priority of the MTA. Moving bodies is the only concern
Excellent footage and nifty e-bike skills too, thanks for sharing! Just wondering, seen other footage of this journey on the West End express track and by that point, an extra loco had been added to the rear of the consist - was that to deal with the grades, to add brake force or give redundancy in transit? Thanks again \m/
Thanks! It acted more as a redundancy. Right after this footage was shot, they had one of the locos run around to the rear. To my knowledge they only used the power of 1 to transport the whole consist.
@@MrRailfan cool, so they were fully kitted out by the time they hit the switches west of 9av, makes sense. Been through a few other clips of yours and subbed with bell, your eye for the subject is special, thanks for doing what you do \m/
I noticed that these aren’t fitted with American flags yet. They’ll probably have them put on at their yard, probably Pitkin.
It's going to coney island, not sure why everyone is saying Pitkin
@knucklehead it probably gonna start the test train on the sea beach line first tho like the r160 did then on to the A and C
It's looks cooler without the American flag
The MTA needed all of that horsepower to move those cars lol.
Mta crew be like: -rolling up like fbi-
R211 looks cool
Geez, the workers must hate all these nerds who flock to these things.
Why are only 20 gonna have open gangways? (By the way, "gangways" are often called "vestibules" in American English.)
They are using it to test weather it's feasible in New york. The next order of cars will have open gangways if it's successful.
@@MrRailfan yeah, also open gangway is alot safer and will not permit from the stupid blinds to fall down the cars when the cross cars. This will eliminate the deaths of people crossing cars and will make the subway more safe, also it is extra space and also doesn't use alot of resources, it also connects the entire train like a car. One downside is if there is one crazy everyone in the train is gonna be expose to that crazy, then again the crazy could just cross cars and not fall down and get killed by the train, then again that is probably worse because th e train could derail when it rolls over the vody. Also idk why I had to go into detail there.
Typical of the MTA. In my 5.5 yrs in NYC I have never heard of nor seen them refer to technology that exists everywhere else in the world. Instead, everything is designed from scratch. Waste of time. Just accept that the world has moved forward and buy the best of the best. Yes they need to be tested on NYC lines, but no they do not need to be engineered from scratch.
Before the fanbois start whinging, note that Amtrak's extremely successful ACS-64 is developed from the Siemens Eurosprinter which has worked wonderfully for German, Austrian, Czech and multiple other national railways in Europe.
@@mkkm945 ah yes, because the design since totally built from scratch an not used from the r160 with some minor changes to the sides and only having a mayor change at the front hmmm. Also idk what you talking about, they have never built open gangways for the subway before, this will likely be inspired by other designs as well, like the London underground tube trains that have open gangway so it is not even from scratch. Overall I don't get your comment and I also don't get why you are complaining, however I'm don't want to start a war so take this comment with a pinch of salt.
@@cesardepena7498 Open gangways have been around in subway/metro systems all over the world for many decades. These are both new and old systems so no excuses there. NYC wanting to 'test' out a design/technology that is globally proven is pointless. It means that we, as commuters, will get the initial batch of cars without the feature which will carry on in service for 20-40 years. Open gangway is such a basic technology at this point and it is very frustrating to see NYC investing in brand new vehicles without a basic standard feature. My point is, there is some strange ego or decision making in MTA that means that we, the fare paying public, suffer with inferior tech and service for decades to come. No war at all - my comment is from frustration.
All the excitement
How do you find out this information??? Is there like a Twitter account or a blog or something??
R211A 4060-4069 Coney Island Yard
So we'll be ever so slightly more comfortable while being stuck in the tunnel. Sweet.
Love that new train smell
You'll eventually dislike the new urine/feces smell as well
@@zazaranger5 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
@@bhigdaddymark r u ok
where is it going?
I see all the other manufacturers, for the equipment under the cars had to use mirror finished labels also.
Wow so shiny
Nice can't wait too ride them 😁
Aww man, I've always wanted to see the R211 in real life, h t I'm not in NYC I'm in Texas :(
bruh could b worse like im in england and i want to see it XD
I see that old destroyed track under the highway all
The time I didn’t know trains could actually run on it! It seems so gutted! Almost thought it would derail
There are signs that say Active Railroad Crossing, they actually ride on the streets.
I don't think Open Gangway is the right choice for NYC. The problem is wind that passes through the inner length of the train. Even in warm weather cities like Singapore and Hong Kong, the wind can be very cold. For NYC, heaven in summer, but hell otherwise. Other cold weather cities like Tokyo do not use.
Wow! Looks dope af where is it going
Coney island
@@MrRailfan Thx, Mr Railfan for the upload!
@@MrRailfan will it then go to pitkin?
@@plushynoob3463 Yes it will 1st it will go to Coney island to test probably today and then it will go to pitkin yard
@@Ashes449
Wouldn’t it have to wait for the 2nd set (4065-4069) to start testing or can it just start now with out it.
I enjoyed video
Damn they finnally came out look at all those mta formers
Where was this at I might have to go thre
**sniff** *they grow up so fast and get out :)*
‘This train is formed of 6 coaches.’
Actually 5 - numbered 4060-4064
I am a railfan, but it would be funny to start filming the railfans going crazy as the main attraction
Since this is on South Brooklyn Railroad's ROW why didn't they use Locomotives N1 and N2, which were the last two SBX locos, they lay up in 39th Street yard, right up the block from here.
They are currently in the shop for repairs
The W should get the R179.
Lookin sharp
when will the next r211 trains arrive i want to see them
Great video. Watching this I realize one of my main complaints about the car design. The side door windows should have been made bigger to compensate for reduction in size of all the windows. I know they want standardization of glass across the fleet but it wouldnt kill them to have a second type of replacement glass in stock.
Now that I look at it, those side windows are a little two square and two small, even a little extending of the windows is helpful so it doesn't look so small.
@@cesardepena7498
It will look more decent and beautiful if the side windows extend a few more inches on the right and the left
Aren't the windows smaller because of the bigger doors?
@@kyatisback12 tech j ally they can still be stretched a couple of inches from side to side, and the door would not appear at the window, so it is more of a choice by MTA, wether it is for safety or something else.
Yes but the door windows could have been expanded.
and now the 211ts are here.
Lookin nice and fresh! See how long it lasts!
maybe 3 or 4 revenue trips.
Lovely catch
Oh my god that is the most awesome train I've ever seen
its not new until the coaches are walk through
it went from the rails next to Costco i thought there was no use if those rails
If I would’ve known this was going on, I would have came to document it myself.
Since when the train can ride on the street?
@@hoodatheist5549 Well, when it’s pulled a few diesel locomotives.
Such tiny windows! Mind you i guess there isnt much to see underground. Looking forward to seeing a vid of them in service.
Where was this recorded at ? And where is the train going ? Pretty cool
Nvm I found out the answers to my question lol .
Whats the coach in between two shunters for and are the 2 guys on the front just there for a day out or something...
Smaller windows for wider doors tradeoff
Can't wait to see them begin running under their own power
I never knew those tracks could be used. I’m guessing they connect to the N and D train tracks near 4th Avenue.
This is interesting.
They connect to the D's southbound track in between 36th street and 9th avenue.
I saw lot's of OpenBVE Dev's in this vid towards the end (Fan Railer?) I can just tell lol!! including (You as well Mr. Railfan) Wow!! hopefully it's an early Christmas for us user's with a perfectly made R-211 Train and it's adjoining routes !!!^0^!!!
How many of them will be bought new?
When do we see them in action?
Hi, do you know when the R211's in New York?, will be in operation, they are beautiful. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Not yet. Plans are for it to start passenger testing in mid 2022
@@MrRailfan ah Ok
So cta and mta are getting new cars huh 🤔🤔🤔
these are brand new? they look like they were designed in the 90s. good ol nyc
Why? Because of the short ass windows?
As of now, 2:29pm eastern time, the R211 set is in Coney Island Yard.
The R211 Is So Shinny Hopefully It Goes On the N and Q lines
@@douglaswells6679 I think it’s going to go on all lines, except for the numbered ones.
Okay I Was also checking that the Mta is Gonna come out with the R262 I'm not sure what Year is coming out
And Gordon The Big Engine was right. His express coaches are very heavy.
Can please someone answer me won't the r211s go on the lines that already have r46s on them is the r211s going in the A,C,G,N,Q,W,S lines?
Surprised the MTA have not gone for the walkthrough style train carriages as seen on London Underground and the U.K. Thameslink franchise
The design looks about 100 years out of date and not in a good way.
I like how there are NO and I mean NO railroad crossings, all them cars be driving everywhere.
Yea this interection very very rarely sees traffic. Maybe once or twice a year if even. There were times when years go by before something moves here.
The old bringing in the new
When are the next 5 cars going to be delivered?
Idk
In a week or so
The Train operator failed his signal exam- the proper whistle signal, in the
NYCT Rue book is 2 long a short and a long at all Railroad Crossigns!
Sweet video
HE IS SO HANDSOME
I thought the subway and work engines had different couplers?
There are adapters to make it compatible
Ok thanks for the information
I love these intermodal trains..