Goodbye: Old subway cars float away in NY Harbor

(16 Jun 2022)
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New York - 15 June 2022
1. Subway cars with One World Trade Center in the background
HEADLINE: Goodbye: Old subway cars float away in NY Harbor
1. R-32 train is loaded onto railroad barge
ANNOTATION: It's the end of the line for many of the old subway cars that remain in New York City rail yards.
2. R-32 shining in sun
ANNOTATION: Millions of people have traveled on the shiny R-32 cars, nicknamed Brightliners, since their introduction in the mid-1960s, but the days when the iconic stainless steel cars were used to transport passengers are long gone.
3. Zoom out from One World Trade Center to floating subway cars
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Hutton, New York New Jersey Rail/Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
We are moving the iconic R-32 subway cars that have been in existence since 1964 for final removal for the scrapping and recycling of their parts to make room for new cars that are bing put into the system."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Hutton, New York New Jersey Rail/Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
"I wouldn't so much (call it) a 'funeral,' but I would say it's more of a respectful movement out of the system. They owe it to be put out on rail. It's while they existed their lives for decades. So they deserved to be brought to their final rest out on a rail system."
ANNOTATION: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has replaced the R-32s with newly-built R-179 cars, and the R-32s are now being floated away on a railroad barge across New York Harbor, headed to Jersey City and then Ohio, where their parts will be turned into scrap metal, recycled or saved for selling as memorabilia or collectibles.
6. Various of R-32s on railroad barge
STORYLINE:
It's the end of the line for many of the old subway cars that remain in New York City rail yards.
When New York City put R-32s into service in the mid-1960s, people called the 600 shiny new train cars "Brightliners." Over several decades, millions of people have traveled on R-32s, but the days when the iconic stainless steel cars were used to transport passengers are long gone.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the New York City subway system, has removed all R-32s from the transportation network and replaced them with newly built R-179 train cars.
The R-32s are now being floated away to Jersey City, fated to be turned into scrap metal.
Several years ago, outdated NYC subway cars were placed in the Atlantic Ocean to create artificial reefs to protect the shoreline from flooding and provide habitat for sea life. But the stainless steel trains collapsed in the salt water, so scrapping the metal is now the preferred way to dispose of old NYC subway cars.
On a recent morning, chains held 11 of the old R-32s atop flat railway freight cars. A crew at the 65th Street Yard in Brooklyn loaded them onto a barge affixed with railroad tracks and floated them to Jersey City.
Donald Hutton of New York New Jersey Rail operates the barge, part of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He said it is a fitting tribute to the R-32s that they are being removed from the city across New York Harbor on a boat with railroad tracks.
"I wouldn't so much (call it) a 'funeral,' but I would say it's more of a respectful movement out of the system," Hutton said. "They owe it to be put out on rail. It's while they existed their lives for decades. So they deserved to be brought to their final rest out on a rail system."
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[@javierbarrucz7755]

Gone but not forgotten

[@vincentperratore4395]

I thought you said the "old" subway cars, but these look practically new, and made before the punks marked them up.

[@OurMackeyAndDottieShow]

Where can I get one ??

[@Lodimerg]

That's my trains I was working on.

[@lowfurts]

"Where are we going now? To our final stop that's where. We've been here for 60 years we've done our duty. Do you think the others will be used again? No, no not any more maybe for specials but for fulltime service nah never again. Will we be remembered? Definitely. Well it's been nice knowing you since day one. Looks like we're here it's somewhere new but they won't use us. You're right were being put to death although we've dodged death many times this is it"

[@caroperes4437]

I don’t know what keeps happening to the bogies (wheels of the train)

[@arrowpictures2844]

They are recycled I think.

[@Knife_Collector]

Insulate them, install beds and put them out for the homeless.

[@marcuspanag3854]

Yup all old subway cars all dead Their heading scrap

[@geoffreymills9932]

Because we're such a recycling nation, we sink thousands of pounds of stainless steel into the memory nobody cares about, great job new york,

[@thomasabramson100]

Thats what you get with democrats they love to just sink our tax dollars into nothing

[@vaporwave-man]

Bro this channel is dead af🗿🗿