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The Staten Island Railway’s cars are long overdue for an upgrade. Cars currently running on the system were introduced over 50 years ago, but they are soon going to be replaced. This week ...
Erik Thomas/NY Post Brown asked whether the 75 state-of-the-art R211S cars ordered up for the Staten Island Railway could be used on the city’s subway system “since representatives from Staten ...
The subway’s forgotten borough entered the 21st century Tuesday, as the first set of new R-211 train cars entered passenger service on the Staten Island Railway. The cars — a variant of the R ...
The Staten Island Railway should be stripped of promised new trains over the borough’s vocal opposition to the now-paused congestion-pricing program, an MTA board member suggested. Plans call ...
sleek new train for the Staten Island Railway (SIR) has been pulled from service due to technical issues. Recently, the Advance/SILive.com received an anonymous tip saying that the SIR’s newest ...
The MTA is rolling out new R211 subway cars to run on the Staten Island Railway, the agency announced on Tuesday. The cars were transported on flatbed trucks from Brooklyn to their current ...
The MTA on Tuesday rolled out new train cars on the Staten Island Railway for the first time in 50 years. Transit officials christened the new cars — called R211s — during an inaugural ride ...