I love the R44 and I would really miss them if they get scrapped. The R44s have always looked so nice on the A line.

You're not seeing R40Ms on the A, those are R42s.

This is all due to more R160s coming in. As you may or may not know, East New York Yard (for the JLMZ trains) has been receiving a steady flow of R160As from Alstom. The Yard can't keep up with maintenance and has little yard space now. R160As have been running on the L and Z but cannot run on the J because of problems with CCTV (all you need to know is that these monitors are the key to the J getting R160s).

Since R160As have hit the M recently, this frees up more R42s to be retired. So this is the deal. ENY Yard will send R42s to Pitkin Yard (for the A and C trains). Pitkin in turn will take these R42s and send their Phase I R32s to Jamaica Yard. This will replace R32 Phase II cars which have been performing poorly (namely the brake equipment, ergo the screeching brakes). For every 12 R42s ENY sends every week, Pitkin sends 12 R32 Phase I cars and Jamaica sends 12 R32 Phase II cars to 207th Street Yard for the reef.

This means the R44s are staying on the A, don't worry about that. R44s aren't going anywhere until at least 2015. The equipment transfer also means that the C will become mainly R38s, and the A R42 and R160. When more R160s come in the R42s will also disappear from the A line and be replaced. It's only temporary.

Currently, R42s 4550-4575 are at Pitkin Yard. You can refer to my subway car datasheet to keep up with the R42s transferred to Pitkin.

The R160's are not I repeat they are not going to the A line the R42's and the R40M is going to stay on the A line for a while, The R160 option order cars are going to be mainly on the Q and W lines!!! 207th st shops and pikin are not ready for R160s yet.

no not the slants, the R40M is what ive been seeing. Why are these trains going to the A line? The A train is the train is take the most and I really wouldnt wanna have to take it using cheap outdated cars. I always hated the R40 and now seeing them on my line. I will complain to the MTA about this.

yeah yesterday i was in hoyt/schermerhorn and i saw an r42 A train. i couldnt quite get the #'s. the slants however are not around for too long no more. the last ones will end up on the B as the N/W reefed all of theres. i heard 70% them are already gonefor :(.

this is the issue i have with this city all this money and when outsiders come they see this piece of crtap rolling on the most famous line!

this is the issue i have with this city all this money and when outsiders come they see this piece of crtap rolling on the most famous line!

You're absolutely right. The R32 is old and pathetic.