MTA car inspector Andy Liu inspects and repairs the door mechanisms on a R32 car at the 207th Street Train Yard Facility Thursday, Feb. 27, in Manhattan, New York.

A train buff and former MTA cleaner with a history of trespassing arrests on NYC Transit property lost his bid to become a subway train operator when he was tossed out of training class this week.

The notoriously ancient R32 train cars, which were introduced in the 1960s and still run along the C line, will soon be a thing of the past. The New York Post reports that some of those cars will ...

You're going to have to pry the cold, dead R32 fleet's barely running cars from the subway tracks, because they aren't leaving anytime soon.

The 600 cars initially ordered by the MTA were reportedly projected to remain in service for 35 years, but the R32 soldiered on, staying in regular passenger service into 2020, by which point they ...

The MTA is holding a pop-up holiday sale this week, where rail fans can snag subway signs, benches, trash cans and even pieces from the discontinued R32 trains known as the Brightliners.

Only 222 are left, some of the oldest subway cars in the world. The MTA invited NY1 for a tour of the 207th Street maintenance shop to see the TLC it takes to keep these trains running.

For C train riders there is a small silver lining in the New Year: it means we are creeping closer to new cars, due to arrive in 2017.