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.

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 ...

The R32 cars are currently 47 years old and already well past the standard expected useful life of 40 years. Now these cars will be required to remain in service for at least another 6 years until ...

And there was no shortage of R32 diehards there to see it off. “This is the end of an era,” MTA rider Zorick Johnson—who showed up for the final ride with a model of the R32 and a conductor ...

The MTA has been pushing off retirement of these old cars for more than a decade now, partly because of delays in their last order of cars. But now, the Brightliners are finally set to leave the ...

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. Over ...