R46 Retirement Thread

[TrainGamingKing9928]

The 9/3 R46 Report from the NYCTST Discord server:

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R46 TRANSFERS / RETIREMENTS / HOLD REPORT AS OF 9/3

Transferred from Pitkin to Coney Island for revenue service: (48)
5890--97, 5946-49, 5978-81, 6010-13, 6022-25, 6038-41, 6106-09, 6178-81, 6186-93)

Put on non-revenue hold or missing parts: (16)

• Pitkin (16): 5902-05 (8/24), 5914-17 (7/24), 6182-85 (6/24), 6228/30 (7/24), 6240/42 (6/24)

Retired and off the active roster: (60)

• CI (8): 5550-53 (4/22), 5810-13 (4/24)

• Pitkin (34): 5910-13 (1/24), 5930-33 (3/24), 5970-73 (8/23), 5974-77 (5/24), 6062 (9/20), 6098-6101 (6/24), 6138-41 (4/24), 6166-69 (3/24), 6214 (9/20), 6236/38 (7/24), 6248/50 (7/24)

• Concourse (18): 5962-65 (6/24), 6130-33 (6/24), 6150-51 (6/17), 6152-53 (6/24), 6158-61 (6/24), 6206-07 (6/24)

Active R46s: 676
Serviceable R46s: 692

Credit to the person who originally posted this information on Discord.

[Ale188]

1 hour ago, TrainGamingKing9928 said:

The 9/3 R46 Report from the NYCTST Discord server:

Credit to the person who originally posted this information on Discord.

Why do y'all always trust this discord shit LMAO

Not saying its wrong but you know.

[BenTheMiner]

On 9/5/2024 at 11:04 AM, Ale188 said:

Why do y'all always trust this discord shit LMAO

Not saying its wrong but you know.

I run this Discord server.

[TrainGamingKing9928]

Not sure if it’s just me, but as someone who takes the  and  trains home from school a lot, I’ve recently started to observe fewer R46’s on the .

Has this been the case for anyone else?

[TyBusLover1]

42 minutes ago, TrainGamingKing9928 said:

Not sure if it’s just me, but as someone who takes the  and  trains home from school a lot, I’ve recently started to observe fewer R46’s on the .

Has this been the case for anyone else?

Same for me, whenever I take the A line I usually see just R179s and R211As which isn’t too surprising considering that there is only around 3-8 sets on the A mostly during rush hour and as for the C, some R46s pop up every now and then.

[zacster]

It's still surprising to me that with all the R211s on the A now they haven't moved more R46s to CI or to another out of the way place for storage until they are officially scrapped.  I went by 38th St the other day on my bike and didn't see any there.

[TrainGamingKing9928]

8 hours ago, zacster said:

It's still surprising to me that with all the R211s on the A now they haven't moved more R46s to CI or to another out of the way place for storage until they are officially scrapped.  I went by 38th St the other day on my bike and didn't see any there.

I don’t think we’ll see any official scrap moves until the MTA thinks there’s a sufficient amount of R211’s in service to consider the R46 fleet “done.”

As for when the scrap moves will start happening, my guess is sometime in early 2025.

Edited 6 hours ago by TrainGamingKing9928

[slantfan4281]

2 hours ago, TrainGamingKing9928 said:

I don’t think we’ll see any official scrap moves until the MTA thinks there’s a sufficient amount of R211’s in service to consider the R46 fleet “done.”

As for when the scrap moves will start happening, my guess is sometime in early 2025.

Yeah, IIRC there's still about 70 R32s left to scrap and the earliest they'll probably be done is the end of the year. They probably won't scrap R46s until they run out of space (so around mid 2025-early 2026ish) and just cannibalize the OOS cars as long as some are still in service (probably at least another year and a half imo). 

On the other hand I expect the SIR cars to be gone pretty quickly because of space and how decrepit they are. If the pilot set can get through the 30 day test by November, they could probably have all cars in service by January-February and start trucking R44s out during the summer. 

Maybe they'll restart the reefing program, that would be cool.