Improvised Blue Striped Farewell. The Beginning Of The End Of The Pullman Era. On the night of Thursday, April 10, 2025, MTA NYCT Subway transported a 8-car train of Pullman-Standard R-46 subway cars from 38 Street Yard to the South Brooklyn Railway interchange in Brooklyn, New York. This was the first train of R-46s to be moved off of the property for scrap. The cars, which were built 1974-1978, saw mid-life General Overhaul at Morrison–Knudsen between 1990–1992. After being delayed by a strike at the Pullman-Standard plant in Chicago, they arrived in New York, but suffered from cracked trucks and other mechanical problems. At the end, they will have survived about 50 years in regular service, and for now can still be seen running alongside their replacements, the R211As, daily. While they were vandalized in storage pending disposition, some of the paint did find its way to restriping some of the cars blue, similar to their as delivered appearance. The cars will later be transported by NYNJ Rail to their eventual scrap location.
