Subway Work Trains & R-255 Transfer

A pair of work trains working Pelham couple up in the station before departing with a road 6 train for context, then head over to the D Line, where Work 29 passes with the newest subway work locomotive.

Battery Loco On The Move. MTA NYCT Subway HL002 R-255/Wabtec WAB6HYB, is a 675hp hybrid battery work locomotive designed for the demands and clearances of the New York City Subway system. For this move on Sunday, August 11, 2024, it was paired R-156/Wabtec-MPI MP8AC-3 OL925 as it traveled the system. Two of these new locomotives are now on the property of an anticipated total of 25 under the R-255 contract.

The Wabtec WAB6HYB/R-255 is a 675hp hybrid work locomotive designed for the demands and clearances of the New York City Subway system. The diesel engine charges the batteries, which will allow the locomotive to operate for 8 hours. This will allow a new generation of locos to pull work trains through the subway with a much lower level of emissions. MTA NYCT Subway presently rosters 90 diesel engines that operate on non-revenue work trains, and is adding this 25 unit order of R-255s as well as the 10 R-77Es under conversion to R-257s by CAD Railway Industries to increase the size and flexibility of the fleet.

00:00 Whitlock Avenue, Bronx, NY (6 Line)
04:33 145 St-St. Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY (D Line)

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