The R160 is built to run on the IND/BMT lines (the lettered ones), but no announcement has been made as to which line yet. NYC Subway.org on the R160 , some more photos on Tien's site , and ...

Damaged car shells, windows that did not seal properly, and a shortage of parts hindered the company’s ability to produce 400 of the 660 R160 subway cars awarded by New York City Transit as part of a ...

Those two lines have been testing the new R160 car since last August, a New York City Transit spokesman confirmed to us, adding eight to ten a week. (The initial order was for 660; next week ...

An R160 subway train. The HVAC systems sit on the tops of subway cars, and performing maintenance on one of them requires the car’s entire roof to be removed and shipped to a separate location.

All 1,662 R160 subway cars have arrived and are ready to roll on the N, Q, M, J, Z, L, E and F lines. @NYCTSubwayScoop From @NYCTSubwayScoop ...

MTA New York City Transit’s new R160 subway cars have set a record for service reliability: A Mean Distance Between Failures (MDBF) of 1.2 million miles for the month of December 2009. The cars’ ...