The R68 is a B Division New York City Subway car order consisting of 425 cars built by the Westinghouse-Amrail Company, a joint venture of Westinghouse, ANF Industrie, Jeumont Schneider, and Alstom. T
Interior of an R68 car
The interior side route & destination rollsign on an R68
Exterior fixed side signage dedicated to the Franklin Avenue Shuttle
R68s in service on the D in 1987
The R211 is a class of New Technology Train subway cars built for the New York City Transit Authority. Being built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing for the B Division of the New York City Subway and
R68 (New York City Subway car)
…of which is likely to replace the R68 and R68A. In September 2024, the MTA further indicated that a handful of R68 and R68A cars would be retired by R211 cars. The MTA also wanted to replace the rest of the R68 and R68A fleet with 355 new 60-foot-long (18 m) cars, thereby retiring the last remaining…
An A train of R211As approaching 80th Street
The interior of an R211A car
The LED side destination sign of an R211
The interior of an R211 car, showing its wide doors, LCD screens, digital advertising, yellow flip-up seats, door opening indicators, and looped stanchions