Subway Locomotives Delivered By Sea. Early on the morning of Tuesday, May 7, 2025, NYNJ Rail moved two MTA NYCT Subway NYCT R-255/Wabtec WAB6HYB locomotives (HL009 and HL011) across New York Harbor for delivery. The locomotives were loaded on the NYNJ 200 barge and powered across New York Harbor by McAllister Towing's 'Bruce McAllister'. After arrival in Brooklyn, they were transported by NYNJ Rail to the South Brooklyn Railway interchange with the MTA, where they were unloaded from flat cars and moved on to the subway system. A number of the R-255s already on the property are already in service for work trains.

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. The NYCT is adding this 25 unit order of R-255s, as well as 45 additional units under a contract option, and the 10 R-77Es under conversion to R-257s by CAD Railway Industries to increase the size and flexibility of the fleet.

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