R142A

The R142A is a New York City Subway car used in Transit City 2 and 3. It will be used in Transit City 4 in the future.

Information
The R142A is the second order of new technology cars (NTTs) for the A Division of the New York City Subway. These cars were built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Yonkers, New York, United States Lincoln, Nebraska and Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan. They replaced the Redbird trains, including the R26, R28, R29, R33, R33S, and R36. The R142A fleet initially comprised 600 cars, arranged as five-car units.

The first R142As entered service on July 10, 2000 as part of its 30-day revenue acceptance test. After successful completion, it entered revenue service by November 2, 2000. The fleet initially ran on the 4 and 6 services of the IRT Lexington Avenue Line. The R142As, along with the R142s, are the first New York City Subway cars to feature recorded announcements. In 2011–2016, 380 cars (7211 to 7590) were retrofitted with communications-based train control (CBTC) for the automation of the Flushing Line and became part of the R188 fleet, leaving 220 cars (7591 to 7810) in the R142A fleet. In January 2019, the MTA has proposed mid-life upgrades to the remainder of the R142As.

Transit City 2
The first generation R142As are used on the Lexington Avenue Line. They are identical to the R142s used on the Seventh Avenue Line, the only difference are the sounds.

Transit City 3
The second and third generation R142As are used on the West Line, on the 4 and 6 trains.

Old
The second generation of R142As were used on the 6 train. They were identical to the ones used in Transit City 2, except for the logo.

They were retired because many people has been asking TransitCity_World for a new R142A and he made one but it was a little too big so he had to make a whole another one a little smaller.

New
The third generation R142As in Transit City 3 were put into service after the retirement of the old one. The new one has sliding doors and modern wheels.