The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is seeking proposals from rail car manufacturers for its largest subway car contract in history with a base order of 1,140 subway cars to replace the R62 and R62A fleets operating on the 1, 3, 6 lines. If MTA exercises an option to purchase an additional 1,250 cars, these would replace the R142 and R142A cars on the 2, 4, 5 lines.
In total, the contract includes 2,390 new subway cars, more cars than the Chicago Transit Authority and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s subway fleets combined. The new cars, model R262, will be funded by the MTA’s 2025-29 Capital Plan, which received a historic $68 billion in funding in the FY26 Enacted State Budget.
MTA chair and CEO Janno Lieber said, “So much of our capital investment goes unseen, but this next subway car order – our largest ever — is a major step to visibly delivering the modern transit system New Yorkers deserve.”
Rendering courtesy of MTA.
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