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Bon voyage: Old subway cars float off across New York Harbor

Railroad barge workers offload retired 1960s-era New York City R-32 subway cars at Greenville Yard in Jersey City, N.J., on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. From here, the old subway cars will travel by rail to an Ohio scrapyard as the MTA installs new R-179 train cars into the city's sprawling subway system. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) Railroad barge workers offload retired 1960s-era New York City R-32 subway cars at Greenville Yard in Jersey City, N.J., on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. From here, the old subway cars will travel by rail to an Ohio scrapyard as the MTA installs new R-179 train cars into the city's sprawling subway system. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) Railroad barge workers offload retired 1960s-era New York City R-32 subway cars at Greenville Yard in Jersey City, N.J., on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. From here, the old subway cars will travel by rail to an Ohio scrapyard as the MTA installs new R-179 train cars into the city's sprawling subway system. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) Railroad barge workers offload retired 1960s-era New York City R-32 subway cars at Greenville Yard in Jersey City, N.J., on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. From here, the old subway cars will travel by rail to an Ohio scrapyard as the MTA installs new R-179 train cars into the city's sprawling subway system. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) One World Trade Center in Manhattan is visible from a railroad barge carrying retired 1960s-era R-32 subway cars through New York Harbor in New York, on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Crews are taking the old subway cars to an Ohio scrapyard as the MTA installs new R-179 train cars into the city's sprawling subway system. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) Donald Hutton, director of New York New Jersey Rail for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, describes how chains hold a retired 1960s-era R-32 subway train car on a flatcar on a railroad barge as it floats through New York Harbor in New York, on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Crews are taking the old subway cars to an Ohio scrapyard as the MTA installs new R-179 train cars into the city's sprawling subway system. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) One World Trade Center in Manhattan is visible from a railroad barge carrying retired 1960s-era R-32 subway cars through New York Harbor in New York, on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Crews are taking the old subway cars to an Ohio scrapyard as the MTA installs new R-179 train cars into the city's sprawling subway system. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
Bon voyage: Old subway cars float off across New York Harbor