“New York City’s newest train model was unveiled in Brooklyn Thursday – and the faster cars will provide a ‘dramatic upgrade’ to subway services across the city, the MTA vowed. The R211s, built in Nebraska by Japanese manufacturer Kawasaki, will replace the 46-year-old R46 model in 2022, officials said. The new car comes equipped with modern signal tech that the MTA says allows faster train service. ‘This is a dramatic upgrade to our ability to really service New Yorkers with more capacity and more trains,’ MTA exec Janno Lieber said, before he and New York City Transit Authority officials whisked the cars off to a railyard in Coney Island for testing.”
“Keith Sylvan, 18, of the Upper West Side, stood outside the fence at Thursday’s event with about a dozen other rail fans. He told The Post he’d been following the R211’s development since design planning began nine years ago. ‘They look almost futuristic,’ Sylvan said. ‘They look like something straight out of the 21st century'” the New York Post reports on NYC’s newest subway car models and this kid who apparently forgot it isn’t still 1991 and it’s kind of weird to describe something that way when it is quite literally straight out of the 21st century.