★ Your Sets
Fleet Status of 754 cars built
Find a Car
Type a car number to find its set, or tap any set below. Tap a total above to filter. Tap ☆ Follow inside a set to track it.
⚠ Retirement Watch
What's New
Time Machine
Drag the slider or press play to watch the R46 fleet shrink, month by month. Each square is one car. Tap a square to open its set.
Cars Retired and Scrapped per Month 2023 onward
Show as table
🗺 Line Map Simulation · not real-time
Yard Maps
Where every R46 set is parked, yard by yard. Green-bottomed sets are in service, red are stored retired. Tap a set to open it. Track positions are illustrative; they are not real track assignments.
📍 R46 Spotter Live sightings from fans
Saw an R46 running? Report it so other fans know where to catch one before they're gone. Sightings come from fans like you, not the MTA, so they can be wrong. Stay safe: never go on the tracks, and don't post photos of people.
🚨 Report a sighting
🏆 Top spotters · 7 days
Play
Take the controls from Coney Island. Stop right on the marker, open the doors, stay on schedule and beat the leaderboard.
Type a stop or any message and hear it as a subway announcement, door chime included. Download it too!
Spin a 3D R46, open the doors, change the route sign and step inside.
Snap a photo of a subway car and AI reads the number and opens that car.
Open your free daily pack and collect every R46 car. Trade with friends!
🪧 Rollsign Maker Make your own R46 sign
Design a real-looking R46 destination sign with any route bullet and text, then download it as a picture. Supporters get it without the watermark.
Retired or Rolling?
Car of the Day
Stand Clear…
Ring the door chime and jump to a random R46.
R46 101
The short story
The R46 is a stainless-steel subway car built by Pullman-Standard for New York City's B Division (the lettered lines) and delivered from 1975 to 1978. At 75 feet, each car is longer than the older 60-foot cars it joined.
The fleet had a rough start. Cracks were found in the trucks (the wheel assemblies under each car) soon after delivery, which led to repairs and a long fight with the builder. In the early 1990s the whole fleet went through a general overhaul that rebuilt the cars inside and out. Today they run in linked sets of four cars.
Over five decades R46s have run on many lettered lines. Their last home is Coney Island Yard, serving the N, Q and W. The new R211 fleet is replacing them, and retired sets are stored at the yards until they're sent for scrapping.
Glossary
📸 R46 Collection
Rollsigns, number plates, seats, signs, keepsakes: show off your R46 items. Sign in with Google to send a photo. Every request is reviewed before it goes public.
Send a Photo
Collection Rules
✅ Your own photos of R46 items, parts, signs or cars.
✅ One item per photo, with a clear title.
🚫 No people's faces, license plates or personal info.
🚫 No trespassing photos, spam or anything offensive.
Breaking the rules can get your account suspended or permanently banned.
My Requests
The Collection
💬 R46 Chat Be kind · posts can be reported
🃏 R46 Trading Cards
PACKDAILY
Collect every R46 car
Open a free pack every day. Each pack has 5 cards. Rarer cars are harder to find, and when a car retires in real life, its card changes too.
📒 My Binder
🔁 Trades
🏆 Top collectors
Keep the R46 Fleet Tracker rolling
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Where your money goes
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Hosting & storagePays for the servers, the chat and Collection photos.
Email alertsLets the site email you when your set retires.
New featuresMore games, more history, more R46.
Other ways to help (free!)
Send a photoAdd your R46 items to the Collection.
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