The MTA’s recent order of 378 R268 cars includes 11 eight-car trains that will be sent to the C line to replace the still-new, 10-car R211 sets that have been running for less than two years.

The new light-rail train, linking Queens and Brooklyn, would signal a shift in the city’s center of gravity, toward one less tethered to the office towers of Midtown.

Two New York City civil engineers accomplished their goal of visiting every metro system in the country, topping off their nine-year-long adventure with Honolulu’s Skyline.