{"id":198734,"date":"2026-04-15T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198734\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:31:09","slug":"subway-trespassers-suspected-in-collision-of-parked-a-trains-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198734\/","title":{"rendered":"Subway trespassers suspected in collision of parked A trains in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two parked subways along the Fulton St. Line of the A train<\/a> collided Wednesday morning, the latest instance of subway storage mayhem.<\/p>\n

Shortly before 6 a.m. Wednesday morning, one set of R211 train cars<\/a> parked on a center storage track near the elevated 104th St. A train station in Ozone Park, Queens, began moving without authorization.<\/p>\n

The train promptly collided with another set of R211s.<\/p>\n

Photos obtained by the Daily News show the trains collided with enough force that the gangway of at least one car hopped up onto the gangway of its neighbor \u2014 despite ridged surfaces on the ends of the trains, called \u201canti-climbers,\u201d meant to prevent such movement. The wheels of at least one car were lifted slightly off the rails.<\/p>\n

\"TrainTrain trespassers are suspected of running a parked subway into another parked train near the 104th St. stop of the A train in Queens. (Obtained by Daily News)<\/p>\n

A source with knowledge of the subway system told The News the first train was likely traveling faster than 10 mph when it collided with the parked train.<\/p>\n

MTA crews untangled the two trains by 10:30 a.m., sources said, with all wheels ultimately dropping back onto the tracks.<\/p>\n

The two trains were moved to a yard for further inspection, where damage was found to the couplers of both trains.<\/p>\n

\"TrainTrain trespassers are suspected of running a parked subway into another parked train near the 104th St. stop of the A train in Queens. (Obtained by Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis incident is under active investigation by NYC Transit Safety and Security,\u201d MTA\u2019s executive vice president of subways, Bill Amarosa Jr., told the Daily News. \u201cIt\u2019s premature to speculate on the cause, which when determined will result in appropriate action.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to sources, the MTA notified the NYPD a little more than an hour after the collision was discovered. Police said they had no record of the incident.<\/p>\n

The collision and unauthorized train movement comes just days after two trains were taken for a two-stop joyride<\/a> along the Queens Blvd. Line early Sunday morning \u2014 a pair of train thefts officials suspect to be the work of teenage train enthusiasts.<\/p>\n

A month ago, a group of teens was suspected of breaking into a J train and wedging it into a switch track in lower Manhattan<\/a>, causing more than an hour of delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two parked subways along the Fulton St. Line of the A train collided Wednesday morning, the latest instance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,122,124,123,608],"class_list":["post-198734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}