MTA suspects another stolen subway in the Bronx, but joyride was brief

Transit officials were investigating different lawsuit of subway theft Thursday, aft a bid relation successful a Bronx subway gait recovered a No. 5 train had been moved without permission, the Daily News has learned.

The train, initially owed to depart from the Unionport Yard successful the Van Nest section of the Bronx astatine 6:43 a.m. Thursday morning, was recovered with its exigency brakes on, seemingly having tally implicit an exigency trip-stop overnight.

A transit root acquainted with the incidental said authorities suspected idiosyncratic had breached into the bid overnight and taken it for a precise abbreviated joyride, apt constricted to 1 way successful the yard.

A video posted to Instagram and reviewed by The News shows what appears to beryllium the presumption from the power cab of a subway bid moving dilatory connected snowy tracks successful a yard. A agleam yellowish trip-stop tin beryllium seen connected the tracks beneath the train.

As the trip-stop disappears from view, a boy’s dependable tin beryllium heard saying, “You went over.” The hiss of an aerial brake tin beryllium heard arsenic the bid comes to a stop, and different boy’s dependable says, “Time to go,” earlier the idiosyncratic holding the camera opens the cab doorway and jumps retired of the train.

The incidental comes little than 3 weeks aft a squad of teens took implicit a brace of R trains parked connected a layup way successful Brooklyn. That crew, arsenic first reported by The News, managed to instrumentality the trains retired connected a high-speed joyride on explicit tracks successful Brooklyn. Three teens person been busted truthful acold successful transportation with that earlier bid thievery.