PATCOman Posted December 8, 2012 Share #1901 Posted December 8, 2012 (edited) Dyre is taking Dispatcher cues from Flatbush. 2s turning into 5s! Same thing happens at Astoria too with the s turning into s. Edited December 9, 2012 by PATCOman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatOne2k Posted December 8, 2012 Share #1902 Posted December 8, 2012 Are some trains starting/ending at E 180 St at the beginning/end of service while the is at Dyre? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowblock Posted December 9, 2012 Share #1903 Posted December 9, 2012 Nope. The 2227 Bowling Green-Dyer was the last of the night. The is handling overnight service. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Concourse Posted December 9, 2012 Share #1904 Posted December 9, 2012 Dyre is taking Dispatcher cues from Flatbush. 2s turning into 5s! Lol, thank god it isn't an R62A on either line. Must be a real 'joy' to manually change all the roll signs at both terminals. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatOne2k Posted December 9, 2012 Share #1905 Posted December 9, 2012 Nope. The 2227 Bowling Green-Dyer was the last of the night. The is handling overnight service. I meant E 180 St being used as a north terminal, not south. onthego.mta.info (and tripplanner) has a schedule showing that the first few trains in the morning start service at E 180 St-Bowling Green and the last few trains are Bowling Green-E 180 St (Saturday night only, Sunday is normal). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowblock Posted December 9, 2012 Share #1906 Posted December 9, 2012 No, there aren't any 's which have E180 as the NORTH terminal this weekend. Or any other weekend. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lance Posted December 9, 2012 Share #1907 Posted December 9, 2012 I finally remembered to post something I've been meaning to do for quite a while... As you may know, some of the track maps on nycsubway.org are somewhat inaccurate. Well, [fairly] recently, Robert Marrero created a diagrammatic track map of the entire system which is entirely up to date. It's available as a pdf file and a png image in the link below. http://b24blog.blogs...-842-miles.html 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fresh Pond Posted December 9, 2012 Share #1908 Posted December 9, 2012 That's some nice work he did there...i was going to do one on my own using graph paper but there were some spots that I wasn't sure of (180 St, 36 St area on the QBL) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realizm Posted December 9, 2012 Share #1909 Posted December 9, 2012 R68 = Built by Westinghouse ~ Fleet #s 2500-2924 R68A = Built by Kawasaki ~ Fleet #s 5001-5200 R68 = Built by Westinghouse ~ Fleet #s 2500-2924 R68A = Built by Kawasaki ~ Fleet #s 5001-5200 1.The door to the operator's cab slides open on an R68A as opposed to swinging open on an R68. 2. The R68 and R68A fleets have different window frames. 3. Unlike the R68s, the R68As do not feature rims around the red door indicator lights. 4. The "MTA New York City Subway" logos are arranged differently between the two car types. 5. The side ribbing runs all the way to the car ends and side doors on an R68, but taper off on approach on an R68A. 6. Only the R68s have a metal bar separating the side sign from window, while the R68A has one solid pane of glass. 7. The R68s have unit numbers in the 2000-series while the R68As have numbers in the 5000-series. Anything else I'm forgetting, please post/add below.... That's some detailed stats right there. There's some more differences: 1) The builder nameplates are clearly different, that's a well known fact we all know. R68Bs say Westinghouse, whereas the R68As say Kawasaki. Some of the cars numbered between 2725-2924 (can't exactly remember) carrys the Alstom or the Jeumont Schneider plate. 2) The exterior of the R68A are dull, whereas the exterior of the R68A are shiny (seems that way to me) Don't quote me on this but I think I'm right. Must be the slight differences in the metal alloys used in the carbody. construction. 3) The cab doors are different. The 68A cab door slides open, the 68 cab door open into the cab. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Concourse Posted December 9, 2012 Share #1910 Posted December 9, 2012 If you mean the Concourse R68s looks 'shinier' than the CI R68As, then I think it's more to do with Concourse washing the trains more often than CI. I think CI can't wash their cars with chemicals because it would leak into the creek or something* Don't quote me on this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoTimer Posted December 10, 2012 Share #1911 Posted December 10, 2012 (edited) At the moment, the only operable car wash in the INT/BMT is at CCY, and trains of all types and from all yards have gone up there to wash recently (from R32 all the way to R160, only thing not seen yet is a R62/A). The dispatcher dislikes when all these train operators go up there as many of them do not even know the yard (and wishes the one at the other end at least queries as to knowledge of CCY before sending their guys/gals up there to wash, purely on OT btw). Edited December 10, 2012 by TwoTimer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alejr88 Posted December 11, 2012 Share #1912 Posted December 11, 2012 Wonder why the R160s at 121 St they don't mention the connection to the Q10 to JFK, I mean Lefferts Blvd is only two blocks away from the station. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowblock Posted December 11, 2012 Share #1913 Posted December 11, 2012 As you may know, some of the track maps on nycsubway.org are somewhat inaccurate. Well, [fairly] recently, Robert Marrero created a diagrammatic track map of the entire system which is entirely up to date. It's available as a pdf file and a png image in the link below. Oh god, it has 76 St on it...... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lance Posted December 11, 2012 Share #1914 Posted December 11, 2012 Yeah, I'm aware of that... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowblock Posted December 11, 2012 Share #1915 Posted December 11, 2012 Wonder why the R160s at 121 St they don't mention the connection to the Q10 to JFK, I mean Lefferts Blvd is only two blocks away from the station. I'm on car 8380 right now and the FIND is showing Q10 to JFK at 121. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MTA Bus Posted December 11, 2012 Share #1916 Posted December 11, 2012 All and trains have the Q10 to JFK on the F.I.N.D and the announcement. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alejr88 Posted December 11, 2012 Share #1917 Posted December 11, 2012 It was probably a glitch or something, because there was one time I rode it there and there were no other announcements at 121 St. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S78 via Hylan Posted December 11, 2012 Share #1918 Posted December 11, 2012 Last weekend, I make perfect connections between the and and 59 St, Brooklyn and 36 St as well. If I recall, someone made a thread about those two lines never making a connection. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreeddekalbL Posted December 12, 2012 Share #1919 Posted December 12, 2012 (edited) i know this is late but you wanna know whats funny? the fact the media meaning of the H train they say the train is named H because it travels over hammels wye i know why its really H lol Edited December 12, 2012 by BreeddekalbL 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lance Posted December 12, 2012 Share #1920 Posted December 12, 2012 i know this is late but you wanna know whats funny? the fact the media meaning of the H train they say the train is named H because it travels over hammels wye i know why its really H lol Gotta love 'em. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowblock Posted December 12, 2012 Share #1921 Posted December 12, 2012 i know why its really H lol Yep it's the Hurricane train! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamaica Line Posted December 12, 2012 Share #1922 Posted December 12, 2012 Found something worth posting... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JubaionBx12+SBS Posted December 12, 2012 Share #1923 Posted December 12, 2012 I decided to take the liberty of timing every single step of my commute and here it is.... 8:08 I leave my house 8:18 Arrive at Bartow/Edson Avenues bus stop 8:23 Board Bx12+SBS bus to Pelham Bay Park 8:29 Arrive at Pelham Bay Park station 8:35 train leaves Pelham Bay Park 9:01 I get off of at 125 Street 9:02 Board Bowling Green bound at 125 Street 9:19 I get off of said at Grand Central 9:20 Board Brooklyn Bridge bound at Grand Central 9:24 I get off at 23rd Street, commute over 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peacemak3r Posted December 12, 2012 Share #1924 Posted December 12, 2012 I hate it when it's 10 minute or so before a schedule maintenance on a line and MTA decides to screw me over another 15 minutes by going ahead of schedule. Finished my Accounting Finals Part 1, and my Q was at Prospect Park and went express to Sheepshead a few minutes earlier than the proposed 9:45AM-3PM scheduling. Blah. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drag0nflamez Posted December 12, 2012 Share #1925 Posted December 12, 2012 Found something worth posting... Why do they sound different nowadays? (after the first phase of acceleration) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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