Orion VII 4 Life

Had quite the experience with Sprint over the past few weeks. My Evo Shift's screen was going nuts, and it wasn't recognizing touch properly. So I took it in to the Sprint store, got a free replacement, and within a few days the screen just stopped lighting up on that. So, I took it in AGAIN, got another replacement today, and now the U button on the keyboard won't work unless you push hard on it. I pointed it out to the guys in the Sprint store as it was like that when I picked it up, but they refused to replace this one, they don't think you have to press hard on it, so I really don't know what to do.

Weren't there 2 sets on the a few weeks back? Haven't heard anything about them since.

The wraps are like lipstick on a pig. Veolia has no maintanance whatsoever. Thats how they are "able" to run a bus system for much less than the MTA, because they dont maintain the buses! Fortunately they'll be easy enough to remove IF the comes back.

 

Veolia is a MULTI-NATIONAL corporation. The is a government agency who has a MONOPOLY on public buses in NYC. Who's gonna have the better maintenance? Veolia will provide good maintenance if Nassau County told them to start maintaining the buses better, since it's all about the money. They will do whatever they can to satisfy the County and convince them to continue using their services because they make MONEY operating NICE, but it's the County's job to COMPLAIN to Veolia when necessary so they will provide better service. They probably know Mangano will not threaten to cut them off no matter what they do, so they couldn't care less here about providing this kind of maintenance as it saves them money. This is the same with NJT buses in Monmouth County that they operate. They definitely aren't the nicest buses in the NJT system (though they weren't that bad last time I rode one), but NJT isn't complaining about it so they will continue to provide the same levels of maintenance they currently do because they know NJT will keep writing them checks.

Do R179's have CTBC? No. Won't work.

The R160s didn't have them, they were retrofitted with it. They can do the same with these.

LOL. It's 4 & 5 car sets. If the (C ) dosen't get the R179's, what cars will it get? You can't always base the future completly on history.

 

It's a good question, since the all the cars older than 143s/160s that will be in service at that time are 75 footers. I'd say they'd put 46s, maybe 68s on, but they'd have to make the train just or almost as long as they are now (meaning the length of 8 60 foot cars). That would be 4-6 75 footers I guess, I'm too lazy to do the math right now.

If I'm following, the (J)/(Z) will be running mostly R160's with 50 R179's, and the (C ) will be 100% R179.

 

The and (C ) never get the new cars, so they'll find something else to put on that. If there are gonna be 4 car sets, they're going to ENY, which means . Just because the lines that use R32s and R42s are gonna lose those cars, it doesn't mean they're gonna get the new cars coming in to replace them.

This has my seal of approval. Go Bombardier!

I'm so happy ALSKAW didn't win this one. That Alstom propulsion gets so annoying when I have to sit on a train for a while (like if I'm on a from lower Manhattan to Roosevelt or 71st which I am often). I'm thinking we might get the same propulsion as the CTA 5000 series on the 179s, which is also rather high-pitched, but it doesn't sound nearly as annoying as Alstom. Plus, it's great to see an order that's not going to have any Kawasaki involvement, 'bout time that happened. Not like they don't build a good railcar, but we need some variety in the NTT fleet already.

Due to a rail condition at the W 4 Street- Washington Square Station:

 

Uptown ( and trains are running local from the W 4 Street- Washington Square Station to the 34 Street- Herald Square Station.

 

Select Forest Hills bound trains terminate at the Chambers Street Station.

 

Please expect delays on , and trains at this time.

 

 

By Chambers, I guess they mean Chambers on the .

Contract Award for 340 cars now scheduled for March...... Let's see how this plays out.

Keepin' my fingers crossed for BOMBARDIER.

3997 is at Fresh Pond, caught it running the B52 and it still has the Castleton stickers.

IMAG0322 by blitz_126, on Flickr

 

I think the picture says it all...

Yes! Glad to see they're getting rid of those things.

More LFSA please.

Just got off a Brooklyn-bound running on the . .info just says "delays" with no further details.

Wait... what time were you at 46 St?

on a side note, I can see Jct Bl sta from my window, and the same train was sitting there for about 2 hours. I guess the backup was really bad!

I was at 46 St at around 5. On my train, we didn't stop rolling smoothly until past Queensboro Plaza, where the train sat in front of this building with a painting of Biggie Smalls and a ton of other graffiti on it (don't know that area very well, but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about) for 10 minutes, then it stopped every couple hundred feet after from 5-10 minutes each stop.

Around 5 PM today, Manhattan-bound trains were wrong railing from Hunterspoint to Grand Central, apparently there was a train in emergency brake at Vernon-Jackson. Not sure how the Queens-bound (7)s ran. I was actually on a , and I didn't see anything when we went through Vernon-Jackson, but it took me about an hour to get from 46th Street (where I got on) to Times Square, as the train kept getting stopped every few hundred feet or so after Queensboro Plaza for 5-10 minutes at a time.

R32s don't suck, they're pieces of history. The NTTs are just better, a lot better.

then wheres the compatability with the conversion sets? past operations (the practice of mix n match consists up untill the 1980s) have lead the mta to run sets of the same specs. you never see 160s linked with 143s. if they have C cars built with FINDs, or even LED signs opposed to the current lcd signs, then the conversion carsmust have them too. and as we've seen from pics of the first 188 conversion set, that isnt the case. otherwise, the set that arrived woulda had the new specs, FINDs and all.

They can run R160 Alstom and Siemens together.

I personally am hoping for Bombardier as well. Kawasaki would be rather nice, but they made most of the NTTs and I'd really like to see some more variety.