Orion VII 4 Life

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.