B3 Via Av U

Suspended

Runs via 8th Avenue to Far Rockaway

Via Broadway and the BMT 63 Street

Shuttle

First ride in an LFS today! On a scale of 1-10, 9.99. Why? Loud HVAC.

Yeah, I've seen that on quite a number of QV LFSes, I thought that part of the sign was just dead.

 

It isn't dead, on the B3 it says B3 Ave U and then B3 Bensonhurst Harway Avenue just perfectly. I wrote to Ulmer Park Depot asking for a hat and sticker and mentioned that too, a lot of them have that glitch.

Why, why does the 8:12 B3 run to Harway Avenue have to be an RTS? I hate that! Somebody give me an LFS run!

Echoing my request:

C40LF new:

BM6 Battery Park

South End Avenue

BM6: via CI Avenue

via Canal/West St

That's really similar to the old X29: http://www.mta.info/...ess/x025cur.pdf

 

And what a coincidence I was just thinking of the X29 too!

BM6:

Start: Line-Ocean Parkway Station

East on Brighton Beach Avenue...

Left turn onto CI Avenue...

Straight up CI Avenue

==Express Portion Begins at Church Avenue==

Right turn onto Church Avenue

Left turn on Flatbush Avenue

Cross the Manhattan Bridge-Lower Level only!

==Express portion ends when off the bridge==

Straight down Canal Street

==Small non-stop section starts at West Street==

Left turn onto West Street

==Non-stop section ends at South End Avenue==

Right turn onto South End Avenue

Terminates at the loop

Fare: $5.75!

(for the two express sections)

Edit: I just realized that the line doesn't use any expressways or highways!

Request!

Orion VII NG:

BM6: EXPRESS

BM6: via C I AVE

via BRIDGE

BM6: Battery Park

South End Avenue

I ran into Tracy Morgan at the mall today! I got a photo, but don't have a PB account.

Titan sign request:

BM3 Sheepshead Bay

Emmons Avenue

IIIIIII Via Ocean Avenue

Yup, teenagers with their hormones running wild! Don't stare.

 

Teen!?! I'm only 10, turning 11 on the 8th! I'll try not to next time.

I find it easy, I just look around the car, sometimes I see an interesting ad, an interesting object, or some eye candy, if you know what I mean.

 

I stared at a hot babe for a while on the yesterday coming back. Too bad she got off somewhere while I was viewing an interesting ad.

. And I try to find somewhere in the middle...It's difficult sometimes when you're a railfan just trying to sit back and enjoy the ride.

 

I tried to do that yesterday on the while heading out to Canal Street for tea and I ended up looking at the FIND for the entire trip.

My train stopped once or twice in the middle of the bridge for no apparent reason...why?

Anybody have photos of the B3K bus before it was cut when the Brighton Fixup was done?

So to clarify the discussion in the subway Fail Thread:

Everyday rider: Okay, here's a that's taking me to Herald Square for work.

Railfan: Here's a train using track A4 on the Brighton Line. He overran by 4 inches. R68A #5032.

I am the latter.

Edit: My 300^th post!

Here's a vid of the Grand Street running an R68 with the orange on the front. (NOT MY VIDEO)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70McYI4NpyY

Off topic but TwoTimer are you in the crew room right now, and how fast do the Manhattan Bridge timers clear?

I can actually feel the Manhattan Bridge swaying as my train crosses.

And I do it the way I do because it all goes back to rule #1:

 

Pay attention!!

 

If riders can't learn to pay attention and be aware of service changes that are in effect to maximize track usage, that is their problem.

 

Oh, and obviously, in my scenario the Chambers-WTC platform would be closed. People would actually have to walk up to the / platform at Chambers for those trains and switch to the at West 4th OR walk over to Fulton and take the to Essex OR walk to Brooklyn Bridge and take the to Bleecker.

 

It all goes back to knowing your alternate routes, one of the first things I did when I was living in New York and was old enough to take the subway.

 

Really? When trains suddenly and unexpectedly get sent to places where they never normally go, I think that people have the right to be confused.No, it doesn't. "Knowing your alternate routes" is not going to teach you why an train would randomly show up in Brooklyn, or where it's headed.

 

Guys, stop acting like 2-year-olds over this.

NEXT:

Under stress from twisting and turning for 50 years, the trusses on the Manhattan Bridge give way, and the lower level only collapses. Reroute the .

TwoTimer, did you have the R68 that came out of Sheepshead Bay at 1:35 today? I swear that run hit 54 MPH at Newkirk Plaza southbound.

Runs via the 7th Avenue line.

Dyre Shuttle

Pelham Shuttle

Cut back to Queensboro Plaza.

Random thought:

The 4th Avenue power station between Caroll Street and 1 Street has a 1960's TA logo.

I got let into the cab by a T/O on an R68 once, but he had to get us out at Bay 50th Street (he let us in at CI) so that he wouldn't get in trouble.

no, 52. I had a TSS told me he had a slant at 55, but the brakes on those trains were legendary as well. I also had a good 68A train southbound one day months ago and I said if I had it northbound I might have approached 55 on it as well, but of course someone else took it up north and I wasn't operating to test the theory. But it was my first train to enter Newkirk southbound higher than 45.

TwoTimer would you mind PM'ing me a schedule of your trains? I'd like to be on one of them and possibly ask you if I could see how you operate.