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I have to stop Downtown tomorrow morning... All I can say is thank God for the BxM18...

 

Man VG8 you must be swiping your MetroCard half to death!

Random thought:

 

Have you guys ever noticed how a crowded train sounds quieter than an empty train from the inside? I'm pretty sure that it's true. I'm guessing that the people's bodies inside the train absorb the sound waves.

 

I think it may be that people are feeling awakward crowded next to complete strangers and would prefer not to speak. That's how I feel during the rush hour in the subway.

My random thoughts:

R68A #5038 has a poster advertising the Court Square and Jay Street-MetroTech transfer, but it shows an orange .

On the local in Brooklyn today, a lady who was to slow to decide and get off at Sheepshead Bay got her leg caught in the door, and scolded by the conductor.

R160s seem faster.

 

The R160s are fast, they have reached 53 miles per hour on the northbound stretch between Prospect Park and Seventh Avenue.

just noticed that after nearly two years, Dave P. finally bothered get the map on his main page fixed. One of the last vestages of the Brown M in our lives is gone.

 

Untrue! I'll dig out my old '93 subway map!

It's pointless because the travel time is roughly the same between Hoyt st and 59 st. only skips Spring st, 23 st, and 50 st but there are local express stops between these stations like West 4 st, 14 st, 34 st,42 st. The would only save you 1 minute when it leaves 59st the would arrive the station.

Interesting perspective. As for my '93 subway map, I'm considering placing it under lock and key, along with my '06 Brooklyn bus map.

Surprised no one mentioned this, On the Express stretch between Church avenue and Newkirk Plaza , the 160s can hit up to 53 mph before flying into the station. Not sure about the 68s but they can hit up the mid 40s in that section.

 

yeah, that's true. I remember on a G.O. train, it hit about 54 mph between Kings Hwy and Newkirk Plz.

A random thought:

Yesterday I acquired a June 1993 map showing the Broadway BMT side of the bridge closed, the to 168th Street, a blue , a <A>, to 21st Street-Queensbridge, to Forest Hills and Queens Plaza, the , and the Cortlandt Street station open. And that was all in one sentence.

If you're riding between Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets and 59 St-Columbus Circle uptown, then it's pointless to ride the .

 

But why? The 8th Avenue express is a lot faster than the .

The Manhattan Bridge should be renamed to the Timer Bridge. They have so many timers, you can do about 22 on there. I've also been on an R40 that went 55 on the W4-34 stretch.

Check this out, an interesting video aimed at those who don't know what the Emergency Brake should be used for:

Wow, I've seen the tracks on Google Earth and I always thought it would be fast, but I had no idea that it would be THAT fast.

 

Nobody says much of the southbound Lexington Av Express from 125 to 86 St. I know that n/b can reach 49 MPH, but this s/b R142A reaches 47-48, I think: (go to 4:45 for the fast part)

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Wrong video, man! This is the 00:27 one!

Yes, but I'm specifically referring to the n/b 4 Av express.

 

The 4 Avenue Express heading northbound is usually pretty fast, I'd make a rough average estimate of 47.6.

Actually, the R160s are designed for up to 55 mph. I think once I was on one that reached 56, but I don't recall the line or area.

Go PM him, or if you don't have that little envelope icon at the top of any page, I could always do it for you upon request.

I think they protect the crossover and the West End Line switch. TwoTimer works the , ask him.

Holy crap, I clicked on the link of Q23's signature and I get this:

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And it goes on.

I was once on an R160B that hit 52 mph on the stretch between Prospect Park and 7th Avenue.

Sickest thing I heard/saw today as I was walking on Jamaica near Crescent, a T/O rounds the entire curve entering Cypress Hills on the switch power notch settings alone. Never heard the first tone of Alstom's propulsion go on for so long... Wonder if the T/O was young... Pretty sure most old timers wouldn't have the patience for that...

I hate the R160A propulsion.WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR....who the hell could stand that for an hour in a tiny cab. I bet quite a few Eastern Division T/O's have invested in a pair of quality earplugs.

So it seems you all have interesting screen backgrounds. I used to have a pulling into Neck Road.

Ok guys, what is your computer background?

Mine is an R160 running on the Brighton Express at Neck Road.

Because of a police investigation, Union Square is impassable. The is unaffected, but must bypass the station.

 

2 Sections: Nevins Street-New Lots Avenue and Woodlawn to GC-42

Dyre Shuttle

125-Pelham

2 Sections: CI-Atlantic-Pacific and Astoria-TSQ

2 Sections: CI-Prospect Park and Astoria-TSQ

Via 6 Avenue

What's the point of a repeated signals? Why not just have that one signal on the left of the blind curve? Is there a rule or regulation stating there must always be a right-sided signal present?

 

The actual signal has to be placed at a specific point, let me explain.

Signals on the NYC subway are placed at track joints. The tracks themselves are electrified. When a train passes over an electrically insulated joint, it jumps the electricity onto the next sector of track, thus turning the signal red. The point of repeater signals is that the real signal has to be placed at the track joint, and a train opertator can't see the signal until almost atop of it, a spot where one cannot stop a train should the signal be red, leading to many train operators to being tripped and written up wrongly. The repeater signal is placed before the real signal and gives the train operator time to take appropriate actions for the signal.

More info:http://www.nycsubway.org/articles/signals_light.html

Does anybody ever notice how C/R's always put in the FIND program, take it out, put in just the route, and toy with the system for a little while at CI terminal?

I didn't mean that. Where the rollsign was supposed to be there was just glass. There wasn't that sign that's used. Just glass. I could tell because I saw the marking where it used to be. Maybe the rollsign tore and they took it out for repair and put the car back in service.

An R68A train has been going around with a car with no side rollsign. The train has 5038 in it.

I'm designing a new type of bridge in my engineering/lunchtime notebook.

Also, 5^th grade gets a senior trip to Adventureland on June 13! We go from 8:00 to 4:30.(Includes sitting in a boiling hot school bus in the middle of 495 Interstate for 1¹/₂ hours.)