ttcsubwayfan

It would be something for them to be excited about, if they understood that sentence... really, all they can understand is "train be slightly less busy."

But what I'm talking about is the railfans - they already see these damn things everywhere.

Lol it's just the typical obsession with "shiny new equipment," regardless of the fact that the parent design is more than a decade old lol.

That sounds about right!

As it is I find that most of the old shit is in Brooklyn. The emerging stereotypical hipsters love them.

Aren't most of the hipster neighborhoods around R160 lines anyway? Except of course the G.

Maybe so, but that doesn't mean they can't travel around

I rather drive between cities than take mass transit. Only time I really take mass transit is when I go into Manhattan.

I dont like the European style trains, I think the stuff we have looks better.

@foxie: I fully agree with you. But to each his own, I guess.

You can right-click on the mouse. Hold the "Control" key and click on the mouse.

@peacemak3r: I know, I know. Doesn't mean I can't vent about it, though

@ RTS CNG Command: Didn't know that, thanks! That should make using the computer a bit less problematic.

I have my Mac set (you can generally due this is settings) so that a two-finger click or tap is the same as right click...I find it a lot smoother than the occasionally broken right side of the PC mouse at work.

Teachers can't do anything to you, it's the office you gotta watch out for.

There's no such thing as attendance for me anymore...professors don't care.

A paycheck is a paycheck.

@theaveragejoe: True, it's not the worst location, but it's no New York. Oh well.

@R188: Unfortunately I'm on a killer time limit, so it's very unlikely that I'll get to look for those sets at all. Unfortunate, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. Would be worse if all trains had a RFW view on the Queens end, those things would be mocking me to no end. A more important priority, for me, is getting exterior shots, and I think I can do that at GC. I don...

I don't even think I can head over to Willets Point and photo the yard there, it's so out of the way from everything else I'm in search of. It is what it is.

ttcsubwayfan then I got increadibly lucky because two days in a row a different times of day i caught 1960 with a half cab.

Must've been an escaped mental patient. Or weed. Maybe he was on weed, that stuff makes people do some weird shhh.

There's this one video I saw that had a grown drunk man butt naked on the train showing his junk and everything. Scariest thing I ever saw.

No, this wasn't a mental patient... it was a student. I've been in classes with him, I thought he seemed like a normal guy, LOL

^ this

I think it may have to do with the fact that the 143s haven't left the L since 2008.

A subway car that's been around for several years is now on another line... Oooooo.... Ahhhh... *Sarcasm*

oh damn, sorry to hear. Hopefully you can get some of the good stuff down.

Well if it's sightseeing, you could just do some walking thru Central park and the major intersections on Broadway and it won't cost a dime other than if you need to travel by subway or bus. But in a good day you can do most of midtown, Lower Manhattan, and Central park in 2 days.

Well, the most expensive thing is actually getting there. Driving for 750 KM is expensive. Transit is not that expensive by comparison. But yes, I wish to see more of Central Park and whatnot.

Orions are decent, except for Orion IIIs, Orion VIs (with doors at the very back) and hybrid VIIs. I and V would definitely have to be Orion's best work, although those are not without fault either (such as the lack of stainless steel frames on the V prior to 2000.)

Well even though I am an RTS fan, I will admit the ex bl o5s are handling better Than i expected given the abuse they have faced from mta bus. Lol, as for the cng bus, well I still don't see why anyone would want to jump thru all that red tape to own one when there must be plenty of the diesel version...

RTS is alright, but TTC's are rather poor so I can't really comment on them. One of the TTC's Orion V series is also heavily abused on the busiest routes in the city, and they just keep on ticking. Only a single unit has been retired.

As for CNGs... my favorite series of TTC buses is 50 ex-CNG Vs. I think they're better as diesels, but that's just my personal opinion. Plus, they got the Cummins M11 - good stuff.

@ ttcsubwayfan, agreed.

the TV interviews people and they wind up talking about how they like the new Subway trains.

Well, there are a select few individuals who, for example, will notice if their home line is 'downgraded' (load of nonsense, really) from NTTs to R62As (one of the Lex. lines) but most members of the public don't know the difference between an R142 and an R62, and couldn't care less.

Good for you!

On Wednesday thru Friday I am going on a three day school trip, boy I'd like to get away from here for once.

Same here @B3, except for me It's the entire rat race called the internet. I think it does me more harm than good.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 is another big one. Some people will go for a higher class of site like Dropbox, but most will use a site like Uploadfiles.eu or Sharemods.com, and every time I open the download on one of those it also opens numerous spam pop ups.

I dare Adblock naysayers to browse those sites without ABP for even 10 minutes.

That is so true. I use Adblock, I can't imagine what manner of experience these sites would be without it. I mean, it's one thing to be stupid and click on a shady sounding link, and another to have it open for you.

They need a better bulk editor for christ sake.

I like the ability to sort by year taken, but I don't like how the new photostream looks... there's just too much dead white space for my liking, which they could easily fix by making the photo thumbnails bigger.

But what I hate the most is the new album page. It just looks so bad. The giant black rectangle with album info is unnecessary (and it annoys me how, every time I click on the album description, it automatically brings me into an editor). Why fix what isn't bro...

what isn't broken?

Well, how about that... it worked. I had no idea this existed, or when this "other" channel was created. Thanks!

No problem lol. Stupid google plus, smh.

You are like months late on this. Either way, when they made the shift, I never lost anything of mine with YouTube. But yes, if you deleted your Google+ account, the data linked to YouTube is deleted as well and it tells asks you two times before even deleting it.

That's good - at least you have some control over it. Another tip is do not decrease the aperture (in other words don't make the f-number higher). You're going to need all the light you can get. Also if you camera can zoom, keep in mind that by zooming in it will be forced to lower its aperture, meaning less light will go into your camera.

Do not use any of the semi auto modes (A, S, P, except for maybe shutter priority). Manual makes most sense. A high shutter speed is needed, but don't go to high. With a P&S, anywhere above 1/50th of a second is too dark. Their is not much room for adjustment because below 1/30th there will be blur.

Thanks!

Clap-clap-clap! Perfect!

Allow it to express your feelings!

Thanks!

Yeah, it was... not the most pleasant journey. Im not one of those people that can fall asleep easily wherever, so I was awake the whole time. Considering I was awoken at like 4 AM, that was not the most pleasant situtation. One journey was 4 and a half hours, the round trip was 9. I wish we had domestic flights from the town Im staying it, but we dont even have an airport.

Tough luck man.

Yeah. Ill have to come up with another plan next time I go there, because this journey is killer. Wish I had a car, the trip is a little under 3 hours that way.

have a fun trip!

Thanks!

Ah huh... That explains a lot. I have a colleague who takes off for almost a month each year, but even that is a big deal, so anything over a month is REALLY are here in the States.

It's raining here right now actually.

Thunderstorm is actually smacking us right now.

Oh... well, it was nicer earlier on, from what I've gathered in the shoutbox. Meanwhile, here we've had 3 days of rain. Today was quite nasty - I had a little puddle of water in my shoes when I returned. I suck at describing shit so y'all probably have no idea what type of weather I'm talking about.

They still looked damn hot with the gates... but they were necessary...

I'd be the first to agree with you but unfortunately you'll find that that is not an opinion shared by many. I maintain that their "as built" forms looked the best, though.

Is that the same reason why the Mods and 42s also received gates?

the slants needed the gates because it wasn't safe to pass b/w the ends of the cars. Obviously a person shouldn't be moving when the train is running, but 'it's for safety'.

people that "spam" likes are likely people that expect to boost their total amount of likes... I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine type of thing...

...and who's dante?

Dante is East New York.

thx.

Lol, yep. Dont know what was the point of installing the damn thing if it is never switched on.

At least they have air conditioning.

In Paris very few buses have it, even our newer model.

The excuse is that it is not environmentally friendly.

I always keep saying that a bus or train with air conditionning is more environmentally friendly than hundred of cars with air conditionning.

Im not sure how much weight the argument "at least they have air conditioning" holds, if they never turn it on in the first place. The experience would be the same with or without. In Bratislava, most of our vehicles do not have ac and I felt a lot more comfortable in them than in a coach bus, thanks to every hatch and window being opened.

Lmao... I used to take photos of garbage cans.

^ you aint seen nothin yet

@mtattrain: Traffic lights as well, I was interested in them yet knew practically nothing about them.

This has nothing to do with politics

Sorry to hear that for you, but 2013 is doing well for me!

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