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If anyone is on the R62A 2074 is out right now currently at 33st toward flushing

Just rode that set myself I'm going to look out for other sets that have been testing do you have any idea of when the R62as are supposed to leave the ?

The Way its looking like before the summer...

No its back on the as of 2 weeks ago

Its back on the

*7746-7750

Hmmm still wondering why it left the and now on the

Just caught R142A 7750-7754 on the if I'm not mistaking that set is from the

At the time the MTA was deciding whether or not the would get the R142A's and at the time the was considered for them but instead they got the R62A's and I'm not exactly 100% sure but I believe it was to make Lexington Ave all NTT's at the time. Someone else probably knows the full story behind it can probably tell you better. The should have gotten them because they had trains from 1964/65 which were 20 years older than than the trains the was using.

the R142A's were considered for the but since there were clearance issues with the steinway tubes and also correct me if im wrong but someone here mentioned before that Corona wasn't equipped at the time to maintain NTTs so they ended up going to Westchester Yard instead Wich is why at the time the R62A's had to leave the till it was time for them to return back.

At the time the MTA was deciding whether or not the would get the R142A's and at the time the was considered for them but instead they got the R62A's and I'm not exactly 100% sure but I believe it was to make Lexington Ave all NTT's at the time. Someone else probably knows the full story behind it can probably tell you better. The should have gotten them because they had trains from 1964/65 which were 20 years older than than the trains the was using.

I doubt it though. The MTA figured out decades ago that train consists run their best when the propulsion packages are the same.

ehhh...that didn't stop them really from doing those R32/R38 mixes as well as R40M/R42 ones

Real question is, could they pair the 179's with 160's as a trainset...

Just gotta wait for them to go in service in the near future and find out....

My bad I'm so tired I didn't even realize that

hmmmm wowwwww.....

R62A fleet is a scrambled mess already. (65) 1800's on the while (35) are on the , 1926 is on the while 1927-1930 is on the 42nd St Shuttle. 1934 on the while 1931-1935 on the .

 

Point is that once the R62As are off the completely, they could rearrange and reorganize the fleet in numerical order which would require converting some of the singles to full width (not all cause some are used as refuge trains during the summer.)

Iv pointed out that R62A's 1651-2000 should be on the and 2001-2475 on the  (excluding the 10 cars for the shuttle). I have been noticing lately alot that Westchester Yard have been removing some of the Led lights off on their R62A's , It seams like eventually that they will all come off if this is the case...

Are they finally gonna send em back to the and be smart to send 1861-1865 wich originally came from Westchester ?

The strip maps are getting removed from the cars 2221-2225

Why? I was thinking it'll be more logical to keep all the R142A's confined to 1 yard. in place of Displaced Jerome's R142A's will be R62A's. It's bad enough the has a bad reputation and bad maintainence history so dumping older cars BACK on the is adding insult to injury. At least with more NTTs on the it wont look so bad... Hell, even riders are starting to realize that they're getting "6 train cars" as their upgrade.

Oh well it doesn't matter what we think it was logical for the R62As to return to the . I was saying for future reference if a swap happened there would be no NTT on the since westchester have enough R62As for service. If you think about it the used less trains then the

All of Jerome's R142A's should be sent to Westchester and leave the exclusively R142 and R62A.

You do notice that Weschtester Yard have enough R62A's for the by itself right ? ,So if a swap ever happened between the and  there would be no NTT's on the .

So the R44's and R46's used different body's which is why the R46 dosen't have that metal stripe like the R44's did?

 

I honestly don't know how to phrase this question

Also same as the redbirds , that's why they retired in 2003 , the acid baths used to remove the graffiti in the 1970s and early 80s and the very heavy service on the , , , and even took a toll on them.

I did see 7531-7535 few days ago on the  I believe with 7606-7610

 

 

R62As on the : 1651-1825, 1831-1840, 1961-2025, 2031-2040, 2051-2055, 2061-2065, 2086-2090, 2096-2100, 2111-2115, 2126-2130, 2136-2140, 2156-2160, 2221-2225, 2306-2310, 2326-2330, 2346-2350 (31 trains)

Im Still wondering if 2141-2145 are going back to the or will they be smart and send it to the in exchange for either 1861-1865 or 1891-1895 

Also, those suppose it R62As permanent loaners dont have the LED lights. I though the whole point was to tranfer the R62As that has those lights to the line since it has the express/local distinction.

 

The red paint at the bottom of the doors could mean anything. It just seems silly knowing more R62As are coming from the and all of a sudden the loaners are permanent to Westchester. Hell theres a few R142A sets that were originally from Westchester running on the .

Um no , the reason that the R62A's returned to the is because the R142A's got taken out of the to go to Flushing so they had to go somewhere. Those sets originally from Westchester are staying on the as well , Iv been noticing the R62A's on the with the messed up Leds instead of fixing them up Westchester have been removing them completely. 

Are there any R62As from the to the since 7501-7530 isn't at Westchester?

Yeah R62A's 2111-2115 is now on the

Everybody does it Daniel. Think about it,

 

How do programs get into the R142/R142A's in the first place? They are first made in a hard drive, and then downloaded into the R142's.

 

So reverse the process, that way you would be saving space and not confuse passengers.

Some of the things you say make me laugh lol

Don't get why they have such a track record with delays, as the London Underground order for the new S Stock was built by Bombardier on time I think..

Also car assignments are so outdated , best example the sight claims R42s still run on the  

That is not even the point. The product is still late, things like that hurt your reputation a lot especially if you are dealing with a big company like the MTA which is the biggest in the country. I'm surprised the R32s lasted this long without falling over there MDBF is lower than the R42s now.

It Goes to Show How Good Budd Really built the R32s back in 1963 , these new company's are no where near as good as like Budd , St Louis were It's sad Bombardier have always been known to deliver their products late dating back to the R62As.

Moving on, are the R62A's operating the shuttle between 34 and 42 or is it R188's?

When it comes to G.O's on the Don't expect any R62A's to be out , once in a blue you will have that rare occasion where one set will come out for a few trips.

They should. But I guess the notion of it is "if it looks like a 62A, then its a 62A."

 

I've already seen a couple of times the 18xx coupled together on the .

Iv said this before and ill say it again , what they need to do is have the keep R62A's 1651-2000 and the keeps 2001-2475 , excluding the single sets that the shuttle has.

How many sets of R62A does the have because I see so many of them on the at once? That isn't the case with the R142A's on the . The is borrowing R62A's from the

Since I ride the to go to work , There's times Iv seen 7 or 8 sets of R62A's back to back before finally seeing an R142A , iv noticed lately for some reason the dispacher for the lays up most of the R142A's after the am and pm rush , As for the it seems like Corona does that on purpose so that after rush hour they can lay them up and send em back to yard,

You would think that but lately they've been using more of the R142As and whatever's left to boot. They tend to always put the R62As first to the storage yard after every peak service on the . As for the R62As on the , I suggest cherishing them on the while it last, for those who like them on the line because maybe by this time next year R62As would be a hard find on the Flushing line.

My Commutes on the are normally R62A's , I catch them usually early in the morning and even after the PM rush,