Snowblock

Escalator (125) & elevator (137)

Huh? No, trains stay on tk 4 and then cross over north of 137 to the middle track, change ends and cross to tk 1 to go back south. 125 and 137 station are both closed due to e&e work but the trains are still doing long relays through there

Not when you have a disabled train over a switch going from local to express track....

When was this? Last I knew, Rockefeller interlocking was still controlled from Rockefeller Tower (and hasn't been on automatic mode since the long term GO on 63rd St started). 34 Master Tower has no control whatsoever of that area. You'd be amazed how many workers (all the way up to desk superintendents) think that 34 Master also controls Broadway Lafayette and 2nd Ave interlockings as well....

Drafts are online for the public now - https://new.mta.info/agency/long-island-rail-road/lirr-to-grand-central/schedules

I already laid out the plans (based on a draft of the October 2022 timetable I've looked at) in another thread, but just to repeat: Brooklyn-Jamaica shuttles every 20 minutes all day. One of those per hour continues on to/from West Hempstead. Yes, that includes St Albans but not Valley Stream. Trains that currently go to Brooklyn (Far Rock, Hempstead, some Long Beach) will all go to Grand Central. Lines that exclusively serve Penn will have service split between Penn and Grand Central. Port Washington line, for example, will have 2 trains an hour, one to Penn and one to GC. M3's and C3's CAN NOT run to Grand Central due to signal and clearance issues, so don't expect any changes on the diesel-electric runs. There is now enough service being provided at Jamaica/Woodside that scheduled connections are a thing of the past. Wait at the station for a couple minutes and you'll get the destination you want.

Trains every 20 minutes like clockwork between Jamaica and Flatbush all day (2 shuttles and 1 West Hempstead train every hour). Doesn't look like any attempt will be made to make connections with NYP/GCT/HPA trains. All of those other through trains that used to go to Flatbush will now go to Grand Central.

Draft for the new LIRR schedules for October.

Don't worry, when they start running trains to Grand Central (alternating between there and Penn every half hour during offpeak), they'll be making all of the stops again.

Can we arrest the murderer of T/O Gobles before we worry about the damn equipment? It's evidence in an ongoing investigation!

RIP to Track3 on the 42 St shuttle. Its final run was the 2358 Times Square to Grand Central for 11/6/20, car #s 1930-1946-1953-1951. This train is now getting transfered to Livonia Yard and the new platform at the Time Square end will be built over the tk 3 roadbed. Aside from some work trains over the next couple weeks, track 3 is now a piece of history, going back to 1904 when it was the uptown express track.

Yes and Yes. Two reasons. #1 so that all trains still on the road can be cleaned in terminals without interference of those who refuse to leave the train preventing the cleaners access to the entire train, which leads to #2 which is to have legal standing to get the homeless out of the system (since NYPD didn't want to enforce the "subway service is for essential employees only getting to and from work) they can now enforce the "the system is closed and you are now trespassing" without any ACLU's crying that they're targetting the homeless specifically).

You give someone a choice - ride the express train but the likelihood of picking up the virus is there, or ride the local and be absolutely safe but it might be a couple more minutes, and that tells you why the and are the packed ones. I can only imagine how the Flushing riders are dealing with no express whatsoever.

You can speculate on what weekend service will be, but things change day to day (and the MTA website is NOT doing a good job updating things anymore) and it's all based on crew availability. I can tell you for a fact that the service headways listed on mta.info on Tuesday and Wednesday this week were completely different than what was actually running, and as we transition from AM to PM crews, it could get much better or much worse for the rest of the day. Remember that there are many crews who work the during the week and might be on the or on the weekend. The had by far the worst turn out for crews this week, but they may do better over the weekend. Also less senior people work Sat/Sun and many of them don't have an assigned job or location. Also there might be enough senior people looking for overtime to completely fill these weekend jobs. My speculation is that most lines will be running their regular weekend schedule.

My random thought for the night: defying my best instincts, I've actually been reading fantasy plans on this forum the last couple days (since there really isn't anything better to do with my free time lately than screw around online). And the impression I keep getting is that many of you have absolutely no consideration for the train crews and what their job entails when they are off the train. There are certain places that can not be used as terminals. Just because you can turn a train there doesn't mean you should. Cutting back runs so that both destinations are locations that don't have crew facilities (even great men have to pee sometimes!) is cruel and inhumane. And in these times of social distancing and the city refusing to do anything about assaults against employees, how can you have an entire line worth of crews have to stand around on the platform, having no place to even sit down or eat their lunch, until they are ready to make their next trip? Even when non-terminal locations are used as temporary terminals for a GO, it will always return to a regular location and their time at that temporary terminal will be at best to drop back to the second train arriving. This is exactly why 205 on the is not a terminal and the crew change is done at Bedford Park. Likewise when the goes to 86 St (or the to Ave X for that matter), the crew change is at Kings Highway which is equipped to handle multiple crews (but NOT Kings Highway on the which I know is a miserable place for everyone involved to end at).