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  1. 22 hours ago, darkstar8983 said:

    It dumps off passengers at 116 St then relays at 137 St (likely south of it right before the station, then reverse moves to the center track, then reversed back to the downtown track without fully platforming at 137 St), then back down to 116 St to Pick up passengers.

    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 

  2. On 11/20/2023 at 7:08 PM, Kamen Rider said:

    Admittedly that sign was put there before we consolidated the IND in midtown to 34 Master.

    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....

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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. 

  6. 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).

  7. 5 hours ago, NewFlyer 230 said:

    I find it interesting how the (E) and (F) are running every 20 minutes while the local (M) and (R)  trains are running every 15. The local trains along Queens Blvd are nearly empty while the express trains are running with SRO or half full cars. It’s impossible to practice social distancing on the express trains. 

    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 (E) and (F) are the packed ones. I can only imagine how the Flushing riders are dealing with no express whatsoever.

  8. 2 hours ago, darkstar8983 said:

    Now that the next weekend under the "Essential travel plan" is coming up, the headways will likely be stretched even thinner (to about a standard 30-45 minute wait between scheduled trains, like it was seen last weekend).

    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 (2) during the week and might be on the (1) or (7)  on the weekend. The (2) 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.

  9. 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 (D) is not a terminal and the crew change is done at Bedford Park. Likewise when the (N) goes to 86 St (or the (F) 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 (Q) which I know is a miserable place for everyone involved to end at).

  10. You are talking about two extra stops which takes less than 5 minutes. The crews would also be able to use a real crew room where more than one person can use the bathroom at a time, as well as a real dispatcher's office with a computer. Also trains at Brighton Beach don't have to relay. This is the third time today where I've responded to a fantasy GO where the author isn't taking relaying time into consideration. You know with GO's like this the road T/O is gonna have to relay one end of the train. So they're gonna be on the train even longer than if you just let them continue to Brighton Beach.

  11. See above. MIght I also add that in the time it would take to relay the (1) at 215, it could have completed the trip up to 242. So once again I ask WHY would you want it to end at 215 and force essential employees commuting home to take 2 buses?

  12. 15 minutes ago, Jova42R said:

    Couldn't they run it 215-Atlantic and say take the :bus_bullet_bx7: to :bus_bullet_bx9: for 242? (or run a special bus from 215-242?

    No. The Bx7 stops running at 1am and the Bx9 doesn't stop at 215. They're already scrambling to get the shuttle buses on the Lenox Ave line covered. And why on earth would you want to make 215, a location with no crew facilities and not even a dispatcher's office, a terminal?

  13. 10 hours ago, Collin said:

    I've read that there are harsh consequences for tripping a timer, up to and including termination.  I don't get the impression there are consequences for running frequently behind schedule.  If that is the case, for as long as it is, it will be hard to keep trains on schedule.  I totally agree that the crews (and by extension customers) would benefit from better infrastructure, better training, and a more nurturing supervisory environment.  

    Well I hit a timer my first day working the (1) line (which also happens to be the most overrun signal on that line) and I'm still working here. Since I was still on probation it was treated as a learning experience, along with a "now don't do it again!" warning.

    There are 100 different reasons for being late. Pick one and you're fine.

  14. On 3/28/2020 at 6:12 PM, Lawrence St said:

    R142's cant be arranged in less or more then 5 cars. Each car in one five set has a different system for each part of the train.

    False. R142's can run in 4 to 6 car units.

    The middle car in a 5 car unit doesn't actually provide anything to another car. It's always the B car next to the A car.

    When the C cars were ordered for the R188s, these were lighter cars missing a number of parts for the "A-B pairing". With those cars, they actually pass through on both ends so that the A and B cars between them communicate. This is why the C car is always found between an A and B car in a unit, and once again the B car in the middle of a unit don't marry with any other cars (as to the question of why they didn't just have two C cars on the new orders, my best guess is consistency with the R142A's which were converted?)

  15. In case you've been living under a rock for the last week, there was a really bad fire at 110-Lenox. With this GO, there can't be service running on the Lenox Ave line so that the station can be repaired with unhindered track access. As I stated above, there are not enough midnight (3) crews to run 137-New Lots on a reasonable headway and at this time we're having enough trouble filling regular jobs, let alone create GO jobs. So (3) gets suspended, the (2) runs down the east side to Flatbush and that leaves the (1) as the sole West Side service on the midnights, as well as the only service who can make the Park Place-Atlantic run. The M55 is already free, so can be used to go Chambers to South Ferry (and no, there's no work being done on that portion). Due to lack of midnight crews and no GO crews being hired, this 242-Atlantic service will run at a minimum of every 30 minutes.

  16. Over the weekend the (3) was running 60 minute headways between 137 and New Lots on the midnight. All they had available were the 6 shuttle crews that are normally out of 148 to 42.

    Since the (2) was running down the east side, that meant 60 minutes between trains at Park Place-Hoyt.

  17. On 3/26/2020 at 2:13 PM, Jova42R said:

    Some (F) trains run from Jamaica-179 St to Carroll St, the last stop

    (G) trains run from Court Sq to Carroll St, the last stop

    I see two problems here. First, Carroll isn't a terminal and you can't turn trains there. You need to drop them out at Bergen, run south of the station  to the reverse marker(can't go all the way to Carroll and back) change ends and come back north to Bergen. Secondly, there is no way you are going to be able to turn both (F) and (G) trains making that move unless each line is running on 20 minute or greater headways. A better idea would be to end the (F) at Jay and use Bergen lower to turn them.

    Lastly, why are you calling Church-Coney Island service the (V) when it's actually an (F) running in two sections?

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