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Also, you can only save UNSCHEDULED Overtime as OTO. If they assign you to an 11 hour job, you can't just get paid 8 hours and bank the other 3. I worked an RDO once in a while when I was on probation, but that was always voluntary when I had nothing better to do that weekend. Some of you are nuts and sign up for RDOs on a weekly basis right out of schoolcar. Just because you are working an RDO doesn't mean you are going to be left alone - your name is still going to be highlighted as probationary and the TSS's are still going to chase you down. In fact it seems like I got evaluated more on my RDO than during my regular work week!

Unless the C/R is paying attention and resyncs at 116 St, and then the proper announcements will play. Interestingly whenever the goes to/from Flatbush on weekends, it won't announce ANY transfers in either Manhattan or Brooklyn except at 125!

Well 1383 isn't even on the 4's strip map.......

Just don't listen to anything Donald said (here or in any other threads). He got banned for good reason. Strangely, I haven't seen him at work since he got banned, so maybe he moved on to the next agency to terrorize?

Are you sure it wasn't saying THIS IS 125 ST?

Holy crap we have spring switches here????

Yes, because that's where those 's are turning. It's really up to the C/R if he wants to unofficially end the trip at 125, or keep it in service to 1383, but the former is recommended since almost NOBODY on that train is going to want to be going to 1383 Does anyone know the last time that both the and were going to Dyre at the same time?? That's what's REALLY gonna make things interesting this weekend!

Yeah but this time there will be a train saying FLATBUSH!!!!!! Hmm I guess Pelham riders have a different mentality than Flushing riders. Over on the if a service disruption cuts the express service, many riders will get off the train and wait for the next express, even if it won't be coming for a good while......

Yeah....but this time the side signs will say FLATBUSH!

MNRR doesn't run the 3s on weekends. They've got plenty of life left so you'll keep on seeing them during the week.

Nope, I'm excited because one of my trips will get dropped. Also R142s on the Dyre!

Well there was that time that the clocks IDed a to Beverly Rd.....

That's right. If they need a to go and the last two arriving trains were 's, then just program it as a and turn off the strip map and it's good to go in 30 seconds. Can't do that with the 62s!

No, but we are in direct daily contact with the folk who DO make these decisions. Also, I'm still a C/R (at least for the next couple years....)

So the to Dyre GO will FINALLY be starting this Saturday. Anybody else excited????

Even if the MTA ever DID consider having the R62A's go to either the or , I think they learned from these "X to Flatbush" GO's that Flatbush just doesn't work as a two line terminal unless there is flexibility in sending ANY arriving train out on either route. And the and are different enough routes that rollsign changes would be required (not just one destination, but also the bullets), and there just isn't enough time for that. Once one train arrives, the other track immediately gets starting lights, even if it arrived a minute earlier. With the 62A's on the line, and with the Enrcon LEDs, the only sign changing that would have to be done is Parkchester or Pelham Bay Park on the upper destination, and that can easily be taken care of at the northern terminal by the platform crews (believe me, nobody except for a couple of YOU are going to care if a S/B train goes into service at Parkchester with Pelham Bay on the north sign, as long as it is returning to Pelham going north). Right now, Parkchester trains stay Parkchester trains all day, and a couple of them go to Pelham at the end of the evening rush (these are the all local Pelham runs that get mixed in with the Pelham express and the Parkchester layups) so it won't even be CONSTANT rollsign changes. Besides, nobody reads the rollsigns anyway. If the C/R is announcing that this train is going to Pelham, odds are at least SOME of the customers will listen.

Perhaps because I've heard from RTO management that this is going to happen??? Why are people so quick to assume that they WON'T be going to the ? Other than because they want to foam over the ideas of all the different rollsigns they'll get to photograph?

There aren't enough R62As to cover the entire & fleet......

Why does everybody keep questioning where Corona's fleet is going to go? It's going to be either Westchester or Mosholu, and Westchester is most likely.

Seniority within your own class makes a big difference. For me, it was the difference between working the for 4 days, and having to go to the twice a week in this current pick. Since one of my classmates ahead of me also wanted the , he got the last jobs left on that line instead.....and he'll continue to get every job that we both want as long as we're still both C/Rs! For everyone who starts the same day, your seniority rank is determined by your list #, which first comes from your exam score, and then is randomly generated. As for changing divisions, if there is a sudden shortage in one division, you may get drafted over, but that will happen right away since they do it to those with the lowest seniority. Otherwise, you have to stay in your division until you have enough seniority to pick a job in the other one. For T/O's that usually takes a couple years. The trend lately has been for A-Div crews to pick jobs sooner than B-Div. T/O's who started 2 years ago were able to pick a job in June 2012, while B-Div T/O's are STILL XX going into the December 2012 pick!

I'm NEVER sarcastic!

I don't care how big your group is as long as you DON'T INTERFERE WITH TRAIN SERVICE!

What, you mean the best part wasn't getting to be on a real life R110B?????

Wow, a R46 at Lefferts!!! I hope somebody got a photo of THAT! The photographer foamers travel in packs. One of them will hold the doors while the other one runs onto the catwalk to get a photo. That's when I get on my radio. They were doing it during the first to Flatbush GO in January at every single Nostrand Ave stop.......and of course police didn't respond until Franklin, and they got off at President to abuse the next train.

Nothing wrong with being a foamer, just keep it within the limits of the law. Don't be one of those dbs who holds the doors to get a photo or goes into the tunnel or roadbed, or gets your hands on keys/handles and decides to play with the layups at Ocean Parkway.