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Snowblock

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  1. No, the random thoughts thread is being bombarded with R143 talk. This needs its own thread.
  2. Wow, 6 pages worth of posts on the R143 in the last 12 hours. I guess I shouldn't have been so surprised when a CCY R68 ran on the on Monday and the conquestors got so excited that they SET THE TRAIN ON FIRE (or last year when an R32 was on the and they decided to steal the rollsign box from THAT train).....I can only imagine what kind of damage is being done to that R143 set right now.... A wrong lineup isn't considered a wrong lineup until it is accepted by the train operator. There's a reason that home signals have different aspects depending on the direction of the switch.
  3. ^^^^ True. They'd rather have the crew take the train out of service than touch ANY circuit breakers on a NTT. On the older trains, conductors and train operators are trained in circuit breaker troubleshooting, but are forbidden from touching the NTT circuit breakers for ANY reason.
  4. Fixing the Nassau connection is about 9998 on the list of things that need to be done, especially now that no revenue service uses that tunnel. Unless an extra billion dollars magically appears in the budget, it will continue to sit OOS indefinitely.
  5. NOBODY can use the Montague-Nassau connection. It's gone and it probably won't be coming back. Keep dreaming. And get that fantasy crap out of this thread.
  6. The communications desk at the Rail Control Center. Possibly the most hated and ridiculed people on the entire internet.
  7. 145 can barely turn the on a regular day. You're all being unrealistic about how many trains these terminals can turn, especially on the latter end of rush hour where every other arrival at 207 is a layup to the yard (which means that one of the tracks is going to be occupied for at least 5 minutes while the train is cleaned out) and those uptown were supposed to stay in service to Bedford so they could layup in Concourse. You can't send two services to 207 and two services to 168 and not back up the entire CPW line. Remember that at 168 ALL trains must be cleaned out before they can relay. Also remember that when a train gets sent to a foreign terminal there is no crew to take that train back out, and the crew who brought it in is not gonna want to do an entire extra trip without getting a break first ESPECIALLY if they're an AM crew who was supposed to finish uptown. And yes Daniel, we did send some to 168 or Dyckman, but they went out of service at 125 and continued lite there. I'd love to know where all these customers trying to get to the Bronx went though. That's the one aspect I didn't get to see last night. Nevermind, I just worked through this whole incident last night, I don't know half about running a railroad as the members of this forum do......
  8. York and Lafayette towers aren't manned except in GOs so trains CAN NOT be turned there during unplanned service changes. As for the incident tonight, there were WAY too many trains on the road to start turning all B and D service at 145/168.
  9. Were they arrested?? They should take ALL of the SBS's off. They're really getting into Silver Lie territory, and at least THAT has in-system free transfers!
  10. Are you factoring in the time you're going to lose when the Coney Island-Brighton Express has to sit at Brighton Beach while the local on A3/4 crosses in front of it to A2, and then waiting for the train to clear the circuit and THEN waiting for the lineup to A4 gets established? Ain't gonna be a 40 minute trip that way.
  11. It's a moot point since the ONLY place we'll ever see the R32's run from this point forward are the and , but the 32's and 42's are banned from running on the following lines: Try to figure out something that these lines have in common for your answer why.
  12. The bulletin is out. R32's on the are here to stay until FURTHER NOTICE.
  13. Holy crap. I'm not reading through 8 pages of people trying ANY which way to justify the R32's showing up anywhere other than on the . #1 The subway is not your playground. We don't put trains on certain lines just so YOU can ride something different. We put trains on lines based on yards and what sort of equipment is NEEDED on certain lines. #2 The runs OPTO service on weekends and nights. This alone will prevent anything except the R160 from running there at ALL times. #3 207 Yard is now equipped to handle NTTs. The R160's sent over from ENY are here to stay until the 179s start replacing the 32s. #4 Get in your photos/rides on the R32 NOW. It's going to go away very soon, and will most likely be replaced by an extra 68/68A from Concourse. No, there will NOT be an R160 or R42 or R44 set running on the .
  14. There's now only one track on 9th Ave lower. The two side tracks have reenforced pillars to hold up the station.
  15. Yes, there WERE some downtown and sent via the from W4 to Jay on Sat afternoon due to a condition at Chambers, however they all returned to their regular route entering Jay. Furthermore, Kings Highway CAN'T be used as a terminal on weekends because the tower isn't staffed. If this train continued down the line, it would have been turned at Church, Ave X or Stillwell, and there is no record of any train getting turned at any of those places on Sat. Are you still saying that the MTA website claimed that "Very Limited trains are running via the line to Kings Highway" or did you just make that up?
  16. This was on the MTA website? are running 15 minute headways this weekend, so that's what, one an hour via Rutgers/Culver? Must have happened when I was at lunch, because I didn't hear about ANY getting sent that way tonight.
  17. The word I've been hearing from the 207 yardmasters (who themselves don't know the whole story, but this is what they've been hearing) is that we'll do one more swap this summer, and then 207 Yard is going to be getting the proper resources to maintain the 160's (as well as getting ready for the similar 179's) and any 160's sent over here will stay year round.
  18. Refering to that gang by name is just giving them more brand recognition. Don't give these scumbags what they want!
  19. Because the person filming it was the vandal scum who CAUSED it. Who goes railfanning at 8:15AM on a Thursday and just coincidentally catches something like that unless they already knew what was happening?
  20. The vandal who filmed this is obviously the same one who pulled the box off of an A train and threw it down there. Youtube and Facebook are law enforcement's best friend. I hope he goes does for terrorism charges for trying to blow up a train this time so that they'll throw away the key.
  21. Nope, is 100% R160 I haven't seen any R160s on the in a while (or any 68s on the ), but they aren't PROHIBITED from operating there.
  22. Aww hell yeah. Wallyhorse, I DARE you to mention the pols one more time. It's in the north end of 207 yard and will feed spare parts for the other sets.
  23. Why does the need to be 600 ft when most of the customers just ride in the south car as it is?
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