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  1. Lots of flat wheels means not enough cars in service to make the sets.
  2. The scope includes Huntington, a place with 3rd rail. Wouldn't get too excited
  3. I'm not sure which track you are referring to but the Acela usually runs through BOS-DC so will be on the mainline often, if you meant using the tracks LI typically uses there was a disabled Amtrak train disrupting the normal flow. Elsewise the Acela does use Line 4 during inspections in the other tubes.
  4. The yard is on a sharp curve which limits speed and the subgrade is a sand bar so the lower speed is to keep track from shifting.
  5. I don't know what reconfiguration you guys are referring to. Jamaica has been fundamentally the same since WW1.
  6. The older PIS was implemented prior to GPS being common. The newer color ones ate fairly accurate. Though if a minute or two raises your ire it wont matter where you look. Another thing to keep in mind is the advertised times are *departure* times. So the RR isnt trying to necessarily depict when the train will arrive.
  7. The old PIS Are a little behind due to the information being predicated on the last time the train was clocked at a major location. So if a train makes up time that won't be detected. The newer ones have slightly more data streams but a similar quirk exists.
  8. Oooor in an alternate universe, train 1413 was added after the public media was 'printed' in response to public complaints. Just never got updated due to it happening well after the schedule was published and paper schedules being deemphasized.
  9. A conductor told you directly that a train being them being short turned entitled them to a penalty claim?
  10. If its something you would read in NYPost reconsider if its believable. None of those things pay anything. The most you could do is get 5 minutes for free and if that was a pattern then theyd be downloading your train or sending a plain clothes manager. Thats assuming you dont have a deadhead to catch or that youd even want to bother filling out the form for the extra....$5
  11. You would get OT beyond your finish time, anything beyond 5 minutes has to be explained in a report. And sometimes claims for less than 5 minutes are hit or miss. An AM crew operating an AM train is obviously nowhere near finishing their shift so you're just wasting your own time.
  12. Ah yes, the very specific baseless speculation. 1611 and 1413 are operated by AM crews, so they don't even stand to make overtime. And good luck getting a 3 minute overtime claim paid. 1611 is always late because Jamaica is scheduled for 1 minute dwell times instead of the traditional 2, so the surplus time stacks until it spills over and forces track changes...causing more delays. Couple that with the 1-stop local policy and you have trains that stay in conflict for a long time. Usually the first ripple is as early as 6am by the time 1611 is rolling through, it's averaging 5 minutes which is just enough time for every train to start bumping into the next one. Which is basically irrecoverable due to the feedback loops.
  13. It used to be trained 666, but someone didn't like the number so it was changed to the next available one.
  14. Trains like 1455 are often delayed during rush by trains coming in East on 1, trains with cross platforms on 5 and 4 are often backwards and therefore in conflict. To say nothing of the eastbound Hempstead and Long Beach/Babylon trains that have been in conflict for the better part of a generation, all occurring in Jay.
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