Jsunflyguy

Lots of flat wheels means not enough cars in service to make the sets.

The scope includes Huntington, a place with 3rd rail. Wouldn't get too excited

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.

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.

I don't know what reconfiguration you guys are referring to. Jamaica has been fundamentally the same since WW1.

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.

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.

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.

A conductor told you directly that a train being them being short turned entitled them to a penalty claim?

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

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.

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.

It used to be trained 666, but someone didn't like the number so it was changed to the next available one.

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.

Yes, its almost like if a large group of people in an organization behave in a certain way it's irrational to view it as an individual performance issue.

That's because they haven't The notice to cross honor wasn't posted until the weekend before it went into effect for the , I just looked now and there is no history of such a notice for the , in fact I have no idea what you're talking about. Typically for short term outages the stationmaster will inform the conductor as they are approaching Jamaica or leaving the western terminal. If you are in a car being serviced by a regular collector it is unlikely they were monitoring the radio to hear this and may not be aware until they see the conductor, if they ever make contact. But the company doesn't pay enough for employees to develop telepathy, they have to actually give the information.

This is no different than any other train to Barclays, Forest Hills or MSG.

Is it really extra time if its the amount necessary to perform the work required?

The conductor collects fares and if people are slow or try to drag it out paying on purpose some Conductors will wait on them in a game of chicken. There's also the matter of people being allowed to sit at the door position which means crews have to wait for these people to vacate before the doors can be opened.

The person was struck at Flushing so there is nowhere else for the trains to turn from the NY end that won't energize third rail and endanger the people who are trying to clear the problem.

I'm saying whether or not to throw anything out, I don't plan on evaluating it deeply enough to conclude that. I am saying it likely heralds other accuracies. For example a few trains earlier train 17 departs PGE at 1740 and is followed by 73 a mere 2 minutes later into a manual block section. But again this isn't possible, PD-Y is a manual block thus only one train can be in that section. The manual block signal is also next to a crossing so it is typical to hold in the station until the route is available to avoid blocking the crossings so likely you wouldn't leave Patchogue until ~1745, which is the closest interval in the current schedule. Depending on whether the train ahead is a local the following train may even see an Approach requiring a 50% speed reduction so the following interval between locals can be 8 or 9 minutes. The problem is that schedule writing is like the 5pt question on the Math B regents, once you get that first input wrong all the predicated times become wrong, and based on how tight he's using certain stations/junctions, it breaks the schedule (73 is late, it delays connection 181 which interferes with another train etc). Also I do want to not my official objection to renaming Nostrand Ave as Crown heights, lol.

I've been jumping around, I'm going to suppress my groan at the methodology for determining the schedule padding which makes evaluates the GPS arrival time vs the scheduled departure time. As far as the sample schedule I think the RR should implement different service strategies for Babylon and Montauk, though a lot of things occur in these sample schedules that ignore practical operational constraints. Things like using dual modes as Jamaica Penn shuttles including train 1395 as a Penn shuttle (which would require locking out a route in Hall for several minutes due to how interlocking is laid out, and then having the train sit in Penn at the platform for 35 minutes, a total blunder. Even the Cannonball is only allotted 15 minutes. Then there's some weirdness about train 85/86 turning at Sayville in between other traffic and being followed at a 5 minute interval, which impossible (you can google map and apply some basic known rules to figure out why this doesn't work). Stuff like that makes me wonder if the other proposed changes are even possible or if other such interactions are missed/not considered properly.

"The help" and other people who would rather escape the hampton crowd that use the train as long distance travel. The reciprocal train 2709 on Friday is also jam packed with people leaving the hamptons in advance of the weekend crowds.

That area was surveyed by the RR and doesn't fit trains without demolishing homes. Also having trains cross over to the yard in 3rd rail gaps on one of the biggest grades in the system is begging for an operational issue. May as well run the extra 5 minutes to Great Neck and get your money's worth out of the crew.