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The 1 train St Nicholas shuttle has a crazy diverse set of buses this time around. Saw a Flatbush, GA, and MCH buses on it

Some of y’all are really destroying the reputation of other rail fans (to the point that the innocent have to hide this hobby now) https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpquuWwtVJU/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Friend just saw the R211A at W4 heading uptown

I’m confused. Is the R211 only doing a PM tour today? (The post on New York Railroads seems a bit sus, but someone on transit photos and videos says that the PM run is happening)

2 hours ago, U-BahnNYC said:

I mean, there are some things they just can't test without running passengers on a regularly scheduled service. There's only so much you can do running the train on empty tracks over and over again. 

This "lets get the 'kinks' ironed out" horse has been regurgitated about a million times on here and while I thoroughly understand the need to test, lets be real here, the  is probably the most worst run organization in the history of planet earth. I do not trust they have the competency to run thorough tests and prepare for everything so its almost guaranteed the R211 will have some minor issue once it enters regular service. The sooner it does that, the better. The "let's iron out the kinks" spiel is just another subtle cover up for an agency so utterly incapable of doing the most basic things you would expect them to do. 

The wasteful, horrible, inefficient corrupt money pit known as the would go bankrupt the very first day it stops receiving taxpayer handouts.

The MBTA would like to have a word with you

Grand central Madison opening Wednesday 

8086 was hijacked and crashed into a utility pole. Not too sure if this is a write-off since the roof might've taken some damage https://go.citizen.com/hdZd4aMetub

The R211 is currently doing simulated stop testing on the

24 minutes ago, Future ENY OP said:

Could be a deadhead.  Was it a unit from MJQ?

Couldn’t really tell because the car I was riding in was a far enough that I couldn’t really get the bus number

Not too sure if this is just a deadhead or a move to Brooklyn, but I saw a XDE40 on FDR Drive. Came in at around 23rd St and was headed towards exit 1

39 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

Um, unless I'm dreaming, I just saw 2 five car only R160 sets on the leaving Metropolitan...

Slightly tangential to subway random thoughts thread, but the 190th St A elevator replacement completion date is pushed back to November 2021. 
 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/511738808873800/permalink/4413336138714028/

What’s bus # 9999 on Bustime?

18 minutes ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:

These overshooting incidents have happened in the past with other car fleets.

 

The issue with the R179s isn’t CBTC auto brake, unlike the CBTC enabled trains. It’s that the brakes don’t work reliably 

Reportedly two people suffered a heart attack, including a B/O. 7 people injured

26 minutes ago, NBTA said:

So theres currently an XN60 hanging off of University and El Grant Highway..(no passengers on the bus, but 12 people got hurt, don't know how it happened).

I think it was a deadhead to 181 and the driver made a severe miscalculation on their turn onto Washington Bridge

Edit: turns out some other car crashed into the bus and the bus skidded into the cut

There is probably a school car of R32s on the N: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CH28fSonNsE/?igshid=tzum9b8wt0g1

edit: apparently it’s a movie car?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/432657521042383/permalink/473606316947503/ This is interesting. Might mean that the construction work for 190th St A is also accelerated

40 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

So if your still on a train at 12:50 AM and you still have 30 minutes left to get to your destination, does kick you off the train after 1 AM or do they let you ride until your stop?

They’ll let you stay on the train till it gets to the terminal. You can also transfer to those connecting shuttle trains (5, Lefferts A, R) past 1 (to connect with trains that have runs that start before 1 but end after 1)

On 10/6/2020 at 11:32 AM, darkstar8983 said:

and until the R211s get here (if necessary due to the COVID-related service reductions), the R32s and R46s can be temporarily "retired".

 

Cars would need to be moved around though to ensure no R46s or R32s are in service should the service cuts occur:

 - Would use the 130 R179 (10-car units) + 230 R160s from Jamaica

 - Discontinued

 - R179 (8-car units, half of which are from ENY)

 - R68

 - R160A-1 (and some R143s as necessary)

- R160A-1

- R68 + R160B

 - R68A (from the ) 

 -Discontinued

 - Discontinued

/  - R179 (4-car units from the  train fleet).

 

 

Yard moves:

All R179 (8-car units transferred from ENY to 207 St/Pitkin Yards) - the  fleet will be covered by the R160A-1 cars that would not need to be used on the  and due to service frequency reductions.

230 R160s from Jamaica to Pitkin (the units that were on loan from the  all summer to the )

60 R160s from Jamaica to Coney Island (concurrent with proposed frequency reductions to the and )

16 R68s from Concourse to Coney Island

(the latter two transfers can be coordinated based on Coney Island's needs)

Don’t think the  can use 4 car 60’ trains. Iirc back when the  used 4 car R32s post sandy, one set lost power over a third rail gap. Then the R46s replaced the R32s

Take this with a grain of salt (R32 on A): 

Did #22 got pulled from service? Tracker doesn’t see to be tracking #22

Front ad wrap is now Oatly again

38 minutes ago, beelinefan said:

The M8s also had issues and delays.  The 211s will also no doubt have bugs and other issues that will need to be worked out.

Also the WMATA 7K series. Had some faulty crimping that needed to be fixed.

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