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10 hours ago, Around the Horn said:

That's likely temporary since Kingsbridge is missing portions of its original allotment

I don’t think it’s temporary. I think the MTA doesn’t really care about the fleet number as much as we do on the forum. I think someone said it before that they just want to push the NG to Bus Co. so they can retire they’re OG. And I don’t see the reason to shift buses around because of the fleet numbers. A depot has the exact number of buses they’re suppose to have. They’re probs my going to leave it that way. Pushing everything is computerized 

44 minutes ago, MTABusTransitFanner said:

Uhhhh are u sure about those 9800s going to Kingsbridge? those are for Manhattanville. Unless u made a mistake and thought those were for Kingsbridge.

Those are mostly likely to finish up the allotments of each depot. They did this with the last XD order just gave XDs to a depot and give them they’re assigned allotment 

When the MTA getting $6 Billion funding , will they be enough for the first & second option for the R211

15 hours ago, Future ENY OP said:

4550, 4551 and 4555 ENY to JFK (To be assigned). Buses are currently at GA CMF in prep for move to JFK. 

Keep a look out for more XDE on ENY routes !!

Any updates with 8th Avenue Line CBTC

On 12/14/2021 at 12:47 PM, Mpn4179 said:

Actually the 4700’s came in 2013, so they will be 12 years in 2025. The LFSA’s (5770-5986, 5252-5298, 5300-5363) came before them. They’ll be 12 years by 2024.

Those 4700 at UP seem to be in bad shape. So far the between and equal quality of 40ft & 60fts of XDs on the B1

10 hours ago, 1train2255railfan said:

9416-99 have been confirmed to be part of the order, but have not been delivered yet. 

Cool. Is Charleston getting a piece of the Electric- Hybrid pie ?  (Rumor to see if you guys have heard about it) 

1 hour ago, Calvin said:

9535 is on its way to Grand Av Depot 

Have the options for the XDE40s been exercised ?!?

Is Meredith really a bus depot as in like does it’s own Maintenance and have building like the other depot, or it’s really like a storage for buses ?

With the  headed to Jamaica, does Coney Island spare factor increase ? 

13 hours ago, R32 3838 said:

The uses about 25 trainsets with the using 29 trainsets. That's 540 cars all together. There's 630 R160A-2's all together. Concourse would have a 90 car spare factor. And with CBTC, it would require a higher spare factor anyway. This would be for fleet uniformity as much as I would rather the get the 405 R211's while the could have all the 260 Siemens R160's with a set or two of R211's.

 

 

But isn’t going 8th CBTC different from QB CBTC ? On one of these thread , can’t remember 8th Ave is going to only work with the R211 & R179 that why Jamaica is getting them to for  and possible  because the  is always rerouted on 8th Ave. So it make sense to give R211 to Concourse

On 11/2/2021 at 2:01 PM, Cait Sith said:

9515 officially at ENY.

Will 9500-09 from Grand head over the ENY as well or those are just the prototypes ? 

9 hours ago, Fan Railer said:

I don't see why not.

I meant is it doing that currently lol sorry should’ve word it better

1 hour ago, Fan Railer said:

The test train making its normal run to the test track and back today:

 

Does it has to do the normal 500 miles test part like the other NTT in the past ? 

There are rumors (or might not be ) but it’s word being thrown around that the  is going to Concourse ? Can anyone confirm ? 

On 10/23/2021 at 9:30 PM, darkstar8983 said:

I guess 9883-9892 was transferred (or getting transferred over the weekend) (even though it ran on the last night)

The last of the R160s at Coney Island are they going to Jamaica ? 

19 minutes ago, Future ENY OP said:

Highway Patrol pullover or mechanical issue?  Because if it’s the first one that is unusual.  

I’m uncertain was driving at the time but there was highway patrol there

2289 out of Charleston pull over on the SI Expressway 

17 minutes ago, Cait Sith said:

Yes and no.

Operations wise, MTA Bus gets funding by both the city and the state, whereas NYCT is primarily from the state AFAIK. A portion of MTA Bus orders are also federally funded, so buses that are federally funded legally cannot be swapped between MTA Bus and NYCT.

That explains Why MTA get NYCT leftovers

5 minutes ago, Cait Sith said:

They are different.

MTA Bus is comprised of all of the former private line operators. Different contracts and such as well.
NYCT is the regular stuff that you know of(buses labeled New York City Bus). Comprised of both MaBSTOA & MTA operations.

So even funding is different ? 

11 minutes ago, Snorunts said:

MTA BUS ➡️ NYCT

But what the difference isn’t MTA Bus & NYCT the same. I always wanted to know if they’re the same or different ?!?!

3 hours ago, darkstar8983 said:

But again you’re missing the point. Broadway also needs its cars CBTC compatible because of potential reroutes to the 6 Av Line, which car classes  are going to be restricted to NTT cars. The R211 order needs to be increased to outright replace EVERY non NTT car for this to work

But don’t every NTT has CBTC bypass mode 

1 hour ago, trainfan22 said:

They are functional. The chronic dead motor issue is the only thing really wrong with the CI R46s. They are not outright breaking down in the masses, theres no factual data saying that. Modern day railfans are so soft complaining about the R46s in their current state, the SMEEs prior to GOH were most likely a lot worse and covered in graffiti to boot. 

 

From a passenger prospective, only thing really wrong with the R46 is the weak A/C, but at least they not outright crapping out like the A/C on the R62As do for example. But the tech trains in general are much better than the older cars when it comes to the HVAC. 

 

So basically it’s just Father Time. Every train age and bound to have issues. Someone on the forum says that Jamaica knew how to handle the R46s , which were to have them service a part time line which is the   I’ve rode them a couple of times on the  and no issues. The reality (swap finger use the Reality Stone) Jamaica isn’t the cause of the state of the R46s. 2. Yeah Pitkin ones are Better but they have R179s to give there R46s a break. CI has the R68 classes but but it’s split among 4 lines (NWQG). And last but not least. FATHER TIME  THE age of the R46s are coming to and end. Look how many times MTA SMS (think that the right Acronym) the R32 but they still had PROBLEMS along the way. The Foamers and Railfan has to understand these points. The R46s age is coming to an end because they’re old

15 hours ago, Calvin said:

9853-9942 from the  are in the process of trading mentioned above to the  Crosstown line. Any 4-car R46 and R68/A will be made together as 8 75 ft car trains to the  BROADWAY. So, you may think that this is part 4 of the swap or the final piece of the chapter of the Jamaica-Coney Island fleet swap. 

So is the  returning to Jamaica ?

9 hours ago, R10 2952 said:

Are they trying to offload all the R46s onto the  now? Because that would probably turn out to be an utter clusterf**k...

Seems to me the path of least resistance would simply be to put them on the  lines. 

But won’t they require Concourse to learn how to deal with them when they’re running bad already. I say as long as they’re functional to get passengers to point A to B we’ll just have to endure until the R211 delivery comes into play