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  1. 4 minutes ago, Future ENY OP said:

    Yea. Early morning runs with these buses.  KB has the most right now with 7 buses so I would expect more of these buses to go out daily. I know that OH and MHV are still training.  
     

    9665 made an appearance on the M11 on Monday (I could be wrong) 

    Yep, April 20th to be exact.

    I wouldn't be surprised to see the rest of the LFS HEVs in the Bronx and Manhattan start running in service over the next few days.

  2. On 4/23/2021 at 10:01 PM, danielhg121 said:

    So #2910 will most likely be making a final trip on the QM6 (10:30 PM) to North Shore Towers and it's unlikely that it'll see service again. The last MTA-operated D4500 with the green flipdot signs and Detroit Diesel engine. Apparently, the operator had to practically beg to pull it out for the afternoon run. I'm sure VG8 will be happy about this haha. 

    Well I guess that wasn't its final trip... it's currently in service and running on the QM1 into the city as we speak 🤣

  3. 14 hours ago, Calvin said:

    2295, 2300, 2303: Charleston to Castleton 

     

    21 minutes ago, Future ENY OP said:

    Those 2 didn’t move yet. They are still in Charleston.  2295 is on the SIM26, and 2303 is on the SIM31. Both Charleston lines. Unless Castelton is covering those. Those 2 buses did not move. 

    Add 2300 to that as well- the bus ran on the SIM25 this morning.

  4. 2 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

    They're not working extra hours. The (C) "overnight" is the (D) shuttle to 145th St...

    Look at it this way: the (C) running from Euclid to 205th is still a (C) for the majority of its route. If you truncated that service to just run between 145th and 205th, that isn't really the (C) anymore, even if the majority of folks know that the (C) is replacing (D) service along the Concourse.

    I know it seems counterproductive to call the overnight shuttle a "(D)", but it's the most effective way at differentiating the day service where trains from the Bronx are still running into Midtown and Brooklyn, and night service where trains are only running to/from Harlem. 

  5. 6 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

    Why aren't they running the (C) overnight on Concourse instead of the (D)? All that time changing rollsigns when it'd just make more sense to keep the (C) full time on Concourse...

    They don't normally run the (C) overnight anyways... And besides the "one-seat ride for folks along the Concourse" argument, why on Earth would you make those crews work extra hours when there can just be a (D) shuttle service instead?

    And it's not like they'll NEED to waste "all that time changing rollsigns", there'll probably be a few R68 / R68A sets left over at the Concourse Yard that can be used for the (D) overnight shuttle.

  6. 2 hours ago, 4CNRailfan said:

    Has 1326 been reported? Just saw it crossing the Whitestone into Queens, apparently now it’s at CP.

    To answer your question though, yes it has (it's been there for a week or two now). It was out today as one of the BxM9 College Point trippers, what you saw was that bus deadheading back to the depot.

  7. On 4/2/2021 at 5:50 PM, Snorunts said:

    327 - Version 2

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    Try to look out for these buses and see if anything is installed (I'll keep my eye out for #253): 

    - 253, 320, 321, 323, 326, 329, 330, 331, 332, 334, 336, 337, 339, 341, 345, 346 (016)

    - 7441, 7442, 7448, 7460, 7464 (005)

    - 8005, 8006, 8007, 8008, 8019, 8021, 8027, 8028, 8034, 8035, 8037, 8039, 8041, 8042, 8043, 8044, 8046, 8047, 8050, 8051, 8053, 8054, 8055, 8056, 8057, 8059-8089 (056)

    341- no screens (yet), just spotted it a few minutes ago on the Bx32.

    321- unsure but the last time I saw it in July it didn’t have screens (though it could’ve gotten them since then lol)

    8076- didn’t have screens as of December, but again it also could gotten the screens since then.

  8. 1 hour ago, NYCTransitFannerBoy said:

    I saw two Spring Creek Depot based MCI D4500CLs on 3rd Ave in East Harlem yesterday and they were signed up as the BM5 to Midtown. Are there any units being transferred from Spring Creek to Yonkers?

    2 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

    That wasn't the question though. He asked if units were being transferred. The answer is yes. I believe 3231 is another unit that's been around and transferred between Yonkers and Spring Creek.

    It kinda was... his underlying question was whether or not units were recently transferred from Spring Creek to Yonkers, namely the ones he saw. They aren't. (Yonkers might have sent a few buses to them but that happened a few months ago, not recently). In fact there haven't been any reported transfers between the two depots for at least 2 months now (at least according to the transfers thread).

    Now maybe I'm wrong and they actually are at Yonkers now, but most likely they were just going to that lot in East Harlem I mentioned earlier. They've been storing buses there during the midday between the AM and PM rush for years now.

  9. 49 minutes ago, NYCTransitFannerBoy said:

    I saw two Spring Creek Depot based MCI D4500CLs on 3rd Ave in East Harlem yesterday and they were signed up as the BM5 to Midtown. Are there any units being transferred from Spring Creek to Yonkers?

    IIRC there’s a lot on 128th and 2nd where they often store some express coaches during the week. I’ve seen a few Spring Creek and Far Rockaway buses up there a few years back. They do this so buses don’t have to trek all the way back to Queens and this way they can get buses to Midtown faster.
     

    Staten Island does the same thing where they store their buses around the Michael J. Quill depot during the middle of the day so they don’t have to drive all the way back to Staten Island after an AM trip and they can have their buses in Midtown in time for the PM rush.

  10. 11 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

    What was the reasoning for rerouting the Bx5 to Bay Plaza instead of Orchard Beach a few years ago?

    IIRC they wanted to send the Bx5 up there so that folks had more accessibility to the malls, especially those in the southeast Bronx. The MTA added some shuttle trips on the Bx12 local between Orchard Beach and Pelham Bay to make up for the loss of Bx5 service there.

  11. 1 hour ago, 4CNRailfan said:

    So it's been at Tuskegee? Me and some friends saw it turning into the back entrance with a Gun Hill decal on it's rear end. Photos to prove.

    https://imgur.com/gallery/yxT3N2S

    Chances are it maybe have been at Gun Hill several years ago and never had that sticker replaced (or it did have a Tuskegee sticker on the rear and it might have fallen off or something).

    Just an FYI, sometimes depots will prematurely slap stickers onto buses, or completely fail to replace them. #5334 has been at Kingsbridge for a little over a year and a half (or two, I don’t recall how long it’s been over there) and that bus still has a Flatbush sticker on it when I saw it back last December. So it’s possible a similar thing happened with #5974.

  12. 40 minutes ago, Future ENY OP said:

    This one I find very strange to have College Point to do the shuttle. However, my only guess is that College Point has routes that go right outside York College so technically it makes sense. 
     

    However, for the Q98v I’m looking at it from a deadhead perspective and since JFK is closest to Far Rockaway it totally makes sense. First 2 days of the shuttle was exclusive to JFK since they had 5-6 buses. Again, it’s good that College point is getting the work. 

    Actually, CP had one bus out on the route on the first day: #528. To my knowledge it did one round trip on the Q98V then went onto the Q25 / Q65 (I forgot exactly which one but it was one of the Limited routes).

  13. 53 minutes ago, UTC Bus Roster said:

    Did you physically see 2906? You can't base your info only on tracking. #2906 was sent to scrap years ago. The only 2900's at CP are 2905 & 2910. 2907 was recently send to  ECH Scrap.

    Not only on tracking, found this video from last year of #2906: 

    Probably should’ve linked this originally, but regardless, it’s headed to scrap now.
     

    My original point with the tracker was that it was still running a few days ago and not “sent to scrap years ago”. I know that BusTime is not super credible, but said bus has been spotted by others running around in the past few months.

  14. 1 hour ago, UTC Bus Roster said:

    Don't you mean 2905? 2906 was scrapped years ago.

    It wasn't scrapped years ago, #2906 last tracked on January 27th of this year on the QM31.

    Edit: #2905 is currently running on the QM32, so that unit is still in service.

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