jon2305

The service is hot trash today. Its been a while since I've rode this line but man, smh. Just felt like I needed to rant about it.

That R142 was there yesterday. I can attest to that, but no idea why.

Happy Friday everyone, hope everyone's safe out there and their love ones are too. Just want to give my respects & condolences to the family of Garrett Goble, motorman who was killed in the line of duty during the midst of the pandemic approximately past 3am tonight (one year ago). It was truly disgusting and upsetting the way he went out and the unnecessary circumstances of why this had to happen to an essential worker and most importantly human being. Wishing all the MTA workers out there a great weekend and stay safe. Ya'll keep the city moving without a shadow of a doubt.

SMH.... Excuse my rant, but cheesy looking. There's no need for that LED green circle if its running on the IMO. Can't they be more creative than that and the fact that it's only on 1 car. I'm sorry but if this is where my tax dollars are going towards then I don't see ANY improvement. Just my two cents

The spent approximately $600 million on those trains for all intents and purposes of replacing the R32s & R42s that were still remaining pass their useful life. So yes they will stay and serve the transit system for the long haul. It wouldn't make any logical sense at all to pull them of again and restore a car fleet close to 60 years of age back into service. The R179s are still relatively brand new even after two years so there still some kinks they have to troubleshoot on. They continue to check and maintain any viable aspect of the R179s so they'll get it together moving forward. The R142s which were made by the same builder as the R179s (Bombardier) had there issues early on as well, as did other subway car fleets. Despite all the mechanical flaws, bottom line at this point and time the R179s are needed and the can pick up the slack once the warranty on the R179s expire. There's no need for the blame game towards the T/Os or train crew in general. They are quality trained to know how to operate and control the movement of their assigned train. Unless there's more to it with said "Black Box", T/Os don't deserve to be scapegoated. The Bombardier techs from what I've heard don't grab as decent as the Kawasaki techs do when applying the braking system into a station and in bad weather it's the same issue with all the tech trains.

https://www.ny1.com/share/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2021/03/05/mta-s-troubled-train-cars-overran-stations-in-queens--operators-say-they-are-notorious?cid=share_clip This story from NY1 pertaining to 2 R179 cars overshooting the platforms on the stations.

Yes. Helvetica font just like the ones on the & .

The last 2 ex-Corona R62A's singles (1906 & 1907) have been overhauled and shipped out to Livonia yard for service usage on the 42nd St .

The R68As have recently had their trucks overhauled with new wheels added. But i agree the C.I. R46s are really running hard and could use some TLC at this point.

The entire R211 order is to replace the NYCT R46's & SIR R44's ONLY. An actual fleet replacement for the R68/R68A's is yet to be planned & announced. Unless there's considerable mechanical or structure damage happening to the R68/68A's, I don't see them going anywhere anytime soon. At least not within this current decade.

The R211's obvious arrival is to further support CBTC ready corridors. In this case the next installation of CBTC on the 8 Av line is a prime example of where these trains will end up. So I'll bank on the to be true primary subway lines to inherent the R211's. I'll even through in the just for the sake of Queens Blvd being CBTC-equipped I'll exclude the for now seeing that is only 8-cars. Remember, this is just from the base order alone which is forecasted as 440 standard (R211A) cars. Now the "Option Order" for this fleet could put things in perceptive going forward with fleet expansion. Only time will tell.

Those elevated stations on the are due for "station renewal work" through the 2020-2024 capital program. However I believe there isn't and actual date or time on when that will happen.

(R62As 1943-44-47-48-1908-1949) are supposedly the next 6 car units. Single-unit 1908 inserted between 1948 & 1949.

It was 6346-6350 and no, no word on those sets being repaired.

So, R62A 1881-85 decided to migrate to Queens on Election night. Its currently at Corona yard mingling with R62As 1906 & 1907 on track 15. Possible transfer to the overhaul shop maybe??

Agreed. Personally, it's innovative to say the least but yes there are some spots that are way off in geographic nature. From my experience so far navigating thru this map has been choppy.

C.I. yard R46's REALLY need some inspections. Based on what I've seen on the some of them just look beat up..... flat wheels that need truing, tape coming off on the side roof end bonnets and dirty route signs. Just like to add, so far this weekend has been an interesting one to railfan. trains to Brighton Beach, using some spared R62A's. R179's slowly coming back into action.

Been seeing alot of R68/A's on the lately, saw at least 1 or 2 of them on the yesterday. Kinda of a 1990's feel with all the equipment variety on those lines.

Looks like a few of the R188s have received new LED (blueish) Headlights just like R160 9928. Cars: (7480) & (7837) new headlight bulbs

Well the is a primary subway line for the R211s there's no doubt about that, considering they are intended to replace the R46s.

Not to mention, these would make it alot easier to designate the subway route the trains are traveling on.

Also i spotted at least 2 R68's on the .

I just noticed R188 car (7437) has a blue light around one of the middle doors, similar to the ones on some of the R160A's. Very unusual.

Its still on the 1. I can confirm that because I saw it yesterday at 125th Street coupled with 2216-2220.

Not so fast, just yesterday on my way to my boys house on the -R62A 1867 (hot car). Luckily I was on car 1866 which indeed was nice and cold. The hot cars or out there, only the great thing is that there's not as many as there use to be given that in recent years the R62As have undergone several modifications.