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MTA Asset Recovery has them. Total was about $100 which includes $25 for the strip map, $50 processing fee, and about $25 for shipping and insurance. The fee is a little steep, but I'm happy with it.

Purchase a 2 train strip map from the MTA. Just gonna hang it on the wall for now but in the future I want to backlight it and give it control from an arduino or raspberrypi

I just missed a R68 yesterday at Queensboro Plaza. How often do they run?

Reading up on it, they had planned to run the AirTrain into Manhattan via the Queensboro outer roadways, which were originally used for trolleys. Of course, that ship has sailed since they converted the north roadway into a ped/cycle path (a very nice one I might add).

That's the idea. The station itself is supposed to drive development - just as the original IRT/BMT elevateds did in the outer boroughs.

Does anyone know if the old 2 and 5 route placards are going to be made available? I'd love to get my hands on them.

Sweet! I hope they make their way around. If they do, I wonder if they'll make the strip maps available through Asset Recovery.

Still looking to catch that R68A set on the . What time does it normally run? I've seen 18:57 out of 207 but haven't caught it.

Probably combined into 5-car sets. Originally, all R62/As were delivered as single car units and then mated semi-permanently once they were sure they were reliable.

You're correct. My mistake!

Using a map from October 1992, and adjusting for north terminal swap: Grand Concourse Local, 6th Avenue Express, 4th Avenue Express, West End Local Rush hours, Bedford Park Blvd - Coney Island Middays, 145 St - Coney Island Evenings and Weekends, 21 St Queensbridge - Coney Island Late nights, 36 St (Brooklyn) - Coney Island shuttle Grand Concourse Local/Express, 6th Avenue Express, Brighton Local All times, 205 St Norwood - Coney Island Rush hours, express in the Bronx Queens Boulevard Express, 6th Avenue Local, Culver Local All times except late nights, 179 St - Coney Island Late nights, 21 St Queensbridge - Coney Island Myrtle Avenue Local, Nassau Local, 4th Avenue Express, West End Express Rush hours, Metropolitan Av - Bay Parkway Middays, Metropolitan Av - 9 Av All other times, Metropolitan Av - Myrtle Av shuttle Astoria Local, Broadway Local via Montague, 4th Avenue Local, Sea Beach Local All times, Ditmars Blvd - Coney Island Orange 6th Avenue Local, Brighton Express Rush hours and Middays, 21 St Queensbridge - Brighton Beach All other times, no service Side note, and orange icon should be added. It gets used fairly often.

Some sets are coming back clean to 240th, so I'm guessing they're using the wash facility at Westchester. While they're queued up, I wouldn't be surprised if they use them for service.

From what I've gathered here, there seems to be an obsession with sending at least one 2nd Av train through Montague and down 4th Av to supplement the R. There are already changes in progress (i.e. QBL CBTC, N express in Manhattan) that are going to indirectly improve service to Bay Ridge. Trying to force track connections via 2nd Av just complicates things when there are other options to send trains to areas that don't even have service at all. We get it, the R sucks, and it should be looked into, but 2nd Av trains are not the solution. I completely agree with the deep Chrystie / Water St option and as bobtehpanda mentioned, eventually having a spur to Williamsburg / Utica Av. Either way, these changes aren't going to happen for a long time, but forcing 2nd Av trains through Montague is too disruptive.

Tried a new kind of shot today. Couple new videos coming soon, one today, one next week.

It seems like they're piggy backing off the recent decision to stop arresting people asking for fares. Arresting someone fare-beating doesn't makes sense fiscally, but it's still a crime and there should still be consequences, i.e. a summons, otherwise, why would someone pay at all? I also didn't like how they said they wanted to make the police irrelevant either, because there is probably some correlation between individuals who jump turnstiles and individuals who commit crimes in the system [citation needed]. The idea is there; helping those in poverty reach their places of work, but the message is not, of making the police irrelevant.