MassTransitHonchkrow

thanks for clarifying. I figured discrepancies existed in my logic. If this is regarding an earlier comment, It was never in passenger service. It was passing through and apparently it got stuck, forcing the daisy-chaining of three trains, in which we were evacuated through one car poking in from the back of the uptown platform. When I went to the center, a 5-car set that was very narrow and had been in revenue service elsewhere in the system was in front. You know, I wouldn't be cracking jokes about that section of the system right now...

To assure you I know the difference: R142 cars are either made by Kawasaki or Bombardier, and are used mainly on trains. R143 cars are made by Kawasaki and Alston and are primarily used by the train, although lately I've seen them being used for service. The R142 car is narrower than the R143. The R143 and R142 cars use Strip maps (as opposed to FIND). The R143 cars have a powder blue microchecker wallpaper and single slide doors between cars. The R142 cars have a egg speckled white wallpaper. Other manufacturers may be missing from my list. Thus is what I know so far.

No, I'm positive it was an R142. I said R143. I meant R142. That was a typo and it's too late for me to edit.

A mechanical problem occurred at 125th - St Nicholas earlier thus year. It was so bad they could only poke the first car through. They daisy chained several and we were led out to the platform. The train that was causing trouble? An R143. I'm wondering if that has anything to do with why any car, not just R32s, cannot run in certain areas without causing trouble. :-/

Agreed. Which is why I'm not always here.I contribute to other sites and this one is merely a local stop on my route of contribution. I mod on other sites. The screenshot is cute but I can also block the image host. The joys of a rooted phone. When I'm wrong, I'm wrong. And no matter how much I disagree with others who post, I will not slander any user or call their posts garbage. I'll cite relevant content against your statement. You can't sustain a hypothesis without a thesis statement, much like I can't sustain a claim without proof, like my early wild claim of swipes per month. This past season was 138 rides per month btw Sent from my m8 using Tapatalk

Then don't wait for it to get this bad. Sent from my m8 using Tapatalk

What was that? [emoji349] Another perfect example of not thinking before you post. That pencil in square icon to the right? Clip your quotes better and get back to me when you've got it figured out. You DO realize I've muted you right? I won't stand for abusive people or commentary, online or off. This is a forum. Contribute something WORTH our ten years on air. Not just HOT air. Sent from my m8 using Tapatalk

I don't delve that deep but that is plausible. Kinda like the needing to have 8 cars at max. I made a comment speculating about a ten car and I was corrected. AC units are failing on some R62s as well. I reported #2138 last week. It was blowing hot air. https://twitter.com/MassTransitKrow/status/875785498756820992 Sent from my m8 using Tapatalk

Why do I bother?Then just say I'm wrong. But don't slander me. I have opinions too but I think before posting them and I'd appreciate it if you did the same. Good night. [emoji349] Sent from my m8 using Tapatalk

I know where you're going with that.And I concur. No one feels the sting as bad as Richmond County. Now THAT is neglect. Sent from my m8 using Tapatalk

In addition, they've begun taking down old buzz clocks along 6 Av and West End. They're actually seriously tearing old copper out if the wall. Sent from my m8 using Tapatalk

On the inside.I know the rollers are different and the front ends look more like what the R62s became. In my eyes, they share the same depressing aesthetic. I think the post-white flight cleanup was awesome, but the tunnels, disused tracks and even substation walls are mired with graffiti. And largely in blighted neighborhoods. This is why the and , which both serve East New York, have the oldest cars in the fleet. That section of town is systematically deprioritized. They got the wrong Moses unfortunately. Sent from my m8 using Tapatalk

You mean the Triboro project? If I may ask, there's an overgrown with weeds rail bed below the Rockaway Blvd viaduct. I never looked right going uptown because I was always on the port side of the car going north. What was that for? Sent from my m8 using Tapatalk

Those are dead to me. I know they're technically different but I lump them visually with R32 cars. Sent from my m8 using Tapatalk In our upcoming "Summer of Hell" they won't be able to be so picky without consequences. While delays are an Injustice to any commute, I often feel a picky and insensitive commuter ruins their own ride before the MTA does it for them. Sent from my m8 using Tapatalk It never had any. Only the ribbon cuttings are supposed to look pretty. Here I was, thinking my suburban attitude was out of place. Sent from my m8 using Tapatalk Doesn't matter. The MTA's efforts are fake news anyway They are, in essence, the model shell company. Passing the buck, avoiding blame, shifting funds, extorting the poor - I almost think Big Pharma's jealous sometimes. Pfizer board meeting off record remark: "Why can't we get away with [emoji90] like the MTA does?" Sent from my m8 using Tapatalk

As is the neighborhood surrounding it. The MTA seems to have a long history of ditching or deprioritizing repairs for blighed sections of town. Ben carson's Titanic remark, while senseless in reality, does resonate with transit equity. If infrastructure sucks for some, it's only a matter of time before it drags the whole system down. As @ShadeJay put it, "the year the MTA is dragged to hell."

It seems they were quicker to fix the FINDs on those. I've noticed some trains huddled in empty express tracks at night with workers on laptops and lots of wires hanging about. Not sure if that's FIND related or those new signs on the R160s glorifying SAS. It's a good suggestion. This is the highest EL in the entire system, so great shots should be possible all around. I've seen it leave at 7:20 PM from PABT. It's usually Rockaways bound. The markers exist so that both conductor and engineer can clearly see the platform and everything near it. I don't think it's a big deal and I could understand why you don't think so either. However, as stated by the next poster, curved platforms are harder to scope from the conductor's position. When you have loonies on the platform who disregard spatial and actual realities, it helps to spot them early and if I were that conductor, I'd panic too, especially in light of track intrusions. and yesterday night I was on an R32 whose door only opened halfway. When customers hold the doors, not only do they delay service for trains behind and customers ahead, it's abusive to train cars and shortens their revenue life, while lengthening their time in a repair yard.

If I remember, aren't they the second-oldest? Thirty years is a stretch. It would make them older than the R32s are now or in ten years.

T-Mobile is my backbone connection. And I share bandwidth with another VPN tunnel. When I'm on sites like this, this connection is usually involved.

the new threshold is 30 GB. And if you use a VPN the bandwidth doesn't count, saving you data. Because of that I can push as much as 80 GB of data traffic over three months. TMO only sees 6 GB of it. The most I ever did was last January at 39.1 GB. And that was Northern Westchester too. In a basement.

As does this T-Mobile user, who celebrates his fourth anniversary with them this August. I've made several runs between the city and Albany as of late, and while the data portion still needs work upstate, the calls all pass as long as you're not a slow driver.