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I guess if this is any indication as to how those R44's are performing, this is it. Notice how they say trains we have available lol and not crews we have available.

Doing the math here. MNR's fleet has around 184 Shoreliners, leave 15 out as spares. Leaves us with 169 to play around with. MNR only really needs maxi-Bombs (full 7 cars + an engine) during the rush, other than that, they can get away with 6 cars or less. I would assume that in a given day, MNR probably uses around 22 Gennies, 14 of which can have the full 7 cars and the rest can run with 5 cars. This leaves us with 31 cars remaining. The BL20 mini-Bomb sets only run with 2 coaches + cab car and there are only around 3-4 of them and the remaining left from here could be sent to LIRR. Sometimes they run a maxi-Bomb on Waterbury or Danbury (during off-peak hours) which is unnecessary but with this equipment manipulation, it'd be less taxing on the engines.

Really? I thought MARC only leased about 7-8 coaches where they can't even utilize the cab car because it doesn't work with LIRR's signaling system. If they're looking for 26 coaches, they'll need a whole lot more engines as they would have to double-end the trains with DE/DM30AC's and this is on top of their Cannonball trains and Penn Station directs. Regardless, I guess I should shelve this idea until CDOT receives their new coaches for use on the Hartford, Danbury and Waterbury lines which may allow MNR/CDOT to lease some Shoreliners to LIRR. As it stands, a good chunk of the Hudson Line trains to Poughkeepsie are packed especially in the summer.

Just had a thought but theoretically can’t MNR loan LIRR some Shoreliners for the summer? I’m sure they can spare about 10-12 cars or so to put the C3’s on more heavily used lines. It’s similar to what they did with the MARC cars a couple years back.

Does the cost to repair the bus outweigh the price to buy a new one? Many of these buses are held for investigations for a long period of time, have significantly less mileage than buses from the same order by the time they retire and factoring in man hours, parts? Does the return on investment really work out in the MTA’s favor? I guess age of the bus plays a big factor and how severe the damage is.

Any idea which intervals it's operating on?

4278 got a repaint

Interesting, these are stored at Harmon? 8079 and 8096 are running around as a pair so their mates are probably one of the above. Maybe I'll take a look around next time I'm up there.

If you just scrolled up, there was a post regarding how many are left and that was as of 2 weeks ago. They’re not actively getting rid of them just yet since the M9A’s aren’t here yet. So if you counted, should be around 98 cars give or take. M3A’s*. They haven’t scrapped any M3A’s that I know of except maybe one pair but I don’t know the fleet numbers.

I wear timbs now and they’re quite comfortable but there was an adjustment curve to get situated into them but I think that happens with any shoe.

I think anything with a 1/2 inch heel is good, I wore hiking boots to mine. You have to climb up a little steel structure so you need something to sorta hook onto the step while climbing up. Then walk on some uneven ballast so make sure they’re comfortable.

What's preventing you from just buying a cheaper fare and staying onboard the bus? How do bus operators keep track of who paid to cross the river?

Not in transit but another MTA agency, for climbing up equipment, get close to the equipment as much as possible and make sure you have a good grip with two hands (pause.) to leverage yourself up there. As for coming back down from equipment, make sure your leg extends as far down as possible with the tip of your toes pointed downward so that you have to best chance to feel the ground and shift your body weight if need be. Take off your backpack and put it directly on the train so you have better balance and always make sure you have a footing or grip and maintain those three points of contact.

Damn. I’m guessing this is sorta phase 1 of PSD’s. are you privy to which division this will occur on or which stations and lines? Thanks for the update!

Sorry. I’m confused, they’re going to remove the entire Manhattan bound 61 St platform? And also close 52nd and 69th Manhattan bound platforms? Or do you mean non-overlapping the 61 St closure. That’s a lot of stops skipped in that case. EDIT: Never mind looked it up. They’re probably going to replace half at a time. So that section will get new platform replaced followed by switching trains to the center track and ripping out the platform on the other side. I feel bad for Sunnyside folks especially 33rd St or 40th St because they gotta ride all the way back to Woodside just to go to Manhattan.

It depends if you’re going for assistant conductor or locomotive engineer. For engineers, you can’t really run on your own until you’re marked up so you’re studying, running trains, working all sorts of odd hours in various locations. It’s a straight shot, the minute you’re marked up, you’re fully qualified and you still have to do annual block training classes. For conductors, it’s different as you’ll be in school for about 11-12 weeks, start working as an assistant conductor doing on the job training and in a year, they’ll call you back to get the conductor qualifications which means more studying and exams.

Wait till they call you for the entrance exam. After you pass that, then they’ll schedule you for signals and definitions, you’ll have 5 weeks to study from the point where they give you the packet which is plenty of time. Also, decide if you want to choose the path of locomotive engineer or conductor.

5988 blue/gold scheme

Sure why not. You may have to use the overhead racks to store it if the bus is packed. Otherwise, the bus operator won’t even bat an eye.

Nor blatantly having the NIS sign up. That would infuriate me more as it sounds like it was premeditated.

The videos shown definitely seems like they weren't within the stations themselves but rather the intermediate zones between stations. An RTO employee here already confirmed the kids snuck in through the ends of the station and walked on the layup tracks to get onto the equipment. One of the videos also showed them wearing an MTA vest so nobody would really bat an eye if someone in MTA PPE got onto the tracks to do their job.

Under investigation right now

Having visited the ECH scrap lot recently. It looks like they may preserve 3667 or 3750 but probably too early to tell. On a side note, the buses listed on the front page of the scrapped equipment, may still be preserved for one reason or another so how does one know if they're "scrapped" so to speak? For example, 1205 is still there on hold but a lot of those NGs are gone.

Wanted to get a ride on the new ECH XD40’s and see if they took off. I managed to catch it on the Q50 but the operator wasn’t really flooring it. Probably because the city installed speed cameras next to the service road combined with too much runtime in the schedule.

No subways doesn’t follow HOS. I think it’s maximum sixteen hours per shift for them. They also don’t fall under railroad retirement, only the commuter railroads here do (LIRR & MNR). PATH I believe is considered a railroad so they would fall under railroad retirement and falls under hours of service.