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4 via Mosholu

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  1. All R211's are going to have the OPTONIX propulsion. Most of the 160's have the original three phase Alstom propulsion, a few of them have the Siemens propulsion. The option order (9803-9942) was supposed to have the Siemens propulsion, but it got the original three phase Alstom propulsion instead.
  2. First, I get that you just joined the forum space, and there are some things that you may have gotten correct regarding the car orders. Threatening a motorman (T/O) is not a good look man. I just really hope you have the dignity to be mature. Having a sense of civility is needful in this day and age, not a cyberattack on a T/O that likely knows more from past experience.
  3. To be honest and fair to you, I've been to Continental before. You may be right about it not needing any sort of National Guard assistance and about Bowery needing help as you mentioned, but I would say along that same vein that Woodlawn/Jerome would need help too.
  4. Yes, it was. They just simply sent them to the major transit hubs like 42 St-Grand Central and 42 St-Times Square. What they should have done was to send them down to the areas where crime is likely to spiral out of control like 149-3, 170, 173 (present day Mount Eden), Parsons/Archer, and Continental.
  5. My email came in too but I'm going to take civil service exam on Sunday, April 21. I also received a text as well.
  6. That also includes 7061-7065, the entire set as well. They both ran on the 5 yesterday to Dyre.
  7. It actually has "Station Improvements" listed under there for the 191 Street bypass; I just looked at the entry for the planned service changes for the train.
  8. I know that I can see 2415 pictured in the derailment pictures, but what were the other three sets that were involved?
  9. If you look next to the service status on the MTA website, you can see an option to input your travel directions. As far as telling the web designers of the MTA to make things backwards compatible is concerned, it happened during the website update transition. But that has gone from being beta only for a while.
  10. Thanks for these updates concerning 82nd Street - Jackson Heights and 111th Street - NY Hall of Science. Hopefully both stops would look good when they reopen for Manhattan bound service out of Main Street - Flushing. I'm hoping that 69th and 52nd Streets would retain their secondary names that they've had for a while (that is, Fisk for 69th and Lincoln for 52nd). 90th Street - Elmhurst Avenue and Willets Point should have been part of the planned renewals; it was a mistake for Grand, Washington, Beebe, and Hoyt Avenues to be dropped from 30th, 36th, 39th Avenues and Astoria Boulevard - in my honest opinion.
  11. Does New York City Bus have any plans to begin to use digital interval (run) boxes for the local/limited/select routes? It's so odd that the manual run boxes, which were introduced during the fishbowl era, are still in use for new local/limited/select routes.
  12. More than thirty trains were vandalized across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens; it affected the entire Grand Concourse and a portion of Central Park West, Sixth Avenue, and Queens Boulevard. The entire BMT South (West End, Brighton, Sea Beach, Culver) was almost kneecapped by the vandalism that happened which caused massive delays there, especially on the entire BMT North by way of the train, which is staffed as part of the train. It was officially decommissioned at around 7pm on Tuesday as earlier in the afternoon rush around 6:30pm, they weren't sending any out of Whitehall according to one train crew member upon seeing four smashed windows in one car on a vandalized train set that came to the middle track out of Ditmars. That train was taken out of service and he just sat in the tower/crew quarter that they had, since it was a sudden event that happened. Any other trains that came down to Whitehall from Ditmars were also taken out of service since vandals straight up shut down the entire train. There were just very few trains to even send out of Whitehall since the vandalism north of there was so widespread. The train itself did not come back to service until about 5pm yesterday in the middle of the afternoon rush. It only fully came back to service this morning. To put it simply, saddening and horrible are only understatements of what happened for the rest of Tuesday and most of Wednesday. It just underscores why the preventative policies regarding quality of life worked under Giuliani and Bratton as the Authority was coming back from decades of neglect due to the City's deferred maintenance of key sectors stemming from the three former rapid transit railroads (the IRT being the most affected) and the surface division for most of the 70's and early 80's. It was later during that time where Gunn came into the picture to fix those rapid transit railroads (the premier one being the IRT) including the surface division.
  13. I've done a round trip on the M15+ and the M103. I've also done a one way trip on the B54 from Brooklyn Heights-Jay Street Borough Hall to Ridgewood Terminal Myrtle Wyckoff. I came close to doing the full Co Op City Loop on the Bx23 as a result of an express run that I did on a Pelham Bay Park Express that ran from East 177 Street to Pelham Bay Park.
  14. The Westinghouse 44's were officially retired on September 16, 2010 along the A and C trains. The retirement began on December 18, 2009 when it was decided that the rest of the 32's and 42's were going to stay due to the high levels of vandalism and structural integrity issues that were on those 44's. Half of the 46 fleet from Jamaica went to Pitkin and the rest of the 160's that could have gone there went to Jamaica.
  15. Make that five people bit the dust and one hundred and sixty one people ended up injured. You're right about how five R62's ended up scrapped and the train speed was reduced when diverging grade time signals were introduced on that part of 4 (Lexington) Avenue. The pocket track that was once there was ripped off and replaced with a simple crossover, among some other replacements that occurred north of 14 Street-Union Square which included support pillar replacement. I'm almost certain that because of the drunk motorman, a grade timer of about twenty two miles per hour was installed north of Burnside Avenue on the Manhattan bound local track; forcing inbound Mosholu trains to slow down a bit before regaining speed and entering Burnside Avenue.
  16. Did the Axion signs on 8503 black out or something like that?
  17. No they haven't; it is still active, though the last time I was down there was a long time before it was set up. They are yet to build an in system transfer there.
  18. The Interborough mainline got their signals upgraded for Automatic Train Supervision. Based on that, it was able to get Light Emitting Diode countdown clocks that came from Siemens a lot earlier than the train and the IND/BMT (besides the train which got Siemens countdown clocks including simpler in house countdown clocks as a result of installation of CBTC) - which got Liquid Crystal Diode type countdown clocks through the installation of WiFi as well as 3G mobile systems on nearly all of the system.
  19. There was one train I took this past week that slithered into the bidirectional local track like it was the train; that's actually better in my honest opinion. I really think the train having to relay north of Bedford Park feels like doing too much.
  20. It's more than likely Rogers Junction that is just making this slowdown more evident.
  21. That one ain't a surprise, given how Corona has consistently maintained its 188 conversion sets to be better than when Pelham initially had them without the CBTC provision.
  22. I saw you just put the 7 local sign and forgot to insert Flushing Express, is it okay if you included those words and switched the 7 local sign to an express? (The first sign you just did was just the way I would have wanted it, considering the simplification you did.)
  23. They are likely under warranty in the meantime. It's not going to matter when that expires.
  24. Can I get two service signs for the train renovation work (I want both in a white background with black border on top and Helvetica text) First service sign To Times Square & Hudson Yards via Steinway Local Flushing Local, all times. After Mets-Willets Pt. Blvd, next stop for all trains is 103 St-Corona Plaza. For service to 111 St-NY Hall of Science, transfer to the Main St-Flushing bound train on the Main St-Flushing platform via mezzanine. Flushing Express, morning rush only Between Mets-Willets Pt. Blvd & 74 St-Broadway. All Flushing Express trains run local after 74 St-Broadway; for service to 82 St-Jackson Hts & 111 St-NY Hall of Science, transfer to the Main St-Flushing bound train on the Main St-Flushing platform via mezzanine. Second service sign All Main St & Manhattan bound Flushing Express trains are on either local track at this time.
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