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4 via Mosholu

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  1. That is at least a hopeful sign from the Authority, the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority, and the seven private bus companies (Jamaica Buses, Command, Green Bus Lines, Liberty Lines Express, Triboro Coach, Queens Surface and New York Bus Service). It also helps ensure the Metro North west of the Hudson would continue to run. But it is also bittersweet in regards to Long Island getting its weekend service on the West Hempstead cut and service on the Port Washington would get longer headways up to an hour.
  2. Yes; the Alstom propulsion has a faster takeoff and it is more conducive to the elements (rain, snow). The Siemens propulsion, on the other hand, has a slower takeoff and they are more suited to the underground. As far as the goes in avoiding a mix of equipment, the Siemens do not do well with the Alstom propulsion.
  3. No, it is not something new. I've seen this happen before on the train when it would go to Dyre and the train. I do not know if it is some sort of ritual that Dyre conductors have been doing before I began to ride it regularly. I have not seen this happen at Mosholu Parkway on the train, Buhre Avenue on the local, Willets Point on the train, 238 Street on the and trains, and the rest of the system (that is, the IND/BMT).
  4. I have seen about half the fluorescent lights of a Dyre Avenue bound and trains turn off at Baychester Avenue as the doors are closing up, only to come back on as it is departing to go to Dyre, and I have not seen the same thing happen on the Manhattan bound platform. I wonder if it was due to a third rail gap within that area, if it was because of a tragic accident at the Dyre platform that happened that led to that policy, or if it came from the older New York, Westchester, and Boston Railroad practice. I think you could answer this question @Trainmaster5 as you spent most of your time via Dyre, some of it via Bronx Park.
  5. I'd rather make the B6 Local run between Avenue J and Rockaway Parkway when the B6 LIMITED is operating, and have the B6 running between Bay 37th and East New York make all stops south of Coney Island Avenue and north of Rockaway Parkway, running LIMITED between Avenue J and Rockaway Parkway. Nights would still see it local from Bay 37th Street to East New York New Lots Station. A new line extending the short turns from Rockaway Parkway to follow the 15 to JFK would not be necessary at all; it would make it too long.
  6. Just wanted to start off a trivia regarding the syndicated version of Jeopardy. A few of the questions may be difficult to handle, yet others are easy. The link is over here below: https://forms.gle/Fur4YaL8b8ZKwguR8
  7. 9510 to 9784 is the production base order, so it looks to me like they began producing the base order 40ft standard coaches. The option orders have not been paid for, and it is not certain whether there would be any option orders anyway.
  8. Been the same thing with Woodlawn Cemetery, Eastchester Dyre Avenue, and 149 Street - Grand Concourse. I do not know about Burnside Avenue, since I am not down there as often as I used to.
  9. I also got something similar today by way of Mozilla, to the point that I had to go through a workaround.
  10. They had to cancel the Culver link subway shuttles because of the Coronavirus
  11. Does the crew switch at East 177 Street for those runs, or do they switch at Westchester Square by way of a makeshift crew quarter?
  12. Was it chained off in any way or removed entirely?
  13. Interborough Rapid Transit The train can just be suspended for a time, the train just needs to default to its weekend Bowling Green service on weekdays making all Bronx Park stops on the original section (177 Street to Mott Avenue, present day 149 Street - Grand Concourse) with a quicker turnaround at the South Ferry loop (night and weekend service would be the Dyre Shuttle), reduce the Pelham Bay Park Express to rush hours only while cutting the midday express (the Pelham Bay Park Local would be running to East 177 Street midday weekdays when the express is not running at that period to help take the load off Pelham Bay Park turning all trains there), cut the Flushing Express - its length ain't a problem for the Flushing Local, and the 42nd Street shuttle would still be running as is using the September 1995 service plan with daytime and evening service. Independent Railroad and Brooklyn Manhattan Transit The Lefferts train can turn local in Manhattan and Brooklyn while keeping the Far Rockaway Express between the two aforementioned boroughs (Lefferts shuttle service as the backbone from Euclid would still exist, albeit re-designated as the train) and the Beach 116 Street rush hour runs can be temporarily cut, the train can be reduced to Harlem - 145 Street on weekdays with rush service to Bedford Park suspended for a time and it can become the express along Central Park, Sixth Avenue and Brighton to Brighton Beach, the double train can become the Lefferts shuttle starting from Euclid using the express tracks to terminate there, the train can go local along the Grand Concourse for a time while also being the local along Central Park and Sixth Avenue, switching at Washington Square for service along the Manhattan Bridge to Coney Island, the train can run as is with the rush hour reverse peak service to Union Turnpike being cut, the train can say goodbye for some time as well as the train's Kings Highway and Kensington Church Avenue short turns for some time, the double train needs to remain as is to Church Avenue (they cannot risk delaying the train at Smith Ninth Streets or Fourth Avenue - Ninth Street), and the Rockaway Park train can be the sole Broad Channel to Beach 116 Street service for a time with the summer extension temporarily cut. The train can simply become the double train with locals running over the entirety of Nassau Street, the Williamsburg Bridge, Broadway and Jamaica Avenue with the train being a backbone service running express in the morning and afternoon peak from Broadway - Eastern Parkway to Chambers Street and the alternate run cut, the double train can remain as is with headways based on the time period, the train can come back to Nassau running from Metropolitan Avenue - Middle Village to Essex Street weekdays and weekends, the can run express via Manhattan Bridge from 96 Street to Stillwell, trains can continue to go to 96 Street, double trains can see their one trip to 96 Street being permanently cut, the Franklin shuttle has to stay because community leaders would come knocking like how they did the last time the New York City Transit proposed to completely cut it during the corporate era, and the train would run as is weekdays from Ditmars to Whitehall with rush hour extensions to Gravesend 86 Street.
  14. This is almost going to be like how they tried to reduce service on the Pelham Bay Park Local and Express when it got hit by those broken windows.
  15. The 16 destination signage on buses makes sense; after crossing the Eastchester Bridge on Boston Road, it enters into assumed Pelham Manor territory where it terminates at Ropes Avenue on Boston Road. There is a gray area within there because the area that is considered to be such which is really Parkside in Mount Vernon is considered the western part of Pelham Manor which is further east. The schedule has the 16 last stop indicated inside Eastchester, which is wrong since it looks closer to Parkside.
  16. It parallels part of Flushing north of 74 Street - Broadway. The train might as well become redundant north of there.
  17. They should be staying; they're unlikely to go anywhere else.
  18. That would be shot down so fast; they tried making the train the night owl to 179 Street Jamaica when the train ran to 21 Street Queensbridge, but that didn't last long. The train to 179 Street Jamaica would be a non starter because they tried that during the first few years that the train ran express at all times east of Continental. This was during the time the train was also an express east of Continental, which was quickly shot down as well because they did not want the train going to 179 Street Jamaica. As a result, the train became the local east of Continental and the train was cut east of there at all times. I don't determine it is feasible right now to bring back the rush hour train to Continental because it was the service improvement work that permanently cut all trains to Continental, even though Continental was the original terminal for the train.
  19. I was on the train earlier today, and it seems as though some sets, including the one I entered numbered 1121 to 1170, have the Franklin Medgar Evers program modification. I think this is the case because Dianne Thompson from the train replaced Ettinger Gottesman when it came to announcing "The Next Stop is" and the "This is" portion of the program. The rest seem to still have Ettinger Gottesman doing these, as they still have the original 2005 Franklin program as of 2014. The last time the program was modified in 2014, it never had Dianne Thompson do this on the train. But I determined that they should have used Velina Mitchell to do the announcements or the other Thompson (Kathleen Campion from the train) to do these announcements if they really wanted to take Ettinger Gottesman off completely from Lexington.
  20. They are completely different from each other; in fact, the 42 route signs can be interchanged with the 46 route signs since they have an horizontal rollsign setup. The 68 as well as its Kawasaki variant can only be interchanged between each other, not between the 42 and the 68 as they use a vertical rollsign setup.
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