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1 hour ago, trainfan22 said:

The newest stretch of ELs I believe is the N/Q/F tracks at Stillwell. I remember riding out to Stillwell on the Brighton local and those tracks were concrete before the rebuild of the station.

 

Part of the El between 121 Street and Stuphin Blvd is fairly new. Outside of those two examples most of the ELs in NYC has to be around 90 to 100 years old on average 

The connection from the BMT Jamaica Line to the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line used by the  just east of Myrtle Avenue station was completed rebuilt from the ground up in 2018 (I think).

Additionally, parts of the Babylon Branch that were grade separated in the 1970s/80s are elevated. There are mostly just short sections at stations to make space for parking below, but there's also a long uninterrupted elevated section between Lindenhurst and Copiague.

30 minutes ago, IAlam said:

Ok so I was looking at the service status of the  and on the suspension of service to Jamaica I noticed this paragraph on the bottom 

https://new.mta.info/map/21841

Has anyone tried to do this yet, especially for trips past Jamaica?

A few days ago I was able to ride from Atlantic Terminal to Queens Village with just a MetroCard. I have also used it for a few trips from Atlantic Terminal to Nassau County which required me to change at Jamaica by buying a ticket from Jamaica to wherever my final destination was and using my MetroCard to ride between Jamaica and Atlantic Terminal.

This map doesn't even include all closed stations. Several entire closed lines are missing.

5 hours ago, VIP said:

There hasn’t been an R68A on the  ever since the R160’s started service on the line…

There was one today.

The announcements for the 42nd Street are unchanged. The moving platform warning at Times Square is still there.

The passageway is open now. It was built where Track 3 used to be.

When the 42nd Street reopens with the new platforms will it also have six car trains or are those coming later?

41 minutes ago, GojiMet86 said:

Since when does North Hempstead have a bus service? Someone posted a photo of a blue Gillig owned by the town.

Are you sure it's not Huntington? I know they have their own local buses, but if this wasn't that then I have no idea.

This is great news! It's probably the best thing he's done anytime recently. I'll leave this here for anyone interested.

2 hours ago, Lex said:

That's normally used when joining the regular (depicted) route.

I can't count how many times I've heard that announcement or its counterpart on trains or in videos.

1 hour ago, Calvin said:

This usually happens if the  or  is happening to be arriving at Franklin Av or a few minutes away as the ones that begins their journey to the Bronx at New Lots Av. They respond after leaving Crown Heights-Utica Av. 

I heard this in The Bronx on a to Utica Avenue.

Here's an announcement I heard on the today.

"The electronic strip maps are in service."

Anyone else know about this? I never heard this when the old and strip maps were in service.

37 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

It seems like is keeping the R211's behind the fence near Costco for the time being, theres no notice posted about SBK being active yet. They are most likely waiting for the other 3 cars to arrive to move them all at once.

The cars are being stored across 2nd Avenue from Costco. This is a picture I took from outside the fence.

3 minutes ago, LaGuardia Link N Tra said:

Question: Do you still have to pay $2.75 to ride on any SBS lines or no?

I think you're still supposed to. This is because although the farebox is inaccessible, the machines are still working and there is no need to access the farebox anyway.

6 hours ago, Jova42R said:

Another idea is to run the 98 from Suffern to Nycak via Montvale as a south Rockland connector, then have the 99 cross the Tappan Zee to Tarrytown (or run on the tramway that would have bus lanes)

@LaGuardia Link N Tra @B35 via Church @Deucey @OIG119 @engineerboy6561 @Cait Sith @gtNovaBusRTS9369 @EastFlatbushLarry thoughts on the L96's rolling stock? Would DMUs be best, or would it be more feasible to electrify it. If DMUs, which ones?

Perhaps the light rail system could better serve passengers if it had a branch to Nanuet and Spring Valley and/or was extended to White Plains. That might be too much of a HudsonLink duplicate, however.

As for rolling stock DMUs like the Stadler GTWs on River LINE in New Jersey would be most appropriate. I don't think the system would have enough capacity to justify electrification.

20 hours ago, trainfan22 said:

I just was on an 32 train that got taken OOS cause the T/O wasn't getting indication. Sucks as the train was crush loaded.. That and I had gotten an 32 both ways traveling to my destination. Only for the train home to crap out at Canal St.

 

Still like the 32s though.

I got that same train at Jay St and was going to do a round trip to 207th and back.

6 hours ago, New Flyer Xcelsior said:

Last night, I was riding the , and 3 weird things happened:

1. At 9th Av, I saw an R32 with a designation leading, Franklin Av rollsigns, then a second R32 with a Train to the Plane rollsign. After this, there were about 4 work train cars, then another R32 with no designation and another one with a designation. It was roughly 10:30 PM.

2. The ran express from 36th to Atlantic, then stopped at DeKalb (local), then went back to the normal route. Why? Is this a GO relating to the early ending of service?

1: That is a garbage train. The R32s are used to propel the train, and the flatcars carry empty bins which are exchanged for full bins.

2: IINM normally late night  service makes local stops on 4th Avenue, and also stops at DeKalb.

Is the first picture at New Lots Avenue?

4 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

This is supposed to be released this month... Either it's coming May 31st, or it'll be late and released in June... 

That wouldn't be much of a surprise. It seems that whenever the MTA announces that somthing will be completed, started, or released by a particular month it always comes at the end of the month. The countdown clocks on the Brighton Line were supposed to come in October 2017, and went into service on October 30th. Phase 1 of the Second Avenue Subway was supposed to open in December 2016, and opened on January 1st 2017.

2 hours ago, R42sDaBest said:

Best Subway Car IMO

Name checks out.

1 hour ago, trainfan22 said:

Finally got to ride 4970 today, it seems like it's always on the B42 but I always just miss it.

What's special about 4970?

31 minutes ago, N6 Limited said:

If the was extended from South Ferry (or Rector St to dip down low enough to go under the river) to St George, how long would that ride be?  

Probably 20 minutes at most.

1 hour ago, TransitMan0251 said:

5009 ENY to PARLOR

What's "PARLOR"?

1 minute ago, LaGuardia Link N Tra said:

Well, I'm hoping for XN60's to appear on the M14 (A/D) SBS. I wonder how this is going to turn out

 

That can't happen. Do you mean XE60s?

5 hours ago, FLX9304 said:

It’s a safety hazard for newspapers to be covered on the full with cab doors. Something serious happens, it’s their asses

If I had to guess it's probably a fire or visibility hazard. Is this correct?

2 hours ago, R32-railfan said:

Is it legal for the TO to cover up the railfan window? The  train I took this morning, the TO had a newspaper taped to the window.

I've only ever seen this on the B Division. Never on the A Division.