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3 minutes ago, MysteriousBtrain said:

And this makes sense because????

Just hypothesizing. Probably because these trains are probably decade out and Lexington Ave CBTC may be online before then. But that's just me.

I hate the yellow grab rails, and hope that they don't make it to the production trains...but other than that, the renderings look much better (and less cartoonish) than previous versions.

14 minutes ago, 4CNRailfan said:

NTTs on the  sounds nice. I hope this happens within the next 10 years.

I wouldn't be surprised if they wind up on the   , as the R142s from the  will likely have to go to the for Lexington Ave CBTC before the R262s.

On 1/14/2019 at 11:23 PM, Enjineer said:

Ah, thanks for the info. Any idea if the 179s will be assigned permanently to the C, or if they'll move back to ENY once these kinks are worked out.

Just amateur speculation on my end, but I wouldn't be surprised if the  is staying at 480' after all, with the 4-car R179s. But, wouldn't the only other places they could theoretically go be ENY or the , where the former already has an abundance of 4-car sets? Again, I could be wrong, but it seems that the Eastern Division will soon have more than enough cars on its hands--and it wouldn't be a shock for the  to scrap their 600' plans without fair warning.

It will also be interesting to see the 5-car sets running.

Just now, RR503 said:

They're running all trains local this weekend -- CBTC work. 

Oh, gotcha!

This morning I was on an  train that stopped at Steinway Street. I'm not a frequent rider of the  but does this frequently happen? There was no special announcement. Also, if I recall correctly, the  was stopping there as well, which to my knowledge, only happens late nights?

Was just on R160 #8625-8628 on the  tonight. (I didn’t get the numbers of the other set in the consist.) If it is indeed the last R160 at 207th, there’s not long before it’s transferred to ENY.

13 minutes ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:

The plan is for the A is to get the r179's, and the C become full length r46's. 

Let's see what happens. The 10 car trains are delayed and  the  r179's are different from the r160, so A/C train conductors need to learn how to operate these cars as well as the crews/yard. That's why the C has a few 8 car r179's and we can't rule out the possibility of the 10 car r179's going to the C once the r211's are in service.

That makes sense. Based on the wording of earlier comments, I wasn’t sure if the 5-car R179s were NOT to be on the  in the future.

Is it somehow more likely that the  would receive the 5-car R179s than the ? I'm wondering why it's been said that the 4-car sets are testing on the , but that the will become full-length and the  may get the 5-car sets.