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So by the time all the 4-car sets are delivered, the will be more than half R179? Nice!

How many total does that make for the ? It's gotta be getting close to half the C's fleet by now...

Radiolab from WNYC did a story about the sound of the R142's inverters, and how it sounds like "Somewhere" from West Side Story. The specific part of the show begins at about 55 minutes in; it's about 20 minutes long. It's a good listen, and I really enjoyed the piece https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/asking-another-friend

Can't personally verify, but I did see someone on Instagram mourning the loss of the car with attached photos of it being taken from the store.

My dad got these for me when the M86 was being converted to an SBS route. The adhesive has done some damage to the machine wrap but it's still a neat item to have, I think.

I figured as much, but I was just wondering how soon is soon. Given that you said they're almost done with the 4-car sets, then I assume it shouldn't be too much longer until the 10-car sets begin to show up on property...and then it's only a matter of time until the starts to get a whole lot more interesting!

So will they then soon begin delivering more 10-car trains? Or will they wait until the 8-car deliveries are completed first? Or might they deliver them at the same time?

To a degree it makes it immediately stand out – it's big and red, and has a giant "STOP" written on it. Reminds me of the new fare evasion ones they've put up all over fare controls around the system

Yep, someone over on r/nyc who's in production said they're frantically trying to get this car back because it's definitely not supposed to be in service with the prop signs.

Saw this today at Jay St-MetroTech! I've seen it before but wasn't able to get a photo when I did.

Probably they'll stay where they are now. I don't think they ever were slated to be assigned elsewhere than the A/C/J/Z. The A/C might also get 211s since there are still 46s there.

I once was on an R42 that had an operator in training, and I overheard the supervisor explaining that they should always use the highest power level when leaving a station, even with speed restrictions, and only cut/lower power upon nearing that limit. Also, they may have adjusted the acceleration curves on the NTTs to be faster or slower

They weren't found "in the East River tunnel" IIRC they got dragged maybe 200-300 feet down the tunnel, which in terms of an accelerating train is not that far – it's like half a train length. If the emergency brakes got set off as they were noticed being dragged, depending on their location along the train that's entirely plausible for where the train might have stopped. Besides, it was a freak accident by all accounts. It's not like you hear about that happening every week.

Anything that would make them unable to get off the train safely or by themselves. Could be someone gets dizzy, could be someone vomiting (like, really shooting chunks), or could be something far worse like a heart attack or seizure.

Ah, my bad! I never even really noticed the windshields were that tinted, but that's pretty logical that they'd do it to reduce glare. Whoops!

Privacy and likely security as well. You often see operators putting their jackets or even newspaper over the windows for further privacy.

Seriously, you don't think about sick passengers delaying things until you see it happen. I got to 74 St-Broadway, and heard someone had passed out on the platform, and saw a man unresponsive very close to the platform edge, with people surrounding him, including the C/R. Someone started to do CPR, and after maybe 10 minutes, EMS arrived and took him away, but service was already well past screwed by then, as it was the 7 during rush hour. Still, it made me realize that sick passenger could be anything from someone who just puked all over a car to someone who might be having a stroke or a heart attack and needs urgent medical attention. Quite possibly he might've not made it in the end; I'm not sure, but I can say that taking him all the way to Hudson Yards would not have been the right course of action, as you suggested they should do.

Slow down there, you might wanna take off your tinfoil hat...

I would think a Shuttle program would be like that by default. It would simply announce the next stop at each end, and the exterior signs likely would read something like "42 St Shuttle - Grand Central - Times Square"

For some reason I've seen the ring both out on test R179s, but also in-service trains as well. They usually seem to go back on – maybe it goes off if the C/R changes the FIND mid-route?