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Enjineer

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  1. An R160 F train at Coney Island-Stillwell Av
  2. An R142 2 train at 174 St
  3. Saw the set today at Jay St – caught me by surprise. Hopefully the snow won't affect anything tomorrow and it can finish out the 30 days with no hitches.
  4. Totally forgot about that. It threw me for a loop since it was just about 1 PM when I saw it arriving at East 180th.
  5. Saw an R142A on the today! It went express from E 180 St to Pelham Parkway, and it then came back down out of service. Not sure how/why it ended up on the , but I did manage to grab a photo of it:
  6. I assume for a minor issue like that caused by a passenger they just keep the train in service until it's scheduled to go back to the yard as to not reset the 30-day clock.
  7. Why wouldn't it is my question. With the 10-car R179s in service on the , it'd free up a lot of R46 trainsets for use on the (13 assuming every 46 that could be moved out by a 179 is moved), which is just about 2/3 of the fleet. I'd think a surplus of 32s could also allow for 10-car sets to then run, right?
  8. Can confirmed not OOS, someone from Discord posted this vid of it leaving Utica – clearly with passengers. Carry on, everyone, and here's to a hopefully incident-free 30-day test!
  9. Thanks! The biggest issue for me likely would be finding a place in my room to put the lamp, or figure out some sort of mount to place it on. I'll definitely post here if I can get a bulb inside and have it lit up well, as I'm sure it'd be really cool to have it look like a nice authentic entrance lamp. Just wondering, I assume if I did want to use a bulb that they would use that it'd be easy to run it off of standard household current?
  10. IIRC there are no plans to scrap them, as you said, just in case they are needed. I'm pretty sure nothing will be getting scrapped until the 211s show up.
  11. I was just at Broadway Junction last Thursday, and I saw multiple sets of 42s. IIRC they moved to Pitkin and then back to ENY – or some are at Pitkin and some are at ENY
  12. Well the 42s have yet to be reassigned somewhere outside of ENY, but the 32s are still definitely good to help bolster service. The R179s are just eliminating the fleet shortage; scrapping those cars now and possibly recreating that problem isn't a great idea – considering the pilot 211 is slated to arrive next year it's not like the R32s would be running for another decade, anyways.
  13. Very nice, so when all is said and done the C will be half R179s. Nice.
  14. Can't say they don't sound nice, though!
  15. Speaking of which, does anyone know how much of the C's fleet now is made up of R179s? I know the C has, what, 18 sets assigned to it, so the 179s have to be nearing half of that by now
  16. Awesome, we've crossed the 3200 mark! Seems like every week or so now a new 179 is going into service on the C
  17. I know what you mean. ONIX and the R179's MITRAC have a harsher tone, while the older MITRAC 1580c inverters have a more soft tone. All I was saying is Alstom isn't exclusively harder sounds, for example this is Alstom propulsion, and even other ONIX systems in this video aren't like the R142s and R160s
  18. The thing is the Bombardier trains are all using MITRAC, which is one of their widespread products. ONIX, however, doesn't seem to be produced by Alstom anymore, so it'll be interesting to see how a decade and a half makes a difference in terms of propulsion style.
  19. Gotcha. Will there be any elevators to the express platform at some point (or downtown local, either?). Seems like it was an opportunistic (though not in a bad way) choice as that whole corner is totally under construction because of the new apartment building, so it's logical they'd add an elevator when they had the chance without causing any surface disruption.
  20. My mom just sent me a photo on her way home from work – we've seen the shaft for a while, but 86th on the 4/5/6 is getting an elevator! I only saw a shaft from street level, on the northbound side, as they're building a new building on the northeast corner, so it may be northbound only (and not sure if it'll serve both the local and express platforms, or just the local one). Still, it's something!
  21. They confirmed they will have an actual card further into the rollout. To start it'll be via phones, but by the time they actually phase out the MetroCard in 2022/2023, they'll have an OMNY card for those who might not want to/can't use a phone to pay.
  22. If you're referring to knowing exactly your balance, I'd guess with a phone payment app (e.g. Apple Pay/Wallet/Android Pay/whatever you want) you'd be able to see, manage, and probably refill your balance on the go. While using an eventual OMNY card might not allow it, the general assumption is that people will use their phones for most of the payments anyways, and cards will be less common. In that regard, I think that opens up more possibilities than both tokens and the MetroCard, since you could easily manage your payments anywhere via your phone.
  23. RFID was old news by the time this was happening. Cards lost support for it and phones didn't incorporate the tech.
  24. IIRC those were RFID readers, for a trial program which used credit cards. This is NFC, which both new cards as well as phones can use for payment.
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