Enjineer

14 hours ago, Kamen Rider said:

If they want to complete their stated goal of “system wide by the end of 2020” they need to bring an average of about 7 new stations online each week for the next 14 months.

Given how fast they installed them at 96th (quite literally put the mounts in overnight, all the turnstiles were done by the day after some mounts first appeared), it seems like it's not challenging installation. I assume the readers themselves are an even faster process to put on top of the mounts. They may also then just install readers/mounts in waves, and enable them in a similar manner (versus station by station)

2 hours ago, Future ENY OP said:

Copy. If you are in the area by 86th. Get a quick check. I was there about 3 weeks ago and it wasn’t there yet. 

86th still doesn't have them. I take the  one stop from 96th to 86th every day on the way home so I can get a seat on the M86 since a lot of people always get off at Lex. I'll be sure to post when 86th does get the readers. Oh, and here's 96th:

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1 hour ago, Future ENY OP said:

Hopefully 86th and Lex should be next on the list along with 96th

96th Street already has the mounts installed. I'll grab a pic on the way home from school in about two hours

Just last week I got a brand new camera, so I wanted to test it out underground. Enjoy the photos! 

Enjoy these photos and videos of Metro-North at Botanical Garden station. 

On my school's Spirit Day trip, I was able to make my way down to a dock alongside the Hudson and catch some trains on both sides of the water. Enjoy this short video featuring CSX and Metro-North, as well as photos with my new camera of rail on both sides of the river. 

Back at the end of June, I went back to Mineola with my friend. Enjoy! 

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My first time fanning the Main Line back in June – 7 hours of action at Mineola, from about 12:30 PM to 7:30 PM, capturing almost every train in that time period. Enjoy! 

Enjoy this ride on the Brighton Express taken from the front of the BU Gate Cars as part of the 2019 Parade of Trains. 

Despite their age, the Arnines really showed off at the Parade of Trains, reaching ~45 MPH on the express run from Kings Highway to Brighton Beach. Enjoy! 

Enjoy this short jaunt on the R33 World's Fair from the Parade of Trains! More photos and videos to follow soon! 

Went up to Woodlawn with a couple of friends to catch the tail end of the evening rush. Enjoy!

Enjoy this ride to Hicksville aboard peak express 1258 on the M9

Just after arriving at the station, I was able to catch TGC3 heading south on the express track. Enjoy! 

2 minutes ago, BM5 via Woodhaven said:

I would mainly attribute that to the weekend headways. Most trains run less frequently on weekends compared to several years ago.

 I thought that was attributed to the large amount of service disruptions on weekends – if it was a pain to get somewhere, people chose to use a different transit method, or simply stay home.

6 minutes ago, B35 via Church said:

More power to those that do (and/or have to) use the subway on the weekend, because I flat out refuse

Also to note is how weekend ridership fell much more than weekday ridership – but appears to be rising faster than weekday ridership! I wonder if this is just simply a baseline of subway ridership at this point in time (as in, unless things were to suddenly get much worse, those who chose to leave the subway already left, and more aren't leaving), or if the MTA's improvements over the last year (especially Save Safe Seconds and the like) have actually begun to draw people back into the system.

Just a little something that I've been sitting on since June. Enjoy! 

After riding the M9 on train 1258, I was able to catch it leaving Hicksville to deadhead back to Hillside. Enjoy! 

3 hours ago, Union Tpke said:

Anyway, it would be much better to accelerate CBTC, to fix bottlenecks like Nostrand, Astoria, etc.

 

Astoria CBTC is part of the Capital Plan, though!

Here we see the first day of  service, with the two rush hour trains passing Smith-9th Streets. Enjoy! 

The first express was signed as a normal , though it said Culver Express 

The second express was properly signed as a

A short clip of two GE Arrow III EMUs at Newark-Broad Street, taken after a day at Mountain Station on August 20th, 2019. Enjoy! 

While out walking in Queens, it started to rain, so I hopped on the . I then went to 90 St-Elmhurst Av, where I caught a few trains in the rain. Enjoy the photos and videos from during the storm! 

Photos are in this Imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/EVT6p6V

2 hours ago, VIP said:

They’ve canned the yellow looped bars especially after numerous complaints from car cleaners and RCI’s that the paint chipping is out of hand.

I mean, I don't see why it matters if they're yellow or not. Considering the other stanchions and poles in subway cars are already steel(?), it makes sense to just not paint them and have them blend in with the existing handholds.

Enjoy these photos and videos from Forest Hills, taken Sunday, August 4th. 

Gregg T. spotted!

On 8/1/2019 at 9:36 PM, New Flyer Xcelsior said:

No, I mean railfanning thst you can get to easily from the city, whether it be by bus, subway, MNR, LIRR, NJT, PATH, whatever.

LIRR Main Line is quite nice, especially stops like Mineola and New Hyde Park. While I haven't been yet, I think the NJT/Amtrak NEC Line is also quite good, especially around Northern NJ where trains still run quite fast (North Elizabeth, Rahway, etc.)