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It ain't a good look for the 211s and the MTA either. I was watching another video and it seems like the entire consist is riddled with flats. Taking a page out of the SIR 44 playbook...

Definitely putting the spares to good use on the C, some of those Pitkin 46s deserve some time in the shop....

IIRC "CENT PARK W LCL" has been a thing on the 46s for s few years, yeah Think it came about when the MTA was updating the 46s with SAS codes, they did a bunch of stuff outside of that.

As far as I know it was a movie train. Recently they've had R46 movie trains on the IND half of Culver for something (same consist, signed as K or V)

By chance, does anyone have the official PDFs of the subway map from between 1998 through 2000? I've tried the wayback machine and I've had no luck.

Not my photo, but it appears that 1896-1900 are receiving SMS, so it'll probably reenter service once its done. Speaking of SMS, 207th has been sloppy with the SMS program for the 240th fleet in terms of appearance, with some cars receiving partial bulkhead repaint jobs (pantograph gates left untouched with no paint, thus still black with tunnel dust)

Thanks for the explanation! While reading your response, I've found three more designations that have stumped me: In this 1988 photo, 1499 is seen here with a green dot. To my knowledge, there were no transverse cabs since OPTO didn't exist back in 1988. In this 2009 photo, 1970 has white circles on its yard sticker. From other pictures I've seen from around this timeframe, 1960 and 2040 were other cars that received this white dot. In this photo, 2218 has a light blue dot next to its numberplate. Numerous cars out of 240 received this blue dot.

I've been looking into the yard stickers + other designations that the has used on the R62A fleet over the years and I've generally been successful at finding out what certain stickers meant. However, there are two designations that have stumped me: In this picture of 1954, I know that it was Livonia based, but that orange diamond in the sticker confuses me. It can't be the brake valve modification since that happened later on when the car was based out of Corona, and not all of the Livonia singles received that orange diamond. In this photo from the early 90s, both 1889 and 1805 have a green dot. Multiple Pelham cars received the green dots inside their sticker (at least seven of them), but again, not all units received them. If anyone has an idea on what the green dot and orange diamond mean, help would be appreciated.

On another note, theres a mixed 68/A train on N (5200-5198/2858-56). 2858 has received upgraded interior lighting recently.

IIRC those 46s have been like that since February. On that note, a 4 car Concourse 68 set (2560-63) has received LED lighting as well. And then of course we have the 4 or 5 68/As based out of Coney that have the lighting upgrades too.

They did add ESA, but in a really tacky fashion (they added LIRR at GCT but didn't add the rail line going across the East River at 63 St) Also yeah the map def needs to go thru a revamp. Personally I prefer the original version of the map published in the 80s and early 90s.

Unrelated: I find it extremely annoying that the TA hasn't updated the online subway map to reflect that fact that JZ skip stop service in Queens is suspended for a long time, not to mention the long term shutdown of the 14 st transfer passage....

IIRC thats where the acceptance facility will be located for the incoming 211 deliveries

Its on the only ex Shuttle set that the 6 has: 1940-52-23-27-31 (iirc), with 1931 having the reading and 1923 being the misfit with circle/diamond LED.

If the three current shuttles (42 St, Rock Park, Franklin Av) are internally referred to as three different routes (0, H, S), then what were the Grand St, 6th Avenue, and 63 St-Broadway shuttles internally designated as?

BX5 has the weekend extension to Bay Plaza Mall. Q22 and Q35 have the summertime routing via the Jacob Riis Park Bath House. Q22 also has a branch to B116 St ferry (in the ferry direction only; no service to either Far Rock or Roxbury from the ferry). Q37 is a funny quirk however. On timetables, there are two branches: the Q37 and the Q37B. Q37B skips the casino while Q37 stops there. Bus signage also reflects this. On BUSTIME however, each branch simply appear as "Q37" with the only difference being "via Aqueduct" added for one of the routes.

When the TA did that whole front transplant onto Orion V (ex-BL) 133, what former NYCT O5 was the new front taken from?

This is something that I've noticed over the years: Why don't the NYCT express timetables not follow the BusCo format and list the pickup/dropoff stops on their own page as compared to cramming it all onto the route maps?

Apparently the MTA thinks that half of Nassau County is no mans land as seen on the Queens borough bus map. Also, it seems as of this error was never corrected as it was also found on the 2003 borough bus map! Image

They removed the NYCT fareboxes, and I am assuming that once they arrive at ECH, they will put BusCo fareboxes in them because they are going into passenger service for BusCo instead of going for scrap.

What were these things used for? I vaguely remember seeing them on NYCT buses (and never any BusCo buses), and they were removed from almost all of the fleet (ik 2910 has one still). Anything that NYCT had that was built before the Orion VII Gen 2+ seems to have had these installed. http://web.mta.info/nyct/materiel/collectsales/pdfs/mc12072.pdf

IIRC theres an car underpass for Grand Concourse and it goes under Fordham Road. The underpass would have dipped into the subway area, so the downtown local and half of the downtown platform peels off and goes around the underpass and the rest of the station veers in the other direction hence the wall dividing the platform and the wide downtown platform.

Some of the Alston 160s have a door motor squeaking sound as well - dunno if its related. Its something I’ve occasionally heard in the last 4-ish years

Didn’t this happen with College Point’s 1998-99 Orion V CNGs lol?