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R211Ss spotted in St George

52 minutes ago, shiznit1987 said:

What are my chances of catching an R211 on the weekend? I was thinking of getting out there this Sunday but I don't want to waste my time...

Pretty good chances I’d say, they’re about 1 in 3 of the A fleet needed. Personally when I went to Rockaway Blvd, first time I saw 2 R211s head towards the Rockaways before my train came (an R46) and saw 2 more getting uptown before I got off at Cortlandt. Second time, this weekend with work being done on Fulton express the first train was an R211.

3 minutes ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:

Let's not get excited.

The fact that the open gangway trains are only going to run on a subway line that doesn't have high ridership is a huge setback and defeats the purpose of having open gangway trains.

It is also an indication that moving forward the MTA will only stick to purchasing standard trains.

14 minutes ago, Transit Fans said:

That’s what I was telling many people in YouTube about the C. Yep you are correct they don’t have enough ridership. It would make sense if it goes to either the A E or F since doesn’t lines have the highest ridership. 

Let’s take a step back here guys, they never said it’d stay on the C, it’s just being tested there for now. We still don’t know much of anything regarding it’s future car assignments.

3 minutes ago, Vulturious said:

https://new.mta.info/document/131306

If all is done optimally (let's be real, it won't), we could potentially see SAS Phase 2 done in the next 6 years or so.

Praying I’ll be alive to see the full project be finished right now

1 hour ago, Chris89292 said:

We don’t need platform doors in the subway system, this is MTA not London Underground 

We do actually need it in some stations, it's just that the infrastructure won't allow it. 

2 hours ago, R142A-6-Train said:

I'm pretty sure the R268s will be 75-Footers. Am I right?

We’re not sure about anything besides what it’s replacing yet, but the reasonable answer would be no since as far as we can see, the MTA wants everything to be as standardized as possible. Examples: R143, R160, R179, R211 are all 60 feet and can run on the Myrtle, Jamaica, and Canarsie lines since they’re short enough to not clip other trains, and they can have cars removed from their sets to put them into passenger service on the mentioned lines. We won’t see the MTA experiment for a while…

53 minutes ago, Chris89292 said:

Could it be a first CBTC converted R142 set??

I see shattered glass in the door window so I think it’s there because it was vandalized, but doesn’t the A-Division have their own yards for that?

would you look at that. 
https://twitter.com/julestrainman/status/1745151078872580116

MTA starting the year strong eh? It hasn’t even been a month…

Well, with the recent 7th Avenue derailment I’ve seen some talking about replacing the IRT signals with CBTC. Opinions?

On 12/13/2023 at 9:34 PM, ABCDEFGJLMNQRSSSWZ said:

After so many bad experiences, I've become increasingly a supporter of bifurcating the  such that one  runs from Whitehall St South Ferry - Forest Hills, and the other  runs from Canal St (on Nassau Line) to Bay Ridge 95 St. I think part of the reason  has spotty headways is because there are too many merges and Chokepoints. This about it:

1. Forest Hills is not a great Terminal Station. Especially before when it was shared with  things could get backed up

2. Merging from 60th St tunnel onto QBLVD with . 60th St tunnel has 3 services, and the whole system of merging onto QBLVD with the  is pretty complex and notorious for causing backups, especially cause in normal times, the  itself also has to deal with the , and the  has to deal with the .

3.  train crossover at 34th St. Can easily force an  train to wait a couple extra minutes.

4.  terminating at Whitehall St. There have been multiples times I've been in a northbound  waiting for the  to leave (I don't understand why it can't just enter the station cause  only uses middle track to terminate), but can make the  wait like 5 minutes.

5. DeKalb Junction. Even though in normal service the  is technically grade-separated from everything else, it's still a slow junction and often times  will run local which adds another merge point

All this adds up to quite a lot of opportunities to build up service gaps that are hard to recover from.

So, just bring back the  and ?

Did early EMUs and steam trains not pass eachother often on the LIRR? It’s pretty difficult trying to find any pictures of it happening

Does the  usually display "CTRL PARK W LCL" because I just noticed it on an R46 and I feel like it wasn't always there

On 11/14/2023 at 1:20 AM, Wallyhorse said:

This is where if the is 8-car trains, I would look to have it run 168-Broadway Junction on the  where it would be an alternative to transferring from the to the at 14th and back to the at Broadway Junction.   

How?

I'm on 4139 right now and not only is it smooth, but she's quiet too

1 hour ago, MTA Researcher said:

What about  accessing a yard?

Funny part is that’s the reason the MTA changed the ‘s north terminal in the first place

17 hours ago, ABCDEFGJLMNQRSSSWZ said:

I always think of an alternate reality where Brooklyn grew to be much denser and Fulton St was somewhat akin to Queens Blvd. A new tunnel in Manhattan would've needed to have been built, my guess is using the existing Court St station. It's just weird to think how both IND Fulton St line and IND QBLVD line are both quad-tracked IND lines in the outer-boroughs, yet they've diverged so much in terms of ridership.

 

So much of the Fulton St line feels like an errie liminal space

Nostrand Avenue as backrooms level 1940 when

1 hour ago, zacster said:

Yea, but did something else happen?

the rain might have made her slide and that wheel could have been the only one to not regain traction

1 hour ago, Kamen Rider said:

I checked with the dispatcher as I was leaving for the day, there is some sort of issue. Never got a straight answer as to what it actually is, but then again, I just wanted to confirm something was up. 
 

as of right now, dither chatter was moving more ENY 160s to the Charlie to free up R46s for A service.

 

and before any of you ask, we are not returning any older cars to service.

And now we wait for people to disregard your last sentence and start going “OH MY GOD GUYS GATE CARS ARE COMING BACK TO ENY!!!!!!!!!!!!” Lmao

I wanted to catch the R211 later so does anyone have the NYCT tracking server?

27 minutes ago, jon2305 said:

It was probably a last minute thing, so maybe they forget to change the sign.

Doesn’t the rollsign change automatically when the code is put in?

1 hour ago, trainfan22 said:

I just realized, the Staten Island R211s will be testing on SIR during wet leaf season, none of the tech train car classes prior to the R211 likes rain/snow/wet leaves on rails so I wonder how the R211s will handle slip n slide on the wet leafs on the rails.

 

 

The SI R44s stayed having flat wheels due to leaf season in the fall and early winter. I wonder how the R211s will handle those conditions.

Part of making the R211s adhere to FRA regulations must have been throwing a fan onto the bogey lol 

1 hour ago, Calvin said:

At this time, 100-104 are heading straight to Staten Island. Their destination: Clifton Yard meeting the R44s there. 

Now we wait for Clifton to learn how to maintain them, then they’ll be in service, right? Or do they have to go through the 30 day testing like the R211As did

26 minutes ago, FLX9304 said:

I’ve been on that line longer than you have. And I’m not your bro

Why are you going on about catenary then. If you’ve been using the SIR then you should know what it uses for power 💀 

and besides, Kawasaki slapped catenary equipment onto an R62 for testing, I’m sure they could come up with something for the R211s if they were actually using it

3 hours ago, FLX9304 said:

Now hear me out on this: the previous NTTs, the R160s and the R179s are not equipped for railroading. They wouldn’t even survive on railroad service if they were to be put on it. Most areas require canatary for overhead power. Both R160s and R179s would cost an extra $5K to put 2 over the car power and feeders to power them. No third rail shoes. For non electrical railroads, the R160s and R179s will have to put special trucks with one square box on top of A cars, while B cars lose ALL propulsions. The B cars would be “trailers”. 

What the hell

bro doesn’t know what he’s talking about

the SIR runs on third rail just like the rest of the system and I’m pretty sure I can still hear propulsion coming from the R44 B cars, along with the fact that it’s mostly flat, I’m sure the R160s and/or R179s could easily handle their B cars turned into trailers

I bet you haven’t even been to SI before 💀 

On 9/27/2023 at 12:12 PM, Ale188 said:

News flash: We are over 1/5 done with the base order. We are about 22% done with it, so here is my diagram to prove so:

Cars in service:

R211A: 4060-4099, 4110-4129, 60 cars or 6 10-car sets

Total number of cars in service: 60

Deliveries: Green text = Completed

R211A: 4060-4154, 95 cars or 9 10-car sets and 1 5-car set

R211T: 4040-4059, 20 cars or 2 10-car sets 

R211S: 100-104, 1 5-car set

Total number of cars delivered: 120

Cool, It's just growing!

Is the R211S going to test on the SIR before they send any more?