JustTheSIR

On 7/1/2023 at 4:54 PM, BenTheMiner said:

(R143)

(R179)

Thank you very much!

Can I have a blank version of every NTT exterior display you have, or at least just the R160 and R142

8 hours ago, ABCDEFGJLMNQRSSSWZ said:

Ik cars are usually referred to as "she", so do we also refer to NYC subway cars as "she"? Does it depend upon the model?

I’m not sure if you would refer to them as “she” or “her” since they aren’t really personalized

4 hours ago, Kamen Rider said:

Someone had the 1990 Christopher Walken movie “King of New York” on. Climax of the movie takes place on a 7 train signed up as Main to 34th street (admittedly singed for Penn station)…

 

feels like they accidentally predicted the 7 west side extension 

Wasn’t the extension planned for a while?

5 hours ago, BenTheMiner said:

That's because of the window size on the R211. You can't really adjust it that much without it becoming weird.

I’m aware but you can’t get the colored route bullet on the other NTTs.

1 hour ago, BenTheMiner said:

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by this.

The R211 exterior LED displays are really short compared to the other NTTs, so I was wondering if you could do an R211 exterior LED display but make it as long as the other NTT exterior displays

7 minutes ago, trainfan22 said:

Let's say option 2 is 211As and the T's "fail" their test... would the two open gangway sets be put in storage and rot in yards for many years like the R110s were? 

 

 

 

I’d say they run them as long as they can on a shuttle like the BMT Bluebirds or just for special occasions like another anniversary, just to show the difference between X years of rolling stock

Question about a request:

would it be possible to have an R211 exterior display but stretched to be as long as the ones on R160s and R179s

3 hours ago, Fan Railer said:

that's under the assumption there wasn't another clock reset that we don't know about lol.

Imagine on the last day just before it reaches the terminal on the last run it has another propulsion problem

10 minutes ago, trainfan22 said:

R42 final run was in the middle of an weekday on a cold February day and was very crowded. I'm pretty sure a lot of teenage railfans cut school to ride it and will do so tomorrow. 

 

 

 

Disclaimer: I don't agree with younger railfans cutting school.

 

Some middle schools have 6, 7, and part of 8th grade out because 8th grade regents today and tomorrow, so I doubt a lot of those kids are gonna be skipping

7 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

And where does it say that...

Well, they’re working on the tracks somewhere between 57th and Lex/63rd

49 minutes ago, trainfan22 said:

The BMT Standards will be running in passenger service between Kings Highway and 18th Ave on the line from 11:30AM to 2PM tomorrow. Most likely going back and forth on the express track.

 

Why? Is it some sort of special event or something?

edit: I didn’t see the link. It’s pretty epic though

4 minutes ago, Vulturious said:

From what I hear, SIR programming is going to be on all R211's (that's including the R211A/T's) which are replacing the  programming.

Now that’s sexy

11 hours ago, Chris89292 said:

The air pollution makes the image look awesome

“The MTA, bringing you shit but consistent service even in a post-apocalyptic society”

1 hour ago, Kamen Rider said:

Plug doors are not going to be happening any time soon. Mindset of the people who design them is pocket doors are safer. 
 

when a door is manually locked out, a physical metal bar that is part of the key slot drops into place directly behind the panel, physically preventing it from moving.

for a plug door to have a similar option, induces failure points the designers are not comfortable with.

let’s say a train with plug style doors has a car that is isolated due to someone vomiting all over the place…

train pulls into a crowed station. People see the empty car and just need to step on the bar to unlock the door…

 

this means such a lockout needs to be within the track, meaning that it’s connection to cut out keyhole adds points where the link could break

 

all for the sake of window size.

Couldn’t it also Injure someone by catching their skin between the door and car body, especially on lines like Lexington where platforms are sometimes packed to the brim?

13 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

They started removing the end flip-up seats on the A cars on R142's out of 239th St.

Why? Are operators uncomfortable or do people complain that it takes up space?

Does anyone know what happened at 63rd Drive? I saw 2 trains get short turned at Roosevelt Avenue because of it. The second operator on an R train said that there was debris on the local and express tracks so they couldn’t continue at all, delayed me by about a half hour and ruined my perfect transfer streak

Could an MTA employee give some insight

22 hours ago, Kamen Rider said:

does the phrase “Beta testing” mean anything on this site? 
 

First of all, The indicators are not part of the door control system. That is still in the hands of the crew.

 

if it had to hazard a guess, they are pre-programmed based on what route program in entered into announcement system. And those things are not as simple as you guys might think they are. 

Well, would it being integrated into the 8th Avenue CBTC project make it any easier, like CBTC telling the train which track it’s going on at the terminal, or in the case of a G.O.?

1 hour ago, Kamen Rider said:

It will be back on the road when Car Equipment and the Kawasaki techs say it's ready. 

 

Could you guys, like, just accept that sometimes there are things we're not supposed to share, even if we knew. Which we don't anyway, but that's beside the point. Last time I checked no one from DCE hangs out here on a regular basis, you just have us RTO folks, and last time I checked, the nearest one of us to that train when it all went wrong was me, and I was a few miles away working a on D train. 

So we do not know exactly what happened. We know that it was a propulsion system issue and in theory, that could have been anything, up to and including something that damaged the train, but was not caused by the train.
 

What happened to the R211 pilot set? I’ve heard it’s been out of service due to propulsion problems but damage? I thought it just stalled out on a grade and they’re finding out why

3 hours ago, Q44 SBS said:

I have two questions, were the R32’s design based on the R30? What was it like riding the R30? I never got the chance to ride any subway cars that were around before I was born. Since I was born in ‘95, some subway cars were already retired before my time. However, I do remember riding the Redbirds on the  , and  but I had no idea that B division had their own version of the Redbirds. I did spent the time on nycsubway.org reading They Moved The Millions and found it interesting about every single design of the subway cars (pre R-68). I was honestly quite annoyed that the current NTT fleet all look alike but after reading They Moved The Million, I realized that the transit agency has been doing this for decades. Here’s the way I look at it:

Subway Cars Following The R1 Design

• R4, R6, R7, R9, and R10 with few minor changes to the exterior and interior.
• Smaller version of the R10 designed for the A division called the R12 and R14.
• R15 looks similar to R12 but with a major facelift, having an arch roof design.
• R16 basically a R15 but for the B division.
• R17 basically a R16 but for the A division.
• R21 was just an updated version of the R17.
• R22 similar to the R21 but with few minor changes.
• R26 looks similar to R22.
• R27, a upgraded version of the R16 with few modifications.
• R28 basically an updated R26.
• R29 is just an updated R28 model.
• R30 is identical to the R27.
• R32’s design looks like the R30.
• R38 looks similar to the R32.
• R33 is just a updated model of R29.
• R36 looks similar to R33 but with a few changes.

The R36 was a married pair version of the R3s

23 minutes ago, ABCDEFGJLMNQRSSSWZ said:

Are you opening the most recent version. If your link is to an old version perhaps it doesn't work anymore.

I can still open it, just, instead of a lock there’s a hazard symbol next to the url at the top of the page

Why am I getting an error saying Vanshnookenraggen’s safety certification is invalid when I try to open the track map?

2 hours ago, Kamen Rider said:

Coney Island has R68s and R68As... how often do you see them mixed?

I mean, don’t the R68s and R68As have completely different brakes and propulsion? That’s the idea, the R211s and R211Ts shouldn’t, and should able to be assembled into a consist without any problems

1 minute ago, ABCDEFGJLMNQRSSSWZ said:

It's a tough situtation cause 63rd generally doesn't have great transfer access and QBLVD express customers would be furious at the loss of the . It also might put too much of a burden on the  as it'd likely be heavily favored over the . Overall, Queens Blvd is a patchwork of connections to Manhattan cause the IND cut corners when the line was originally built and the MTA again when they were doing the never finished Super-Express Project.

I meant to say 36th st, as that’s where the   Currently merges with the , but my point still stands, you wouldn’t get much more service out of that as more switching between stations is probably going to be slower than setting switches at stations…

for your point about the E, yes, people would be very annoyed, but what about an infill station on the 63rd st line