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These are the upgrades that are or were planned for the R142/142As...

R46 5901 and the other three cars in its set now have LED lighting, first time seeing Pikin R46s refitted with these lights.

This post reminds me of the hiking stop on the Hudson Line "Brakeneck Ridge", only one door opens at that stop

7581 is on the M4, is this the first day of XD40s on MTV routes? It has MTV stickers if anybody wondering.

Thanks to G.Os over the past couple of years, technically it's been possible to ride R46 on the line trackage over the years. Brighton Express - via Brighton G.O 6th Ave - via 6th Ave G.O Concourse - to 205th G.O Under normal circumstances, one would be able to ride between Propect Park - DeKalb on the and CPW on the Except for 47th-50th - 59th Street, I ridden an R46 over 98 percent of the line route without officially riding an R46 train.

There's an reddit thread about this, but it hasn’t had an update in a while. Otherwise, there's no tracker for subway cars for the public like there is for the buses. Best bet is to wait at Atlantic Ave until it shows up, or you can ask the NYCT twitter page.

line crews often turn off the HVAC when they have to make manual announcements, once their finished, they turn the HVAC back on.

The reason the ran 10 car trains in the 90s is because the R33WF singles did not have A/C while the married pair R36WF did. This was only done during the summer, the ran 11 car trains the rest of the year. They did not want to run an fleet not equipped with A/C in the 90s. Towards the end of the R33/36 WF service life's in the early 2000s they had no choice but to run the 33WF singles during the Summer because ridership was so high.

Yeah, 239th street Yard fleet runs on the

If inside you mean the interior it depends on what yard the cars are based out of. 239th R142s interior are kinda raggedy compared to Jerome and E180th and the R160s interior at ENY are horrible compared to Jamaica. R143s interior are bad because of the yard they are based out of. Also someone keeps vandalizing the interior of the ENY fleet with permanent marker writings on the ceiling, which they cover up with blue sheet paper which does'nt match the rest of the interior color wise. They even vandalized one of the R179 cars.

Bus service that pass though Jamaica Queens must be a mess right now due to a cop being shot in the area. In relevance to this forum, the cop was responding to a fight on a bus (bus driver flagged the cop down due to two riders fighting over an seat).

I do. I think the 1996 batch was the last RTS batch to have air starters. I wonder if they kept them until retirement.

Had an nice ride on the 3:01 NEC express to Trenton hauled ass on the straightaway. Those 3900 expresses are some of the best express commuter rail runs to fan in the region. However my train back to NY is 15 to 20 minutes late due to mechanical problems. I hope my return train is an Arrow 3, train I took here was MLV - ALP consist.

Software related activities that do damage to the train information? Huh? Yes, some of these younger railfans can be a problem but IMO yall is starting to be ridiculous about their activities.

There is an 12 - 9 at Jay Street which suspended service on portions of the line, for those looking for the R211. A is suspended between Broadway Junction and WTC.

New Haven line = Red signs Hudson Line = Green signs The Harlem line uses Blue signs that's why the other two lines don't.

M8s are used in CT, you must be talking about Danbury & Waterbury branches. They aren't used there cause those branches aren't electrified. Same applies for the Harlem line between Southeast and Wassic, that part of the line isn't electrified so MUs can't go there. M7 can't run in CT cause the New Haven line in CT uses overhead wire as an power source (M7s are 3rd rail only). M9s don't run in Upper NY cause Metro North doesn't have any M9s.

If the R211 encounter an issue a few trainsets into its order, they would just bring back R46s in storage to replace the sidelined R211s. They won't send the R46s straight to scrap, they'll be in storage for a little while then as more R211s hit service the R46s will gradually be scrapped. This is how it was done with the cars the R142/142A and R160s replaced. AFAIK they are still sending R32s to scrap, eventually only the garbage train units and museum cars will be the only R32s left.

There's an live update thread on NYC Rail Reddit mentioning the whereabouts of the R211 while its in service.

I rode it, it's a nice train but man the reduced seating.... benches only seat about three ppl comfortably, four or five ppl if you squeeze in there. I heard regular riders, not railfans saying "well where you gonna sit" "Where's the seats" Other than that the train got positive responses from the riders from what I saw. My only issue with the cars, otherwise they are very nice, smooth ride and they accelerate fast. I like the fact that the wall ads are all digital, that's my favorite thing about the R211 for now. Also the headlights on these cars are very bright! Reminded me of the Track Geometry Car when I saw it in the tunnel cause the headlights are so bright.

I guess this is official confirmation by NYCT.

4236 might be scrap, just seen it being towed down Flatlands Ave AWAY from Flatbush Depot. Look like it was missing parts on the roof in the rear (wiring exposed). Or it was going to ENY CMF, reason I'm not sure is the bus is taking Flatlands Ave and I'm not sure what highway it could possibly be going to. Maybe it's heading to left on Pennsylvania Ave to Linden Blvd to the Van Wyck to the Whitestone Bridge and it's using that routing to ECH?

Yes, it seems this hustle has exploded in popularity recently. Feels like I see multiple ppl selling candy per subway ride.

Surprised since Amtrak isn't THAT frequent between NYP and BOS, I'm guessing single tracking between Queens and New Rochelle? That's the only reason I can see them needing to cut service though there.