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I don't plan to ride in the first car. The second and third or seventh car in a consist is my favorite to ride in regardless of car class. Just a weird quirk of mine lol There wasn't no heads up to the public when the TA took the R211 gangway set for a spin on the Culver EL with the media on board.

Very Nice! I wonder if the media will be invited or will it be an quiet uneventful first trip with only fanfare from railfans. Nothing more exciting in this hobby than when an new subway car class makes its revenue service debut.

They wanted to cut the B25 too which has heavy ridership too because it was running parallel to the subway. I can see the appeal of the Q56 for seniors and disabled riders, but I wonder why the Q56 along with the B25 is so popular with younger abled body ppl despite being much slower than the subway. I've had a few trains going in the same direction pass me at Woodhaven Blvd before one BK bound Q56 showed up. I only tolerated it because I wanted to busfan the route lol. If I was an normal commuter, I would have simply taken the train.

I'm reading online that NYP is still a far more popular destination than GCM for LIRR riders so far. Crazy that they cut both the 3:07 AND 3:14 from NYP to Ronkonkoma, that 3:31 to Ronkonkoma must be getting hammered. I wonder if LIRR was expecting a 50/50 balance between NYP and GCM terminals in terms of ridership.

I'm curious if the superliner replacements will be bi level. I'd rather the whole LD fleet have a uniform single level fleet rather than now with the east coast/LSL having an separate fleet from the midwest & west coast LD trains.

That's one of the locations you can get the COVID vaccine. They want to make it easier for people to reach that location.

Today I FINALLY got a Cuomo scheme Nova on an FLA SBS route. I've been on the blue and white Novas on the B44 SBS plenty of times when FLA had them but never the newer ones until today. I had to choose between an NG on the local or the Nova on the SBS, was an tough choice as I'm not sure how much longer FLA will have NGs. Also I saw the Eagle team pull up to the stop I was waiting at before the bus showed up.

Express buses need a fare for crowd control, otherwise they are gonna have to run some of those express bus routes on B46 pre artic conversion headways just to keep up with the demand Express bus ridership will go though the roof if they make it free, they might have to run the SI rush hour weekday only routes 7 days a week if it was free rather than the four routes they do now.

76th Street is the only one where no one knows whether it exists or not AFAIK Not the subway but IIRC remnants of an LIRR steam train was found under Atlantic Ave. EDIT: Heres an wikipedia page about the LIRR tunnel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobble_Hill_Tunnel https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/why-an-1830s-locomotive-appears-to-be-trapped-under-brooklyn-streets

An Metro North train overshot the bumper block at New Canaan today.. https://newcanaanite.com/photos-metro-north-train-crashes-through-barrier-at-end-of-new-canaan-branch-line-early-tuesday-updating-7465084

IMO N/Q/W riders will be even more miserable if those lines become entirely R68/68A because nearly all of CI R68/68A fleet has flat wheels, making them an even more unpleasant ride than the R46. The 68/68A wasn't like this in the 2000s, it's really bad in current day. The R68A in particular was so nice to ride in the mid to late 2000s, now they rumble like crazy. Concourse easily has the best R68s to ride cause they are smooth.

South Brooklyn is not low ridership, ever ride the line on weekends when the isn't running? SRO by the time you get to Chruch Ave. I use to live along the line in Brooklyn, the Q is very well utilized in BK. Weekday ridership might have taking a hit due to Covid/WFH but it was crushloaded during rush hour prior to that.

The NBC4 5PM newscast showed an R68 but the YouTube version showed an R62A on the They switched the video and still got the wrong car class lol ABC7 got it right by actually showing an R46 on the (A).

I know what an joke is, considering that they reefed subway cars until very recently its possible he didn't know they went back to scrapping subway cars.

On the NBC 4 R211 news story when they talked about the R46 being replaced..... they showed video of an R68. Also the MTA president said it's time for the cars to take a swim, the MTA president isn't aware that they went back to scrapping cars the old fashioned way? Unless plans changed. I doubt they will go back to reefing for R46 disposal as the stainless steel reef program didn't age as well as it did with the Redbirds.

It was explained on another railfan site that the M3s were not rebuilt with the updated signal aspects for ESA and can only run on restricted speed in ESA cause the M3s wouldn't recognize the signal system.

Anybody ever notice that the heating sucks in the R160s? That's the biggest improvement the R179 has over the older B div NTT is they are nice and toasty on a cold winter day. R160s have excellent A/C during the summertime but the heat is nearly nonexistent during the winter.

The M3s also aren't compatible with the new signal system in the ESA tunnels.

EDIT: It gonna be flip up seats, no permanent loss of seating, that's not too bad IMO. Just saw the story on the news.. Maybe I'm misremembering but some of the 4700s on the B1 had permanent loss of seating during the trial period, I'm assuming they are gonna refit the 1,000 buses with flip up seats.

Finally. Considering they covered up the LIRR signs at GCT I was worried the delay will be longer, but a little under a month after 2022 ended isn't too bad.

I think that mainly applies to High Speed Rail consists, not commuter rail trains. There's a train in London that was suggested in the article that's flatter faced (but still curved), but I was too lazy to post a photo of it. The Europe trains are faster than LIRR & MNR trains cause they are lighter.

The LIRR MUs run on different branches in the system over the course of the day. So odds are they wouldn't buy equipment just for the short LIRR branches. It would kill flexibility.

Some time savings if European rolling stock was used on LIRR and MNR..... "It would cut the 46-minute local service between Port Washington and Penn Station to 40 minutes, making it practically as fast as the express;" "It would shave nine minutes off the 75 minute, 18-stop trip between Babylon and Penn, making it almost as quick as the 62-minute limited-stop service;" "It would knock eight minutes off the 59-minute ride between North White Plains and Grand Central, making it nearly as fast as the express." The biggest issue I see with using Europe trains here in NY is they are in fixed sets rather than married pairs, both LIRR and MNR runs different length sets over its various routes, that could kill flexibility. Here's an pic found on google of the "Stadler FLIRT" which is some of the euro rolling stock being suggested to run on MTA commuter railroads... Maybe if they could find a way to put these things in married pairs and flatten the front of the train, maybe they could work over here.

You was around for the R30? Lucky you lol. For those not familiar the Redbirds on the were R30s which retired in the early 90s. I wish they would have stayed until the early 2000s when the R143 showed up so I would have had an chance to ride them. I do agree that there has been worse equipment in the subway history than the current day R46. IMO the R46 are in upgrade in comfort over older SMEE cars. Mechanical issues aside the cars are still pleasent to ride. Only complaint is the A/C can be weak during the summer months at times. They are also IMO the quietest cars in the fleet in the interior, even quieter than the Tech Trains.