Far Rock Depot

I get on the A train in Rockaway at 6 am and whadaya know..... The R179 rolls in! Score!

That was back when I was first in school car 5 years ago. And that was Metro North it happened with.

I remember somewhere in this forum a thread titled the School car experience

Since when? When I was in School car, it was only Monday to Friday and any road ops happened between 10am and 3 pm.

We're in the same range and I haven't yet. Won't expect one till after the beginning of April when that class starts. I've been thru this process before and with the classes being smaller amd not a frequent as last time, and given how this time around it's all Transit and not DCAS, I'm expecting this to go not as smoothly as it has shown so far.

I belive that there's some confusion. Your question referred to exams while the answer was about classes. The exam for c/r 6601 was about two years ago or so. That was the last exam for c/r.

Two cars are in CI for fire safety training (indoors), one or two are used by the FDNY for training and there's about two in 207 last time I saw them. Fact is, "active Fleet" or not, the majority of them are still on TA property. So the 179s start at 3010. On a side note, I find it a cool statistic that all of the Bombardier-built "B" division cars are numbered in the 3000's

I believe Brakethrow was reffering to the windshields, not the cab doors.

Go. No matter how bad the weather will be. As already said, Transit is always up and running. All those snow storms when the subway was shut down, you will still have to report to your assigned location. Two feet of snow? You gotta report. No subway service? You gotta report. Another hurricane sandy? You gotta report. And BTW, during bad weather like snow, there's "early report" which means call up the night before and find out if the job you have requires an early report if you don't already know. One time I reported early without knowing there was an early report only because I live three stips from the terminal and show up early anyway. I got lucky.

Fan Railer hit it right on the nose. Infact, if you go onto NYCSubway.org, youll see pics of a special car they built to mimick the size of the R44s to test the clearances.

The standards have more of an "overhang"-and a shorter truck center difference.

The R110B was never locked. 67ft is the maximum length allowed to be unlocked as long as the truck center difference is the same as the 110B, which was slightly longer than the standards. The swing isn't too extreme. I asked this in New Car Engineering and again in School Car.

The feature is only on 75ft cars. Those are locked by default for safety reasons. The fact that when on curves, the doors are extremely misaligned and the anticlimbers are narrow. On every other car, they are left unlocked to assure that if any incident happens, passengers can escape to the other cars. If you remember when the 142s and 160s first arrived they had handles on both door panels , now only one of them has a handle. This is because in Europe, a car full of passengers got robbed because the criminals wrapped a chain between the two handles, locking everyone in. This can't happen with only one handle. This is what was told to us by our TSS in school car.

Only on 75 ft cars. So it literally is an issue.

^^^^^THIS!!!!! You're awesome!!

Its all good. I am surprised what with all the heads that have rode the train, report it's location and on the first few days, rode the train up and down the line, no one has compiled and posted the terminal departure times except for that first Sunday.

Right about now if it's been consistant, it's probably finishing it's last trip into Rockaway and leaving Mott as a lay-up to pitkin. Around not long passed this time, I've passed it twice this week leaving Rockaway OOS. When I respond to a post in particular, I quote it, for future record.

That wasn't answering your question. That was asking the the forum in general. And there's plenty here who in a colaborative effort, can do the work as a whole. Don't take things so personal. If you go back a page or two, a few have stated that it's getting to the point where every other post is "where's the train now?".

Well that's what they usually do. Twice this week I got to Rockaway from work passing it going to pitkin. They would have one schedule for weekdays, one for Saturday and one for Sunday.

Has no one been keeping track of what times this thing leaves the terminals? Chances are, it's going to rum the same schedule every weekday. This would not only allow us no know where the train is, but eliminate everyone asking all damn day! You guys are railfans! This is what railfans do! Before the net, this is how we found trains. Terminals only. We can use the actual published shcedule to make the timepoints along the line. But someone has to say "hey, it's thr blah blah blah out of 207. Amd keep track of it front there. Someone go back in this thread and find the times from Sunday so atleast this Sunday every other post won't be "where it's at? "

They did. Both R110s

They all want that "HD Rare" of it on the A. Lol

I agree with both of you. And after Sunday, and everyone chasing it like mad is probably why they didn't make it's schedule public like they use to. Railfans..... Well, foamers, have gotten worse.

If you fall victim to the 1:3 rule, they will send you a letter stating such. It's already happened to a friend of mine. Everyone, you gotta remember that for this list, DCAS is not involved. This one is all Transit. Which means they are still working out the kinks with how they do this. The OPA is new too. Be patient. I'm in the mid 15**'s. I've only gone in once for the PE back in may. And I've been thru this process before. A lot of us when we started this jouney informed many here that one of the best things to so is to take the test, and go about your norm. Theres no set timetable. There has never been. As far as taking time off to go to 180, that's never changed. And never will. You gotta do what you can to go on a few days notice. For 8094. I lived update Woking for Walmart. I made it. Two PE's and a M/FP. Four hour Amtrak ride.

Yup. One trippers, which I never liked. I was the one who liked a three tripper on the Charlie! And the WAA is before and after meal with a little bit at the end of the trip.