Far Rock Depot

It's kind of hit or miss. First, some jobs are called 'penalty jobs". These are jobs that are more than 8 hours and have OT built in. Then there's what can happen when you are on board. If you pick up a partial job while on board, OT becomes what you worked past your clear time. If you pick up a full job, what ever time you were on the Board becomes OT. It's really too much of a variable to figure out how much exactly you'll make a year when your XX because every-day is different. As far as "no OT for new hires", I'm not sure if that's true. If it is, I'm assuming that means there's no option to work on one of your days off. Someone else here may be able to give the exact details on that. But in all honesty, during your first year, keep your RDOs (Regular Days Off).

Basically, for the first year, you are Extra Extra (XX). That means they schedule you where needed according to the tour you have. You can have a road job one day, platform the next then on board the day after that. You get your schedule three days ahead. When you Cal the crew office, they have your next three days scheduled. BTW, when you are in Board, don't expect to get home when you think you will. I once had a 16:00 report at 207th on board with an clear time of midnight. 30 mins before I cleared I picked up at platform job and had to report to Bedford park where the job didn't clear till 6am.

That's not the issue here. Every class has a slightly different interior. The point with the 179s has been mechanical, electrical and the Construction of them.

Thank you for the update. I didn't hear about that.

Really? I wonder when that started. I was in school car back in 2014 and the truck came there so we can get our boots.

you don't. Not long from now the boots truck will come to schoolcar. That's when you'll get your boots.

Late February.

And to add to this, SMS is a newer program than what the fleets went through in the late 80s-early 90s. That was known as GOH (General OverHaul)

What a the car number. You can tell it it's a four car or five car from that.

Just like with many programs, it's a "just in case".

"Confirmed" by who in the MTA? Cause if it by a "friend" whos crew or somethimg like that, i hate to break it to you, but most crews dont know either. And other employee see a railfan and feed false i fo. Cause they know youll go on the forums and run with it. Olus, the MTA does have a habit of changimg plans last minute. As a former employee myself, i know this for fact. Now as far as the G, whonsaid it was going to be 8 cars? Ot could be 10 (or 8-car 68s). Rememeber, The G needs a small fleet.

Your "theory" did sound like you had a theory. As in you took it as thays what going to happen. And thats the problem nowadays with most railfans. They take something like that and run with it all over social media. The fact is, outside of the A and C , we have no idea what fleet swaps are coming. The G could see NTTs, or expanded 68s. We dont know. And unless someone in operatiins planning spills the beans, we wont know until it starts to happen.

NO! Where the french toast did you get all of that from????

They can once they get a 10 set ready. If you havent noticed, they only 179s running are the 8 car sets. They are just now getting a full 10 car set on the property

Heres the thing: the plan ia to have most of not all of the ten car sets on the A. This will allow their 46s to go to the C. As far as the 32s, they still dont have enough freed up for 10 car seta on the C. Yes, you see more on the A now, but that was to replace the 46s they sent to the C. And the 8 car sets you see added to thr C were freed up from the J when 179s went their. They dont have 32s to spare to add to 8 car sets without breaking up an additional 8 car set.

Not fully yet. Not enough cars. The 32s on the C still run 8. Theres still 8 car 160s on the line. These changes usually are never overnight. Once the 10 car sets start coming in and seeing service, youll see more full length sets on the C

Because none of the ten car sets are in yet

To be honest, most passengers who board in manhattan usually dont discharge mostly until Bedford. Yes you do have a fairly good amount getting off at manhattan stops for crosstown service but theres going to be enough buses to cover it.

Because its cheaper to repair those then refit. Especially since the cars that are getting new lights and stanchions have about two decades minimum left in them, unlike the 46s. Which have what, 6-8 years left in them approximately?

I see multiple A trains every day. For about 3 decades. And woeked on them as a C/R. It really isnt as much as most of you claim. But i guess 30 years as a daily commuter, railfan and conductor combined holds no weight right? It never does here.

As a rider of the A since 1990, and a formwr conductor let me tell you a few thimgs that will ease the "confusion of riders'- cause that is always thrown around when talking about the A- the riders themselves!!!! 1)most dont bother reading. Thats a fact! They dont read signs. At all. There are destination signs that dont work, but its not as much as most of you here like to claim! Trust me. Almost 30 years of being on the A as a rider alone(im 41) ive swen that 95% of the signs work 95% of the time! 2) take off the damn headphones and stop playing your music loud without them! Theres announcements. Most dont heae them and a lot of you hwre havemt taken the A train as much as you lead on. As a C/R, im loud! Ive been loud as a kid. And my signs were always set proper! But all the time "what train is this? Is this the A? Whats the next stop? Lefferts or Rockaway?" And herea my favorite *removes headphones, music plays loudly* "why didnt you make an announcement?" Trust me on this, it's the riders. 3) riders really dont care about train car type! Yeah youll hear some say "why cant we get new trains?" Thats just because its shiny and new. Once that fades away after a few weeks, a train is a train to them. So having routes by type wont work. And will be an oporational nightmare!!! Especially at 207! Trust me on that!

Aa far as 32s on the shuttle, You know ithe shuttle are OPTO right? 32s cannot do OPTO. And techincally, Rock Pk yard is whats known as a "Satellite Yard" to Pitkin. Its only for layups.

The reason the 32s needed outaide air was for the air conditioning. The overall poor performance (low MDBF) is all mechanical issues. Doors, motors, etc. The 32s running outside will not fix this.

Where do i begin.... Thats not how car assignments go. First, whatever trains are used go to any terminal its interval is scheduled for. They do NOT do car assignments based on destination. So 32s, 46s and 179s will go to Ozone, Mott and 116. And I cant stress this part enough: There are no more power issues in rockaway anymore! Theres a power station in broad channel that was added that solved this!!!! Can that "power issues in Rockaway" die already???

Ok, so I took my pre employment drug test in late may. I know its only good for 90 days. Its now September and i have not recieved a letter for another drug test. Im in the 1500s so i know i have time before im called for final processing. Has anyone else got called for a second drug test after the first 90 days expired?