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Question: are you allowed to use a Metrocard in the system? I'm confused...

It must be a regular pay-per-ride Metrocard. Unlimited, disabled, and senior cards will NOT work.

Fixing the Nassau connection is about 9998 on the list of things that need to be done, especially now that no revenue service uses that tunnel. Unless an extra billion dollars magically appears in the budget, it will continue to sit OOS indefinitely.

Contractors are currently working down there...

The trip cocks on all current equipment are self resetting. When the trip cock is activated, the emergency brakes are activated, but the valve resets and the brakes can be recharged.

The two guys that walked off when you were on the structure, did they quit?

MTA NYCT hard hats colors:

Red= Infrastructure

Green= Stations

Dark Blue= Car Equipment

Orange= Rapid Transit Operations

Light Blue= Track

Grey= Electrical

Lime Green= EMD or Technology Services

White= Supervisors, Managers, or anyone important

Yellow= Signals

R1 thru 9 side route sign box.

Very cool, I have a big collection of signs and I always wanted this one. I was told that the sign room in Coney Island Yard and a massive box of these signs and they were intended to be used on the R40/42/44/46 cars which use the same signs. As the story goes though, all those signs were thrown out. 

The museum pair of 32s in Ave X yard is signed up as the Air train, well I assume its the museum pair as its much cleaner than the active 32s and parts of it was repainted, you can see it from the F train.

There is no museum set in Ave x yard. Those cars are there for CED and Track Dept. to practice re-railing.

 

I ONCE worked the holiday special R9, and the sheer amount of obnoxiousness and immaturity I saw made me decide to never volunteer again. And I can tell you that if that was MY R32 yesterday, I would have kicked you off the moment I sensed any trouble. Some of you have no respect whatsoever for this subway system which you act like you love so much.

When did you work the R9s? I asked around and not a single person knows who you are.

The R40's through R46's all had the same end signs when they came back from GOH. The R68/A's also had Eastern Div. routes and Train to the Plane on their original signs too.

If you think there is something they might give you trouble over, go to your personal doctor NOW and get it taken care of. before I was hired at PATH, I went to get my eyes checked and it was a good thing I did. I failed the vision test without glasses, but passed with them. Had i not had glasses, I would have been passed over.

Had my first track fire today. It was interesting, pm rush south of grand central. Train was packed and i had to shut down the hvac. I then sat there and watched the fire burn while control asked if its safe to go past. Had 2 superintendents walk down from 42 and put it out. It all turned out ok.

 

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They don't have the train crew put it out? My first week switching at Harrison Yard, I had a track fire and i put it out using my water bottle so we could keep doing moves.

It was all reading comprehension, it was a very easy test and it asked noting about tools.

But the went to Astoria! . . . watch your line up.

Just make sure you get a bottom yellow at 4 ball.

In school car for the TA, how much time do they spend on other than head end operation? My switching class at PATH has us doing that almost half the time we operate being flagged by buzzer only.

Ah 38th Street Yd nice place in the Middle of nowhere! I wonder if DeLuca will still be on duty?

 

If he is get to KNOW his voice very well! If you working late PMS or Midnight's yer gonna hear him if you are anywhere in that area... 

 Duke is the man, last time I saw him he was at Murphy.

It's a key the RR give to their employees and what the conductors use on trains. Both RR have the same sets and it has many functions on the equipments and does it all except train movement . Looks just like the TA conductors keys but bigger and heavier. But I was just wondering do TO's get a master key like what only Engineers get which is gold and longer. So for instance two sets of transportation keys.

 

I can't speak for the TA guys but at PATH C/Rs and M/M have 4 of the same keys. A PA1-4 cab key, PA1-4 MDC key, PA5 cab key and a PA5 Vapor key. Aside from work trains, the PA1-4 keys are not needed except to key-by 3 signals.

Quick question, I've seen conductors for TA with their version of dream keys for the equipment. Do TO also get a special key like for train movement or is the same keys as the conductors use for door operations and etc..

 

Whats a "dream key"?

No offense, but from the responses this thread is getting, I don't think anyone here is interested in the school car experience. Why don't you wait until school car is over and then just write up a summary of your experiences? Reading that would be far more interesting and helpful than reading what you had for lunch.

 

No offense, but some of us here actually are. I'm particularly interested since I work for a different railroad that does things that are very different in terms of training. If you don't think this thread is worth it, go post somewhere else.

Thats Nothing wait till you start getting more stuff...

 

I suggest you folks invest in good bags but please try to stay away from the Suitcases!

 

Damn, they really give you guys that much to carry? I have a small tool bag with a vest, flashlight, escape mask, and some keys in it.

They still giving out metal brake handles or only the plastic ones?

 

 

Those 16 cars are scrap? I doubt that.

 

They are scrap, along with several R42s up there.

Keep in mind that the TA is doing the testing now, not DCAS so things may have changed.

I like my iPhone 4, it does what I need and it's easy to use. I only got it because it was an easy transition from the iPod touch to the iPhone and my previous phone was a flip phone. I guess I'm in the minority of Apple users that buys Apple products solely because it's a step up from something I already had.

That being said, the iPhone 5 is a joke and the only real up side is a bigger screen that isn't even that big. So what it's lighter and slimmer, is an iPhone really that bulky (I have an Otter Box on my phone and it's still small)? And 4G, I don't use my phone that much since I can't have it on me at work. I'll wait till they come out with something with a much bigger screen and a faster network (which I don't doubt will be around by the time they have a new phone).

To say that the R44 overhaul was anything but a wild success would be ignorant. They were some of the least reliable cars ever built prior to overhaul. While they did not stand out as high performers until the end of their careers post overhaul, you could not realistically call them lemons at any point after GOH. Also, some of the many structural issues were fixed during GOH. (As they were on other cars, most notably the R32s!)

 

Asbestos had nothing to do with the retirement of the R44s. Every carfleet up to the R46 (Not sure about the R46s themselves) had asbestos.

 

The R62s and I think even the R68s have asbestos,