Joe C

1 hour ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:

What about the train of many metals? It has the slants, r38's, the "million dollar" car, etc, but does it have r42's?

Yea,i'v seen the R42 museum set (4572-73) in the TOMM every time i'v seen it.

37 minutes ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:

I doubt that the r42's will remain in service in 2020. ENY has a surplus of NTT'S, but I think the r42's won't be scrapped immediately after their retirement. I wouldn't be surprised if the MTA preserve some r42's as museum trains and perhaps even be used to replace the redbirds that are still running on B division garbage trains. 

The museum has an R42 set saved,so i'd be suprised if they save another set.

Really? stop posting about this,i think everyone here knows how much you like the R42.just stop because you're trolling at this point.

15 hours ago, MysteriousBtrain said:

7674 and 7670 retired. End of the 2003 Orion vii cngs.

There are still plenty of 2003 Orion VII CNGs at West Farms.

2 hours ago, danielhg121 said:

Is it their first time manufacturing a B division fleet? If that's the case, just keep them on A division lol

No,they manufactured the R110B cars.

til next time

According to the NYC track map book

the remaining R42s will get retired when the R32s are done getting SMSed at coney island. I'm not sure if this is accurate or not.

 

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I'm pretty sure that's not true.

 

Whoops, thats an Error.

 

Fixed:

R62A Yard Roster - BY LINE

 

 Line: 137-145 Street / 207 Street / 240 Street Yards

Car Numbers: 1826-1830, 1841-1900, 2156-2190, 2196-2475

Total Number of cars: 380

Notes: 2191-2195 is currently on the line in place for 7226-7230 going in for R188 conversion.

 

 Line: Westchester Yard

Car Numbers: 1721-1725, 1731-1735, 1741-1750, 2191-2195

Total Number of cars: 25

Notes: More R62As to come to Westchester Yard when more R142As get converted.

 

 Line: Corona Yard

1651-1720, 1726-1730, 1735-1740, 1751-1825, 1831-1840, 1901-1908, 1910-1926, 1934, 1939, 1942-1944, 1947-1949, 1954, 1957-1965, 1966-2155

Total Number of cars: 399

Notes: This yard will lose more R62As in turn for more R188s when they start service. 1651, 1656, 1661 & 1666 have half cabs. 1917-1926 were originally on the  , then   line in 2011. 1966-2155 are linked into 5-car sets, but have half-cabs on both ends of the set.

 

 42 Street Shuttle: Livonia Yard (1 or 2 cars used on garbage trains, stored in 239 Street yard).

1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1953, 1955, 1956

Total Number of cars: 20

Notes: 1930 & 1936 currently at 239 St Yard for garbage train service. Some cars are linked into 3-car sets, numbers will be available in the next update.

 

137-145 is just a lay-up yard,it doesn't have a maintaince shop like 207 or 240.

So no chance of any remaining stored R-42s coming back? If there isn't what a waste and a shame. Are there ten left or are they done?

 

On the other hand, mtattrain sparked something to me, any remaining r44's on property? Any chance of any action with them? According to the roster thingy on nycsubway.org a few hand fills of them are still left.

Those R42 cars that are retired aren't coming back,same with the R44's.it's not a waste if they had to be replaced,nothing lasts forever.

On a demanding line like the they'd be worn down even faster. And does Jamaica even have 4-car R160 sets?

Jamaica does not have 4 car R160 sets.

Is 7848 an A-car as well?

7848 is an A-car.

Numbers? I am guessing trains from the ?

 

More likely from the .

Well in that case I guess we can rule out the R-32s going to the and lines as some had been previously speculating.

 

There were no plans to send the R32 cars east.

They don't have cab seats?

 

They do have cab seats.

You guys still haven't answer my question: I need to know how much room Pitkin Avenue Yard can fit all cars assigned to the trains if the takes over 207th yard...

 

Pitkin isn't big enough to house all of the cars that run on the and Rock Pk .207th would still be used for storeage if it does become the

main shop for the line.

I heard about the change to ALSTOM too. There's that one full set of R188s on property but nobody has caught it running under its own power so we won't know for sure until that happens.

 

That full R188 is a converted R142A,so it may still have the Adtranz propulsion.

Just a note, I only said that the has a habit of putting R143s because they had confirm that its possible due to the reasons already mentioned by others here but never did I said that they will run those cars on the .

 

It is possible,but they've never ran any R143s on the line.

There are quite a few other reasons as to why IRT cant use 60 footers. Prime example is the train. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I am almost certain the couldnt fit through some of those turns, especially at Central Park North.

 

The founder of the IRT, August Belmont, Jr. designed the tunnels so that no other private operator could use the tunnels.

 

 

 

I gotta go with RollOveMyHead on this one. Dante said that there is a very high possibility that R143s will go on the , and I can see how it works out clearly. R143s from the go on the , R160s from the go to the , and the R179s are left for the , and possibly the . That doesn't mean that R143s ain't going to the . DAMN. The man had a good point.

 

I don't see the R143's leaving the line,ENY has 208 R143 cars.that isn't enough for service and you would need over 300 R179 cars to cover service.the line won't see any new subway cars until the R68/A cars retire.

There's only one trackway that leads to 207th yard from the IRT B'way/7 Av Line, so no. The 207th yard is the 's home while Pitkin's home are the & RPS ...

 

Just because there is one trackway from the going to 207th St yard doesn't mean a thing,that yard is big enough to maintain the lines subway cars alone.

I could see the yard switch being TEMPORARY while 240th gets work done. Having said that, the logical thing to do would be to give the NTT's, so that there will still be room for the .

 

From what i hear,it won't be temporary.207th St yard would still be used as storage for the (A)/© line subway cars.

207th street shop which provides the A/C with 222 R32s has absolutely NOTHING to do with the retirement of subway cars. IINM it isn't even the actual location cars were stripped prior to reefing. I believe all that was done by the overhaul shop, but I could be mistaken as I have not been there in many years.

The cars were stripped in the overhaul shop prior to reefing.

What do you guys think will become of the car assignments on the BMT Eastern Division when the 300 R179s arrive? Also, what do think 207th Street Yard will get when the remaining 222 R32s and 50 R42s retire? Just asking based on ENY's post..

 

207th yard may just become the home base for the line,while the and lines would be based out of Pitkin Yard.don't know when it's gonna happen though.

Canon,they make great cameras.

Matter of fact, I won't even take any rumors you guys are hearing from other sites or people, I'd rather wait and see for myself. To me, if the MTA were to make such dumb decisions like......giving the R160s from the to the in exchange for the R179s or giving the 's R160s with some R160s from the to the and the using R46s from the which results in the being 100% R179s (250 cars in service during the AM/PM Rush Hours) and the being a mixed fleet of R68s and R160s, they will have serious problems making money and service. I'd rather go the easy way, retire trains on a line by the new cars you are using to replace those trains.

 

 

The ()' /> makes money no matter what subway cars run,they won't have problems there.

there's been rumors, passed along by credible people, suggesting that Pitkin is in line to be home of the 179s. It wouldn't be much of an upgrade since basically almost every NTT has seen time at Pitkin.

 

Pitkin would need an upgrade,when NTT are testing along the Rockaways they use pitkin just to store the train there.