Fresh Pond

Metropolitan is the south terminal

There you go After the first incarnation of express service stopped, there was no need for them to keep the lower level platform in usable shape so they left it to perpetually rot as-is. ...then came the fire which essentially just finished the job

There's no tiles down there anymore. They were all ripped out when upper Bergen got rebuilt after that fire, it's all bare wall. ...and leaking everywhere lol

I'm going to ask that you stop backseat moderating and leave it to the professionals lol[emoji14] If you have nothing to add, please don't comment on the post

Sometimes it's not even trains at all. Even miscellaneous things like cranes for inside the shops get a contract number lol Sent from my SM-G930T using NYC Transit Forums mobile app

Definitely somewhere in that ballpark.

That's also vinyl. The entire bus is a solid blue and the back is yellow. Everything else applied is vinyl.

All the depots in Manhattan were originally MaBSTOA except for the old 126 St, which was a TA depot. Once 126 coded and Hale reopened, that became a TA depot.

But it is... Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transportation Operating Authority ...only depot that ISN'T MaBSTOA in Manhattan is Hale.

Think of it as an articulated bus. Generally the same exact concept, except with a train instead

The preliminary plan is for the XN60s to go to Gleason for fleet expansion (the XN40s is more than enough to retire the VIIs) for the B35, and to West Farms to retire their VIIS, and push the Novas out to other places so the last of the D60s can get the boot. If you look at it, WF is getting the majority of the XN60 order

To add on, the comments from yesterday have all been deleted. Let's try to keep out the personal attacks everyone.

It makes no sense to convert a (still relatively new) CNG bus. 5075 was just a transmission swap. 7746, 7691, and 3563 were both engine and transmission swaps. Both are relatively easy to do, compared to an entire conversion. The CNG tanks, fuel lines, engine, transmission, etc. all have to be removed and replaced with the proper battery stuff. It's a lot more complicated. Any new bus coming from New Flyer is automatically an Xcelsior, that's all they offer ...not counting the MiDis lol

The route is still nothing special, new bridge or not.

So yesterday morning while heading home from work, I usually catch the morning short-turn to Myrtle-Wyckoff. We get to Montrose and the C/R announces that we would go straight to Myrtle-Wyckoff. Today, I missed my usual short turn and caught the train behind it (when I eventually catch at Myrtle-Wyckoff anyway lol). We get to Livonia and this time the C/R announces we would be going non-stop straight to Canarsie

Because at both ends of the station, trains immediately turn. Also make it redundant since there's switches between both lines at both Columbus Circle and West 4 St.

Apparently there is ...I'm mad since the is out and I work weekends lol

A little late to the party good sir lol... They moved both the 12 and 25 first stop to Alabama Av (i still dont agree with it, but i digress) and got rid of the haphazard U-turn both used to do

Gleason's XN40s are already hitting service. 745 is on the B67. They can't be tracked just yet

Good riddance

With 4 depots in Manhattan with similar buses, the odds of them borrowing a CNG bus is almost 0

It's not as east as just walking up to Eastchester and borrowing a random bus from the lot. Those movie buses are mostly privately owned by either the company itself, or by someone else.

Theoretically yes, but they still would have to be "retrained." ...the odds of them getting loaned a CNG are almost non-existant, especially with Quill right there ready to loan them a bus easy. Movie prop bus. We never had any D40HFs.

We have the 40' CNG low floor cousins of them (C40s) running now

It actually can. There's a relay track between Queens Plaza and the merge with the (D5 track, same track the Holiday train uses to turn back), so if there really was some sort of problem where they can't be turned back at Court Sq, they can easily go to Queens Plaza to turn back. But on the other hand, would such an extension really be worth it? Especially since there's already a connection at Court Sq for the and .