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Or a lack of enthusiasm. Then again, considering the issues they've been having with the Museum cars lately (R6 1300 out pending repairs, another R1/9 mechanical failure at 2nd Avenue, R11 8013 shorting out the day before its premier trip and running with no lights), perhaps it's for the better. And hopefully a toned-down ceremony will keep all the foamers and other assorted rail freaks at bay...

Actually, 57th-6th looks fine the way it is. Of course the platform tiles are a bit bland, but that was the style in the 1960s- they seem to be holding up fine, and it's nowhere near as bad as the older stations that were forcibly retrofitted with these tiles around the same time (BMT 4th Avenue anyone?). Also, the mezzanine is very spacious and the quasi-marble finish is downright majestic: they'd have to be complete idiots to tear that floor up...

Saw a set of the older M4/M6 series in service at Grand Central the other day; I thought they were all retired last year? Car numbers were in the 8000 series...

A few random questions- 1. What is the current status of the R127/134s? Last I heard the TA was thinking of getting rid of them. 2. Do the individual subway lines still have "General Managers"? This particular layer of bureaucracy was instituted sometime around 2008/09, but apparently the TA plans to undo that setup or something.

As far as current events are concerned, Trump is an egomaniac and I despise him, but let's not kid ourselves: Clinton had about the same amount of charm and charisma as Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...

The in the PM rush has been particularly bad for the last two years or so. Don't know if it's all the timers they added or the terrible MDBF of the R46s.

Better yet, perhaps to Canarsie LOL... No, I doubt it'll come close to what some of our resident trolls have been pitching lately.

Not going to get into the whole discussion of lighting efficiency per se, but I will say that I always liked the long fluorescent tubes they used for lighting in the 63rd Street Tunnel and the ones they retrofitted into the tunnels of the upper Crosstown Line in the '80s. Those and the mercury bulbs they used to have in the IRT tunnel to Brooklyn.

Well, I'm sure the TA will figure something out. They have the mechanical know-how, and if that fails, they have other rolling stock...

Pics? Car assignments?

What's this I hear about the Museum Train being taken completely out of service on Sunday the 4th? Did this actually happen or is it just some more nonsense from the idiotic railfan rumor-mill?

I'm pretty sure the R42s are not going anywhere soon; not until the TA is absolutely sure they're not needed anymore. And who knows what nonsense might come up with the delivery of the R211s, considering that contract involves far more cars...

Does this mean the R42s will be displaced onto other lines from the (J)/(Z)?

Alright, time to nip this in the bud- The R42s are not being retired right now; considering the extensive delays and other problems with the R179 delivery, they probably won't start retiring until the second half of 2017. Secondly, the MTA has made it clear that a limited number of cars will be kept for service increases during the shutdown- right now, the last thing they would do is start scrapping cars just for the sake of doing so. Can't count chickens before they hatch.

Was along Second Avenue today- station entrances aren't even halfway done, there's still big holes in the ground... no way in hell this project will be ready by December 31st.

Who cares? The less trolling noobs, the better...

Yeah but 95% of everything else was nonsense...

You're a bit late to the party; unreliability and incompetence have been the defining hallmarks of the MTA and their political overlords in Albany for well over 35 years...

So another one bites the dust.

Honestly, I wish they'd just go back to using Akzidenz-Grotesk for everything: stations, rollsigns, maps, route bullets... Helvetica's too generic.

Opening one station while keeping others closed would defeat the whole purpose of relieving the Lexington Avenue Local in the first place.

Well before Sanders I was actually really hoping Biden would run; he would have unified everyone and he's not as foolish as the media make him out to be (he's actually quite intelligent- look up his recent one-on-one interview with Charlie Rose). Amen to that, brother! Way too much baggage and she was way too smarmy- Democrats really shot themselves in the foot with that one and harmed millions of ordinary Americans like myself in the process (by enabling a crazed orange lunatic).

Reminds me of how several R42s (4680-1, 4714-5, 4766-7) were scrapped in the '80s before the GOH even began. Word is they were already revenue inactive in the '70s so seeing how that wasn't even 10 years into their lifespan, I'm betting it was structural defects...

I was a Sanders supporter, so for me the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of the Hillary crowd. If those cocksnots really wanted to beat that fascist egomaniac Trump, then they would have given the nomination to Sanders. Fvck the DNC in its entirety; now I'm going to have to live every day in fear of nuclear war triggered by a toupee-wearing asshat.

The does not need to stop at 49th Street; in fact it shouldn't. The TA has said that rush hour crowds at 49th Street justify this, but having used 49th Street myself, I find their reasoning dubious. They just don't feel like performing the necessary switch/signal adjustment work, same way that they have still not gotten around to correcting the Montague clearance problem. They also need to stop kidding themselves that Second Avenue will be ready to open before the end of the year (they've shifted the opening date to December 31st now). Considering the pace of their progress and the issues with 72nd and 86th Street, they should just come clean and admit the line won't be ready until at least February. Otherwise they'll have a situation like with 34th Street- sloppy work performed in such a rush that the ceiling leaked, escalators broke down after a few days and the second station entrance is still under construction.