Kamen Rider

1 hour ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:

I saw that train heading NB at 145 St 90 minutes ago.

Pretty sure I saw her in the barn at PIT yesterday. She looked ready.

Welp… finally did it. Finally got a turn on the 211T…

Their software still has the “doors open ->” display on the ceiling and the pre-programmed side lights up ahead of time. Gonna be fun the first time Euclid brings an express in on the local at the last second.

Watching the empty train move between stations, the body bending around the curves, rising and falling with the grades  was…

it was fascinating.
It was mesmerizing…

it might also have been nauseating but that might just have been something like a sinus infection showing up at the worst possible time. It’s about two hours later and I’m still feeling funky.

(I am going to assume it was the latter because I have only ever thrown up after getting off a ride once and that was that piece of trash coaster in NJ that fell into the ocean and that not just my opinion, she was known to be a rough ride)

considering that the boots come from various different manufacturers that we get to pick from… that’s going to be a “no” from a lot of people including me.

10 hours ago, Transit Fans said:

Who even is saying the R32 are coming must be smoking something. It’s too expensive for those trains since the MTA don’t have spare parts or updated equipment to be compatible. Those trains are done no coming back. 

It’s not so much saying they’re coming back, so much as demanding it. Every time the R211s have suffered even the slightest setback , they have started with this nonsense.

Many armchairs do not think before they speak. I had someone on the comments of one of my videos suggest the F should get the R143s.

I have been an MTA employee now for about 18 months. I am not trained on anything older than the R46s. You would need the exact opposite of the R211 protection crew to operate any R32s in service.

that being said. I will point out we do have the “movie train” (yes, that’s its sort-of-official name), but again, I have no clue what to do with it, and there several hundred people behind me on the B division conductor roster who don’t have a clue ether. 

https://gothamist.com/news/2-staten-island-railway-conductors-assaulted
 

two conductors just trying to help a person at the MVM get beat up for the process…

So… I had not one… BUT TWO… kids hanging off the sides/ back of my train in the space of about 10 minutes…

I swear these kids have no self preservation instincts…

57 minutes ago, Chris89292 said:

So is the issue still on going or are the crews lazy to fix it, it’ll take 4 months 

first of all, please keep in mind, when you work for transit, you work for a massive bureaucracy with about 55,000 employees. Just because something doesn’t occur with the snap of a finger doesn’t mean people are being lazy. That’s really rude to say about some pretty hard working people.

that being said, this is not transit’s issue to worry about, but Kawasaki’s. They made the mistake, the cars are under warranty, this is all on them. 
 

this is like getting one of those automotive recall notices in the mail. 

12 hours ago, shiznit1987 said:

. Railcar manufacturing is too sporadic to be effective in house. There's a big order at best every 10 years but in some cases there's been 20 year gaps in purchases. 

The idea then is to bid for other agencies contracts when not working on our own.

4 hours ago, ABOGbrooklyn said:

How severe is the R211 issue?

As far as I’m aware, there aren’t any DoCE people who hang out here. We’d have to ask them for a direct answer.

38 minutes ago, slantfan4281 said:

A few questions:

1. Could the truck issues mean that Kawasaki will switch back to R160 style trucks for the rest of the fleet?

2. I saw a video of the R211S testing on SI - are the 5 pilot cars for that using the same trucks as 4060-9?

3. Does the R211T use the same trucks as the R211A pilot set?

1: depends on how severe the issue actually is.

2 & 3: rolling stock not on the active roster is not a serious priority. If they have been inspected and found not to have the cracks, they can still go through testing.

Some days I wonder if it would be easier if we just built the damn things in house…

Come to think of it… Create more local jobs, create the possibility of bidding on contracts from other agencies.

not that bad an idea.

Oh, so they finally admitted to something we’ve know about for over a week…

They’re not riding better. Just as bouncy as ever.

On 10/21/2023 at 2:49 AM, JSLR7 said:

A simpler solution which I haven't seen brought up is to make the local and the express in Queens while keeping those two trains on 63rd and 53rd respectively. Yes, Queens would loose an express train on weekends, but so do other lines on the system (Broadway, Sixth Ave, Eastern Parkway), and the express trains on those lines don't seem to be overcrowded on weekends.

Has it ever occurred to you that we train crews are human beings who have lives outside of our train cabs…? That we are not part of the train? That we were not built in the factory? That we’re not machines?

You want to make the F local all day? 55 station one way trip? A near two hour trip on a GOOD day… all because some people are a smidge impatient?

sure… doesn’t affect you. You don’t have to travel the entire way. You don’t have to be on the train from Jamaica to Coney. We do.

Rerouting the November does not suddenly create more Whiskeys. That’s not how this works at all. 

Or just do what I do and read them all to get a general idea… even if I don’t understand what they’re actually doing…

still want someone to explain what the foxtrot “Ekki-Hilti” is…

(Nevermind, googled it and actually got an answer…)

1 hour ago, TMC said:

This makes sense, 50th Street is the equator of peak job density in Midtown.
 

That being said, 49th Street should only be served by locals, because of the terrible capacity impacts from switching at 34th (or even 57th)

As opposed to the terrible capacity impacts of cutting the number of trains at such a popular station?

2 hours ago, TMC said:

I hear this, but never saw a proper source. I'm skeptical. 

Pre-pandemic, 49th street was the busiest non-transfer station on the core Broadway Line, ranking 50th.

4 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

So then how do you guys do short platforms then? (If you had any). Like with the 211’s on SI, how do they isolate 2 cars?

… we don’t. The only station that is still short is on the A division, 145th/Lennox

It’s a backup method to cut out and isolate a car. To my knowledge we only actually supposed to use it without express permission.

kills power to the door motors without throwing the breakers.

this is leaf season, remember. 

one bad slide is all it

12 minutes ago, Chris89292 said:

What does a flat wheel look like? Is the wheel actually flat or something

Given how loud that thing is, yes. 
 

the train is probably on its way to CIY for a date with the wheel truing machine.

or with how bad that sounds, have the wheel swapped out completely.
 

6 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

Can someone confirm if the pilot is still running around?

Saw her about 3:30 ish at chambers 

Welcome to the ABCs of RTO (I am still not calling it “Service Delivery”…) for new hires.

A is for “ABD”, you’re not going anywhere 

B is for “Board”, what you’ll be doing a lot of (in the figurative and literal sense)

C is for “CRC”, where you often have to show up.

D is for “Drop”, you just got a longer break

E is for “Extra”, you’re trip isn’t on the timetable.

F is for “First”, when you’re first through a completed GO, be on the lookout…

G is for “G2”, … or else you’ll be writing these a lot

H is for “Holding Lights”, never ignore them

I is for “Interval”, remember it. Stick to it.

J is for “Job”… knowing which one you have makes all the difference.

K is for “Kronos”… swipe the day away.

L is for “Lost and Found”. It’s at Penn Station.

M is for “MAL”. If you don’t have it, you’re not moving.

N is for “November”… which is about when you’ll pick.

O is for “Original”. You get called this when you’re taken Out of Service.

P is for “Portable Trip”… which get carelessly left behind…

Q is for “Quilifed”, what gets you the interesting jobs…

R is for “RCI”. The AAA of the subway

S is for “Supplement”. Know it well.

T is for “Trailer”, where you’ll be spending a lot of time

U is for “Universal”… what the 5 button lock door codes aren’t…

V is for “Vacation”. You’ll be getting the scraps.

W is for “Wash”. remember to close the windows.

X is for “X crew”. You’re on a GO job.

Y is for “Yard”, where you’ll be getting a lot of cardio.

Z is for “Zone Controller”… which work… right up until someone sneezes and then it self destructs.

6 minutes ago, Transit Fans said:

Great normally if the R211 is out of service the MTA would pause the delivery. 

Considering the hammer only just came down a couple days ago…

those cars would have already left Lincoln by that point.

Can’t exactly tell the drivers to turn around or sit and do nothing till whatever is wrong is fixed. 
 

also to my knowledge everything that has been problematic with the 211s is software related. This isn’t like Bombardier screwing up the 179s so bad the first 10 had to be scrapped.