Kamen Rider

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.

8 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

Do we have cab signaling on NYC Subway Trackage...?

Obviously not. Hence why it needs more testing over there.

2 hours ago, zacster said:

And what will they be doing between now and then with it?  It's already been tested, hasn't it?  Why wait another six months?

For the Staten Island team, this is quantum leap forward. 
 

there are so many thing those of us on the mainline subway take for granted that they have never seen before from an operating perspective. 
 

I needed one day to learn the 211s

T/O classes are two days.

SIRTOA is probably going to be a full week.

even the simple things.

Like, say, do the SIR R44s have enablers? 

I checked with the dispatcher as I was leaving for the day, there is some sort of issue. Never got a straight answer as to what it actually is, but then again, I just wanted to confirm something was up. 
 

as of right now, dither chatter was moving more ENY 160s to the Charlie to free up R46s for A service.

and before any of you ask, we are not returning any older cars to service.

Update, apparently at least one is working. The word in the crew rooms was there was a fault in the computers that needed correction.

the pilot set is currently platformed at 207.

So…

I am going to share something. 
 

I don’t want you all to start making random guess. I don’t want you all to start running around like proverbial chickens without heads. You are not to speculate about what I am about to say other than what I am specifically telling you.

so, that being said:

there are no R211s currently in service.

On a normal day, all one really needs to do is wait around at Penn Station.

To keep this thread where people can see it so our new hires can read and learn…

also, here are a few words you might hear over the radio that are used as shorthand.

The Well: Stilwell Avenue

the Rock: Far Rockaway

Pacific/Pacific Street: Atlantic-Barclays on the 4th avenue D/N/R (it’s name before Atlantic Avenue was applied to it.)

the Highway: Kings Highway on the Culver Line

the Boulevard: Rockaway Blvd

15 hours ago, trainfan22 said:

I just realized, the Staten Island R211s will be testing on SIR during wet leaf season, none of the tech train car classes prior to the R211 likes rain/snow/wet leaves on rails so I wonder how the R211s will handle slip n slide on the wet leafs on the rails.

 

 

The SI R44s stayed having flat wheels due to leaf season in the fall and early winter. I wonder how the R211s will handle those conditions.

Trains in general don’t like having to deal with leaves, the NTTs are not special in that regard.

additionally, until the new shop at Clifton opened, SIRTOA didn’t have a wheel truing machine. That required a trip to CIY. Hence why the flat wheels lasted so long. Now that work can be done in-house.

21 hours ago, Trainmaster5 said:

In case you haven’t noticed yet the NYCTA is dismantling infrastructure and has been doing so for years. Just count the number of stations, tracks and structures that exist today versus 1950 or so. 

One of them, for the most part, was actually replaced. The Jamaica El with the Archer Subway.

the rest… well, 

I don’t know if you noticed, but my generation and younger, we like transit. We like having an environment. We would like to enjoy the long, happy lives many of your generation are living. My grandma turns 96 in a few months…

but that world we are supposed to be inheriting is… slowly becoming unattainable.

we can’t afford things your generation took for granted and then get mocked because we don’t have them. I am 35. A lot of economists say people my age and younger will never be able to afford a house of our own without inheriting it.

costs are high, wages don’t match them. 
 

if you want to find the problem with transit, with the city, with this country… with the world in general…

it’s that some people refuse to let people like me step up. To offer our voices.

no, it has to be all a bunch of 50-80 year olds, all out of touch.…

Great, something else to break…

48 minutes ago, Comrade96 said:

This is gonna backfire pretty badly...

Not necessarily…

This is all an unknown. We don’t exactly know what effect the pricing program will have on the city and on ridership and on ridership levels on certain lines or stations.

If we make changes immediately, we could make the wrong ones.

saw them installing one at City Hall

19 hours ago, habbyy said:

I'm curious on what you guys think, it happens a lot where there's 30 minute gaps in SB N train service at the same exact time, is this the result of a  train operator being lazy or is it something else? I mean its probably a result of staff shortage? Although this isn't an extra train compared to the older N schedule from when they recently increased trains per hour so I'm not too sure.

I remember recently someone mentioned (idk if it was in this thread or another) about how some operators try to game the system and that's why you see no train for like 20-30 minutes then like 2-3 close together. Just wondering why this happens when the schedule is not set up this way, here is the proof I have:

https://imgur.com/a/7l6HWjo

https://imgur.com/a/x8jTQS1

According to the schedule, an N train should be departing from Astoria at 7:43, then 7:53, then 8:09, and a lot of the times i guess the 7:53 doesn't depart a lot of the times, which leaves to a 25-35 minute gap in N train service SB at some pretty important times throughout the line, what are your thoughts?

 

Okay, first of, get one thing straight, train crews are NOT lazy...

2 hours ago, FLX9304 said:

Or someone doesn’t know the computer controls inside the cab. That’s been happening on every new vehicle whether it’s a bus or subway. 

The R211s have functionally identical automated announcement system interfaces as the R160s. On top of that, as part of the qualification class, you have to program it. You can't crew the train without qualifying on it and you can't qualify on it unless you can, among other things, set the announcement system. 

Technically, per rule, the Train operator is supposed to set the announcement system at the terminal. In reality, more often than not. we conductors do it.

If an NTT runs blank, more often than not, it's because the route isn't programed in. 

The other issue is that, sometimes, and this has happened to me with one of the 211s, the tachometer got out of whack and had to be reset, so the announcements were playing out of synch. 

On 10/4/2023 at 2:08 PM, jon2305 said:

Lol That's pretty much in alot of areas around the city. I've stomped on at least 15 or so myself this past summer alone. One even decided to hop on the train ON me on Monday lol.

1 hour ago, Ale188 said:

It all started in PA...of course it was gonna spread to the city, especially at this time. Lucky I stomped like 5 during my summer. 

I mean the yard is CRAWLING with the little bastards. There were at least 15-20 dead in the hallway in the yard tower alone.

I watched 4100*-4109 roll out of Pitkin

i also SHOULD have been on that R211T burn in test if not for the Random I ended up with. 
 

they keep sending me there when they don’t need me… send me when they do need me and then snatch me away…

Pitkin Yard has a Spotted Lantern Fly infestation… I’ve stomped on six so far in the last three hours and there are dozens lying around dead

4 hours ago, zacster said:

Kind of ironic that they come to Brooklyn first by going through SI and now have to go back.  Is it still possible to car float them back?

There’s no float dock at Clifton Yard, so they would need to be craned off like the BLG20 work locomotives.

Yeah… um… reading that… as a transit worker… specifically RTO… yeah you don’t want to know my thoughts. 

At all…

Honestly… when I picked up, I was in the middle of something and was actually expecting a telemarketer or some scam call… I literally only answered to screw with them because I was in a mood.

I even answered in a funny voice, only to nearly drop the phone when I heard the automated message.

I mean… at this rate the EPIC passes are going to be the last bastion of Metrocard hardwear… I haven’t heard a peep about switching to OMNY based units, given how many swipe door locks there are…