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The wrap is only on the A cars #1 end. Five months? Probably fix that is five minutes…

look, all i have is the GO paperwork saying this will be on D3, D4 and D5 (Pocket track north of the Plaza) Tuesday and Wednesday morning. don't ask me anything else...

The R179s are about to undergo CBTC testing on the Queens Corridor, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings of this coming week.

We have a random thoughts thread and a car swap thread and a whole host of other threads, peeps…

you don’t need to put everything tangentially connected to the R211s in this thread.

Today? No, I had an E job today... for some reason...

While I will remind everyone that we still have the car swap thread if you absolutely want to beat the dead horses more…

we don’t have 150 cars yet, period, let alone ready to go. 
 

that won’t be till next year…. Roughly when that GO will be over by.

so that argument just doesn’t work.

we’re not tossing the R46s in the trash just yet. 

49 minutes ago, Reptile said:

Sorry for more fleet swap talk but the have 20 trains in their rolling stock according to Wikipedia. 11 are R160, 9 are R179. The runs 9 R179 trains and there's about 23 in total (spares) so if the MTA makes the full length with R211s and pushes its 4-car R179 sets to the will that allow the line to run entirely R179 or will they run a couple R160s so they can have spare R179s, just going by the way the MTA allocates trains in general?

Trains are only assigned to specific inspection barns. The only reason the East New York R179s do not run on the L or M yet is their CBTC hardwear is not ready yet.

in theory, if it was an absolute emergency, the 179s could run in the M so long as the train does not enter CBTC trackage.

where or what the R211s do beyond pushing the R46s off the A has not been finalized yet. 

So, yeah, today was “backward day”.

Take all the stuff they said over and over to NEVER DO… and then do it.

don’t open the window. Don’t point. Open the doors away from the platform. Don’t watch them close. Don’t sweep the platform.

I had to stop myself multiple time from going off my training.

2 hours ago, FLX9304 said:

Where is the video? 

You don’t need video. Take my word on it… because I was on it.

15 minutes ago, Chris89292 said:

It’s not just rail fans complaining, it’s also average citizens, I don’t blame them tho, if they were to remove the new trains from my home line, I would be mad too, all those trains replacements in the years 2000-2019 weren’t worth it, if they’ll just shift around subway cars, replacing the new with the old, the nyc subway system is indeed strange when it comes to fleet replacements or swaps, anyone outside New York will see this weird as well, I don’t see BART do this, or CTA

BART and the CTA don’t need to have specific rolling stock on specific lines to take advantage of certain technologies.

they ordered the R160s before the CBTC rollout on B division lines other than the L had been figured out. July 2002, for the record.

9 hours ago, JustTheSIR said:

IIRC it was Clifton’s northbound platform and one other station near Tottenville that only let the first 3 cars on the R44s open. That’s gonna have to be a feature

There is already a built in answer for that issue on all R211s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMgHzi0R11U

A deleted scene from "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts" Showing Optimus Prime hunting down a Decepticon hiding as an MTA GM Classic.

On 7/7/2023 at 10:18 PM, CenSin said:

“Ash” is the name of the letter “Æ.” I can’t imagine a two-letter bullet with “7Æ” in it though.

Ash as in the ashes left over from coal burning stoves that used to be in stations. hence why it's the garbage train. Why it's not another "Pick Up" I don't know. maybe someone just wanted to be different. 

I would also like to amend my previous statement about NTTs and extend honorary NTT status to the WMATA 7000 series cars, as they reuse at lot of designs and technology. 

the thought of micromanagement does kind of weigh on everyone, even me, but I also understand they are there for my safety as much as everything else. 

People said the same things about the first-generation NTT cars and their black boxes. I've already been through something that lead to my train needing to be pulled in for download. Had an F job a few weeks ago where we hit an abandoned portable trip device, with no light or cord. 

If someone tries to attack me... which has also already happened... more than once... they'll be on camera. The forward-facing camera could have even made my partner's innocence in the portable trip issue even more obvious, since the tunnel was too dark to see the trip. 

4 hours ago, Bill from Maspeth said:

IDK what's wrong with the posters on this site.  They know damn well that the Pitkin Yard put in leaves Euclid Ave.  M-F at the same time to Far Rockaway, technically it is a shuttle since it starts from Euclid, and for one day the crew (maybe both members were extra people) and instead of "A" signs they used "S" signs instead, and they act like the wheel was just reinvented.  Unbelievable!

I was aboard the train when it came out of the yard and I was the one who opened the doors. One of the train operators, ether the gap to or the assigned one for that trip, set it that way.

the computer plays the shuttle announcement and I just said to myself “Not my circus, not my monkey…” and went and sat down for the ride to Far Rock.

The thing about feeling a difference for someone like me, it depends more on my partner’s operating skills and quirks.

had a guy the other day doing 50 into Utica, a known fast station, yet still brought the train to a perfect stop.

Part of the problem is there are two trains… but only one gap crew per tour.

So for one train the dispatchers had us as an option and the other train they didn’t.

there needs to be a crew per train. 
hell, it might be stressful but if they could at least make it so I get an honest to god lunch break, I would volunteer for the job (it’s pretty good for overtime). Instead of shoving a sandwich down my throat between 125 and 59.

If I say what I am ACTUALLY thinking…

people are actually refusing to get qualified on these trains. It makes running service with them difficult.

some people have said “well, just set them aside till you have enough people”… but that’s not an option.

all that is going to do is prolong the maintenance headache of keeping the R46s running as more and more people stall learning them. It’s giving in to their resistance to change. A LOT of qualified people picked off the A. 
 

folks just need to bite the bullet and learn them. They are not going anywhere.

”you won’t catch me driving that thing…” needs to stop.

okay, here's how all this works. 

The trains in CBTC territory are in communication with lineside "Zone Controllers", the computers that give them the clearance to move. No clearance, you're not going anywhere without an override from control. 

The zone controllers talk to all the trains at once and know where each one is, which is how we can maintain safe spacing. 

A train that isn't or can't talk to the zone controllers is referred to as "Non-reporting". 

Because the zone controllers can't tell exactly where it is, it basically gums up the works.

Non-reporting trains are sent down CBTC territory all the time. It's just when you're in a situation where you need the full benefits of the moving block system, one of those trains showing up throws all that away. 

But when you don't need CBTC's full power, you can get away with it. for example, the "7 Ash". The garbage train that is based out Corona Yard that handles the Flushing and Astoria lines. and yes, "7 Ash" is what it's called.  that operates over CBTC rails but does not use CBTC compatible trains. 

Only we have NTTs, cause that is the name Transit coined for thier modern fleet. 

If it doesn't roll on NYCTA rails, it isn't an NTT.

so... I just spent over 11 hours on the 211 prototype set... 

We have the 211s on the A because the A needs CBTC compatibility. Even if the A was all R68s, they would still be bringing in new trains

… has common sense just evaporated?

Occam's razor… the train operator punched the wrong setting into the system and didn’t bother to change it…

which is exactly, factually, what happened…

which I know because I have been on 4070-79…

ALL DAMN DAY… without a break.

I’m still on her right now… I’m off the clock now, but I’m free… till tomorrow when I have to do this all over again.

I’m working as the “Gap conductor”… I take over when people who aren’t qualified are assigned the train. Turns out not a lot of people are qualified because I was at her controls for nearly 8 straight hours…

the one time I was not was that first run out of Euclid, otherwise I would have changed it to A.

1 hour ago, Ale188 said:

Any new car deliveries??? The MTA kinda lazy dis week 

…almost as if there was a national holiday when not everyone was working…

1 minute ago, Lawrence St said:

I don’t blame you guys, I blame management. This whole extra stuff needs to stop. The information that people actually need is being drawn out by these unnecessary PSA’s.

again... YOU think they're unnecessary. WE don't. Stop acting like your opinion is fact.