Kamen Rider

get logged into TENS (will require you to download the 2FA app "Duo". actually, DUO is required for just about EVERYTHING we do online) also get the "INSIGHT" app on your phone. Put following numbers into your contact list (for obvious reasons I am not going to write them out where anyone can see them, you should do at least some work for this) The RCC communications desk. useful especially if you need to get in touch with a union rep. I called in while off duty a few months ago to report some subway surfers. the Crew office, you're going to be talking to them a lot. Sometimes they even call you with assignment offers*. the IVR, can tell you jobs for the next few days (when they bother to upload the information...) *A recurring feature of your near future will be "Board Jobs"... basically you are the on-call backup. you report to a terminal station and just sit there... and sit there... and sit there... Put it this way... I've taught myself how to solve a Rubik's Cube while sitting there... And sit there... until one of two things happens... Your 8-hour shift runs out and you go home, or you are given a job someone else has called out from or was never filled. It might not be on your tour. I'm midnights and my board jobs often end up with AM jobs. every once in a while, I've had a board job, and the crew office has called me a few hours or so beforehand, asking if I can report to someone else for a full job.

Since it will probably be tonight you do it, Goliver, take your time climbing on the train and remember three points of contact at all times. you will get a vest, gloves and safety goggles before hand. (Also do some stretches before your attempt.) tomorrow, you will get more of your basic gear. 1: MDC/Vapor key. This is the key that does all the magic 2: “R9 key” this locks and unlocks the end doors and is used to cut out doors that aren’t working. Also used to key oneself on or of R68 cars. You will also get a badge, and a few other loose items that are still important. IRT personnel also get the “Shield” for 145th street. On Monday you will get the rest of your gear from material control, which is located in 34th street on the 8th avenue line. Items like your radio, flashlight and escape mask. then you will deadhead to a yard for your first day of class in the train yards. They try to stagger the class arrival times so you’re not all there at once, which can throw off your normal classroom schedule. roughly, you will spend one week on each family/ type of train. One week on the NTTs, one week on the 46s and one week on the 68s.

You only get off on days 248 is closed and those days will be made up, because the school has effectively moved your RDOs for that week. for example, my class had a three day weekend because the school was closed for July 4th, which was Monday last year. They did this by making us SM RDOs for that week, meaning I was posting on the L on a Saturday.

Well... there is a GO this weekend where the D is only running from 205 to 34th. the Q has it's own GOs going in the tunnel under Flatbush avenue, so the through Q between Stillwell and 96th/2nd will run via the west end and use the D's platforms at Stillwell, while a shuttle will run between Stillwell and prospect Park.

I mean, having been on the corridor at least two days a week for past two to three months, I was under the impression the Zone Controller doing its job as advertised was the exception, not the norm.

Between the two, at the Parsons end

Everything about the project save for its most basic details is in up in the air, magic 8 ball "ask again later" territory. They could move the 10 car R179s over to the C and slowly make the A pure R211 for as far as we know. I mean, when I took the familiarization course for them, they said they'd be ready for service in late spring... only for them to enter service that Friday.

that's assuming the union can stop fighting itself for five damn minutes... sigh... we pay you guys to fight management for us, not each other FFS... I'm going to be honest with you... If you're coming into this still thinking this is a simple, straightforward job... You are in for the rude awaking of a lifetime. When your partner commits a cardinal sin and you're BIE and you're trying to get RCC on the radio and they can't hear you and you've got a dozen angry passengers at your window demanding to know why you're not moving... You will really question your decision. When you see a person standing on the edge of the platform with a cane in his hands like he's up to bat, ready to attack you as you pass... You Will really question your decision. When you have to clear out a train so it can be sent back to the yard and you're left wondering if the person you're currently trying to wake up is even still alive... you will really question your decision. When you're assigned to clear out trains at a last stop due to construction and the other conductor who is assigned with you disappears for hours, leaving you alone with all the "wonderful" people... you will really question your decision. When people refuse to take "I don't know what other trains are doing, I only know what I was explicitly told I will be doing" as an answer... you will really question your decision. That last one was only this morning. there were several rail replacement projects the cropped up unannounced and my F train was rerouted, first express on sixth, then over the A via Cranberry to Jay. I had been given explicit instructions by a TSS on the platform 57th/6th, not by the tower nor RCC. There was no GO, no papers, no preplanned announcements. I was conductoring by the seat of my pants, and when people asked me questions about what other trains will be doing, they would not accept "I don't know" as an answer. This is one thing you really need to understand about passengers. If I have to explain how they view us in as simple a term as possible... They think we're The Borg. They think we have a hive mind that always knows what everyone else is doing. There was also at least one person who was confused when we pulled in at Fulton Street and asked if there were no A's... because he didn't consider the A was fine and we were the ones who had the problem,

Saw it this morning. They turned what had been a a full Diamond X-over into a single cross over, with the turnouts facing againts the normal direction of traffic.

If they assign you a lot of board jobs, OT is not going to be a problem. my last few weeks have all easily gone past 50 hours, with like, one exception. This past Thursday and Friday were both 12 hour days for me. And that’s not calculating bonus time, that’s just straight how long I was on the clock for. The largest total to date for one week that I’m aware of, was back in February. 68 hours in total. 8 hours of that was my “holiday pay” for Presidents’ Day, you get that no mater what. the rest was just working a lot of overtime that week.

The Steinway Tube is laughing at your right now.

except I didn't say "Brooklyn Bridge-Chambers Street". did I? If I'd meant Chambers Street, I would have said Chambers Street... Cause I'm the kind of person who gets sufficiently technical that I call the N and Q platforms at Canal Street the "Canal Street- Bridge Line Platforms"... in my PA announcements to my passengers. Like... Does anyone think of Chambers Street when they hear "Brooklyn Bridge" by itself? I mean, most importantly, Chambers Street doesn't now, nor ever did it have, multiple spurs to its south that it could have lost one yesterday. It has the one relay track, R3-4. Brooklyn Bridge, on the other hand, had 2 tracks spurring off the loop south of the downtown platform. Track 1 and Track S. As of yesterday, track 1 is now history,

… how many spots on the subway are known as “BROOKLYN BRIDGE”…

As of yesterday, one of the spur tracks coming south of Brooklyn Bridge is permanently out of service.

Forgetting to turn it back on is a risk. air comfort is always supposed to be on unless passing in proximity to an area where a smoke condition is present. it’s why the switch is always next to the car lights switch, you turn one on, so should the other. you also have to be careful because you don’t know what’s wired into what. For example, on the R46s, they ran out of room in the circuiting, so the side LCD signs are wired into the HVAC. Turn off the HVAC on those and you turn off the side signs.

Simple answer... let them "conflict". The system was designed around interlining. Also, once again, ridership prefences are not taken into account and you basically are forcing anyone trying to get a very early flight out of Kennedy to switch to a shuttle.

with the exception of two PM Ds that terminate on the Culver platform and then run lite to Broadway Lafayette, there really isn't any mixing of trains on the Culver platforms at Stillwell. It's not like how B put-ins have to run through the N and Q platforms to get to Brighton Beach. What's more, complex interlockings like Stillwell will retain their physical signals even under CBTC.

They're on the roof so they can be easily swapped out and replaced if they break.

Saw her this morning. About 10AM south bound at Canal street. She was pulling in bound for Ozone Park as the E I was working was leaving. Would have probably been able to make a connection to her if there wasn’t flagging slowing everything down.

that’s a lot of assumptions on your part… starting with the fact that such a project is even in the cards right now. This current GO is for electrical cable work, as has a lot of the GOs on the line the last few months.

track work important enough the line has a 10 MPH slow zone in effect at all times between prospect and 7th for the next three weeks.

Too much transferring. Riders don’t want that. They do not want to sacrifice convenience for speed/ frequency.

So… the order hath come down from on high…. we’re not supposed to use the CCTV system unless explicitly told to do so by supervison. that was obviously going to happen but it does beg the question… why put it where it will be easy for us to use in the first place? Why give it an entire screen on the console?

yeah, that's not "moving with the doors open", that's it settling due to gravity. Made it sound like the train successfully took power and started accelerating. Now, for the record, all trains come with a "side door bypass" mode. this cuts out the indication system and allows us to move a train with a stuck open door out of the way. So you may see clips and videos and hear stories of people seeing trains with the doors all wide open and moving, but those are ALL going to be trains that are not in service. Were that to happen, In my case. as conductor, I would have to ride in the car with the stuck door to make sure no one tries to board should we be forced to come to a stop with said door abreast a platform, say if my partner has to punch for a lineup... You would very much think this is one of those things where it would be common sense not to do that. A train with its lights off and just one door open pulls into the station with the door already open, should be a sign that ether the train isn't collecting passengers or that you're about to star in a horror video game... But you just know someone did it anyway and that is the reason we have this policy.

To answer everyone about the differences, some include: Cab layout: The controls for the HVAC and car lights are mounted on the bulkhead wall next to the seat. the cab heater control is now touch screen based instead of a knob (on the NTTs) or an actual high voltage circuit breaker on the SMEEs. The master controller is in the center of the operating consoles, like on the IRT, instead of off to the right by the window. The console has three TOD screens now, which can be set up to the user's preferences. Specific to the 211Ts are crew operated ditch lights next to switches for HVAC and cabin lights. general changes The CCTV system the abilty to unlock and open the end storm door while on ground level One truck on one A car per set is non-motorized, with one axle on said truck completely free wheeling When we key open the doors, or put the train in "partial close" mode, it affects both door panels in the crew door (which is the term for the doors that can be controled seperately so we can open or close them as needed).