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  1. 31 minutes ago, trainfan22 said:

    Also the MTA president said it's time for the cars to take a swim, the MTA president isn't aware that they went back to scrapping cars the old fashioned way? Unless plans changed. I doubt they will go back to reefing for R46 disposal as the stainless steel reef program didn't age as well as it did with the Redbirds.

    you do know what a "joke" is, right? Jokes don't have to be factual. 

  2. There are two factors here that you need to remember. 

     

    1: the system was designed to be interlined. Core capacity is dependent on there being multiple routes, because the terminals do not actually meet the needs to turn back enough trains quick enough. 

    2: Ridership wants and needs don't line up with what makes sense to you on paper. Take ANY service away from Astoria and the locals WILL riot. They don't want just Broadway locals. They want an express. It might not seem like it, but there is logic behind these service patterns. 

  3. 2 hours ago, 1998NewFlyer said:

    So Concourse's yard capacity and if it can hold the B fleet is related to the r211 how? 

    …because there are people who think the entire option 1 R211 delivery can be sent to Concourse and maintained for the D and B.

     

    this is about the potential reassignments as the new cars come online. It’s all tangentially connected in some way.

  4. 7 hours ago, Lex said:

    Off-topic, but I really wish the Track Geometry Car (among other powered MoW equipment) would strictly use electricity instead of diesel. It gets really hard to breathe whenever it passes through. Perhaps that'll be a future development.

    The entire reason it has an onboard power plant is it allows it to work on tracks that have the power cut.

  5. There is an emergency GO for Thursday 2/2 and Friday 2/3 overnights on the A. The southbound track between High Street and Jay street needs emergency work. among other problems, Issues with a switch frog were found via the Track Geometry Car.

    A trains will run in two sections, From 207 to Jay Street Via Rutgers sb and from Utica to Lefferts or Far Rockaway. the Lefferts shuttle is canceled during this project and train service with run to Utica all night from both south terminals. 

    North section trains start and end on the F tracks at Jay and will run light to south of Bergen street to relay. South section trains will terminate on the northbound local track at Utica and relay to the Southbound express to depart. 

  6. The two current shuttle trains are six cars each. The old shuttles were three cars on the outside two tracks and four in the middle.

    Ether way you slice it, while there are fewer trains running, those trains can carry more people at once.

    It’s 10 TPH per track, so 20 TPH for the entire shuttle.

  7. seriously… what’s it take for a girl to get listened to..? When do I get my employee account badge? Is that what it takes for my queer behind to get taken seriously around here?


    To put this in simple terms: train cars and train lines are assigned to specific inspection and maintenance shops.

    the number of lines and trains is decided by how many trains can be processed in a given amount of time in the inspection shop to meet the line’s daily needs plus spare factors.
     

    Concourse shop is the smallest in service, with only 3 bays, each of which can hold 1 train Full length train.

     

    East New York and Jamaica can both hold 8 trains.

    Coney Island can hold 7.

     

    these yards can easily deal with more than one line at a time.

    Concourse, with only three tracks, can not. So it doesn’t matter how many storage tracks a yard has, but it’s shop tracks decide what line is based where.

     

    if the B were made a concourse based line along with the D, it would overwhelm the people working in the barn. The only way to make that change is to spend the money to build a bigger shop building.

  8. On 1/29/2023 at 3:05 PM, R179 8258 said:

    What i think he was referring to what of the (B) and the (D) are based out of Concourse. They would share the fleets (R160s ,R211 whatever they receive ) so does it really matter about the barn track? if they’re sharing the fleet. Like for example Jamaica Yard before they became 100% 160s. They were R46s and R160s and the R46 held up nicely before being phased out. Would it really be a problem if the (B) & (D) are sharing the fleet and only have 3 Barn tracks ? 

    The B is NOT based out of Concourse....

     

    FOR 

    A

    REASON

     

    The Barn at Concourse can hold 3 trains. the amount of trains the barn can process is less than the total number of trains concourse can store. which is why the B and 4 lay up there, but nether are based there. Same as the M can lay up in Jamaica Yard, but it's based at ENY. 

     

    Concourse barn can process enough trains on a regular basis to keep the D, and ONLY the D, supplied with trains. the D requires about 30 trains in the AM rush. the B requires another 25 on top of that. 55 trains, plus spairs, is outside the barn's capacity to handle without a capital investment to expand it. 

     

    Coney Island, whose inspection barn has seven tracks, while storing trains for basically every B division line in south Brooklyn, only actually cares for the trains to the B, N/W, Q and the franklin shuttle. Logically and logistically, it would be simpler to assign 211s to CIY for B service and to try to squeeze them all into Concourse. 

  9. Completely forgot there was a second 211T prototype train coming. I knew all ten from the first were already here 

     

    I actually had to fight the urge to climb up into the first last week to look around. Had a job out of Coney Island yard and it was just parked there, next to the barn, with both cab doors opened. 

  10. There is one little caveat to door operation. We don’t talk about it much, but on CBTC active lines (so the L, 7 and Queens Corridor), it is the computer that allows me to open the doors, not T/O.

    while I do not get the full CBTC readout on the control console like my partner does, I do get status messages. When my train makes a proper stop in CBTC territory, I should see “train berthed” and “CBTC door enable” on my screen, meaning I can open the doors.

     

    however i am not supposed to rely on that, to the point I don’t look at it unless I don’t like the board position want to double check. That I’m good. Some stations have boards that are literally no longer than from the tip of my fingers to my elbow.

  11. 6 hours ago, JustTheSIR said:

    Why would it bother riders?

    because, to quote a certain railway controller, it can cause confusion and delay. 

    More than once I have worked an 8 car train of 60's where the T/O pulled up to the 10 car marker. We have to treat that as a bad stop. 

  12. 2 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

    This may sound stupid, but have the northbound (M) operate at regular frequency and the southbound (M) every 12 minutes. Extend the (R) to 179th St so the (M) does not clog up the Forest Hills relay.

    It breaks the laws of physics. 15 + 15 + 5 is 35 TPH, or roughly a train every 100 seconds. Sixth avenue can’t handle that.

    northbound Ms run normal, southbound Ms run about half as often… so what are you going to do with the extra trains and extra M crews?

  13. 19 hours ago, Siemenslover said:

    I read elsewhere that 63rd must be an express due to requirements from its funding source. Also, 36th st merge would probably cause the same issues. 

    if that was true they wouldn't have trialed the V as the 63rd street service. Before the connection opened they ran full weekday rush hour service on the Queens corridor to test things out with the V as the 63rd street line and the F staying via 53rd. 

     

    part of the reason it got the kybosh was the G. sending the V via 63rd and the R using the cut meant only the F and E would make the transfer at court square. meaning if you were going from Stienway street to Nassau Avenue, that's an extra transfer you need to make. 

  14. 5 hours ago, darkstar8983 said:

    Another weekend of (L) train shutdowns and the MTA again thinks they can pull off a 12-minute headway (M) train and think it will be a sufficient replacement…NO WAY. At each stop from 47-50 Sts-Rockefeller Center, the train was jammed butt to gut and train held an extra 20-30 seconds for the conductor to attempt closing the door. The MTA should go back to 8-minute headways on the weekend (M), utilizing the extra extra crew members. Crowding conditions at some of these stations were unreal and appeared unsafe.

    The Q is timetabled to run roughly 8 times an hour. Add in the 5 Ms and you have 13 trains per hour. That's a train roughly every 5 mintues on a saturday coming and going from 96th street. 

     

    Think about that.

     

     

    1 hour ago, Chris89292 said:

    I don’t think so, it wouldn’t be part of the subway system, it’s just going to be called IBX

    and you know that because?

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