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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.

Division of car equipment likes uniformity. If they could have it so that a shop has only 1 type of train, they would do it that way. unfortunately life doesn't like to play ball like that.  

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. 

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.

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.

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

What i think he was referring to what of the  and the  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  &  are sharing the fleet and only have 3 Barn tracks ? 

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

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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. 

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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. 

The problem with that is the space between the Q runs is for the T.

One thing about sleep apnea, take is SERIOUSLY. 
 

I have a naturally narrow throat, it has nothing to do with my neck size.

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.

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. 

2 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

This may sound stupid, but have the northbound  operate at regular frequency and the southbound  every 12 minutes. Extend the  to 179th St so the 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?

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. 

Restored as of Monday. 

should point out the reconstruction of the Major Deegan will demolish what's left of Segdwick Avenue

I mean... I would assume the pick up is in 59 Master. 

5 hours ago, darkstar8983 said:

Another weekend of  train shutdowns and the MTA again thinks they can pull off a 12-minute headway  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 , 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?

1 hour ago, U-BahnNYC said:

I think 99% of people would rather take a chance with those curves than be stuck onboard a stalled train underground with a mentally ill homeless man smoking up a storm. 

At least, that is what traumatized me. And the conductor did not make a SINGLE announcement or explanation for almost 20 mins. 

You are assuming quite a bit there. Let's say I'm standing by the right hand side window (what we call "onside') of my cab. Facing foward, I should be seeing the route Bullet out the front window. 

When the R46 takes a really tight curve... I'm seeing the other cab's plug door and straight through to the other car's passenger compartment. Something I should not be able to look straight into standing next to the cab window.

On 1/12/2023 at 7:02 AM, Lawrence St said:

@Trainmaster5 or anyone else who’s a T/O, I got a question about the 42nd St Shuttle.

Ive been watching a few RFW videos and noticed that going S/B from Grand Central to the merge with Lexington Ave, how there’s only space for two tracks (one is the still standing Shuttle Track and the other the former express track), but wasn’t this alignment four tracks right next to each other after the curve? Or were the NB local and express tracks filled in & walled off?

the NB trackways swung further away, but the northbound tunnel is not only still there, it's how one gets to Grand Central Tower.

I linked to the timestamp. This is the point where the Northbound track leaves the original tunnel. The current NB local ramp was dug out beneath the original NB local. behind that white door is the remaining northbound tunnel. that wall is actually relatively new, like, late 90s-ish. When I first started going on transit museum tours with my grandfather in the mid 90s, that wall wasn't there and the NB 6 would just be barreling at us until it dove down and to the side. 

2 hours ago, R32 3838 said:

the reason why they are unreliable because they chugged the R32s prematurely thinking the R211s would be in service in 2022

There is a saying "Correlation is not causation". The 46s are not unreliable because the 32s are gone, the 32s weren't exactly perfect ether. 

The 68/As are more well behaved trains on the whole… the only problem from my perspective is their super narrow cabs (I often leave my stuff in the alternate cab so I can move around easier).

if we had the capacity to, we would have started chucking the the 46s already. Their parts are wearing thin and the delays on the 211 order is all that is keeping them running.

some of the things I’ve heard from supervision… it’s not good.

could be worse… but it’s not good.

It’s not fully that Concourse Yard is small… it’s that Concourse BARN is small. Three tracks.

just enough to keep the D fleet in rotation. B has no problem laying up there but the shop can’t handle that many trains.

They will occasionally play some nonsense with you.

I had a board job last night and they gave me a job that was listed as open on the sheets… so a job that had been sitting open. A job they could have given me from the get go…

because I’ve had moments where the crew office will call me an say “we have something for you if you can make it there in time…” instead of going to the board job.

Put it this way... I thought everything was fine and dandy with it myself... until I mentioned it to another TSS while sitting next to him talking in the crew room.

He said 143s and 160s can't run together.

I show him the video. His jaw drops and not in the good way.  

A few weeks later, I ask the other TSS on that line and shift what happened and he explained the yard dispatcher made a mistake. While the crew should have called it out, if it was on the put in sheets, that's what they do. this falls mostly on the dispatcher for failing to correctly assemble the train.