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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.

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. and you know that because?

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.

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.

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.

well excuse this conductor for trying to not reveal too much information on a internal agency issue... I know the TSS who handled it. The yard dispatcher should have never let the train out of ENY.

some do... ideally if they actually occupy a property lot and also, I guess, if there is someone inside that would be required to get mail, like, say the NYPD transit bureau stations or a retail outlet. for example: Rockaway Park is 238 Beach 116th Street. Stillwell Avenue is 1243 Surf Avenue.

… no… because extra and extra extra list crews don’t have a home line. literally the only thing as an “XX” I am limited to is the B division non-OPTO. XL have picked into one of the districts but they are still available if their tour and RDOs match the job.

Things like this are the entire reason Extra List and “Extra Extra” List (what I am) are things. We go where we’re needed, when we’re needed. Also, many people choose to work six day weeks. Also, crews whose jobs are cut short can be transferred for the day. these things happen all the time.

In the past they have sent the F to Euclid and just extended the G to Coney. Don’t see why that’s not still an option.

yeah... that person is in deep trouble, but for now still has a job.

No they can not. That was not a “successful” test. That wasn’t even a test. That was an accident that should NEVER have left the yard! you guys all just assumed it was an intentional test.

Then you remember wrong. Using the Saturday base timetable; there are 10 trains that enter service at 168 in the morning and 10 that lay up from there in the evenings. Five Saturday road C train TO jobs are scheduled to end at 207 yard. I’ve been partnered with several when assigned to the C.

No, it doesn’t save anything, because now the trains can’t get to 207 yard without relying and deadheading even MORE… also 145 lower SUCKS as a terminal from an operating perspective. If there is no train in the station and I need to get from one platform to the other, it’s ether up and down multiple flights of stairs or climb down to the roadbed and cross the center track.

Except the M7/As are completely custom and the 179s are actually built on the “Movia Metro” design platform. personally the only thing I like about them is the cup holder on the cab door. Still amazed no one thought of that sooner.

Do you ride EVERY train and EVERY bus? just because some are running at pre/pandemic crowds doesn’t mean they all are. that’s like saying “oh, it’s snowing out, climate change isn’t a thing.”

Line up is when the signals and switches are set as the train needs to proceed in correct path.

Same Reason they stopped painting the trains. Money... time,,, resources... If you think of a question of "why didn't the MTA do (insert thing here" Money is the answer about 90% of the time. the other roughly 10% is because someone else stopped them. Ether the politicians or the unions. We're kinda trying our damnedest to get a tracking system up and running in the environment we have to work with. Put it this way... in roughly two weeks... my grandmother will celebrate her 95th birthday... And we're still dealing with hardware built around the same time...

The SIRTOA cars were never formed into fixed sets like their subway counterparts. You could theoretically couple them together in any order and length that would fit. They even experimented with 5 car trains not that long ago.