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54 minutes ago, VIP said:

When an incident like this ever occurs, it’s not just 1 person… it’s two at the least but typically it’s a couple of employees. I question your credibility and accuracy of this as this all sounds fabricated. 

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.

23 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

Do subway stations have address's?

21 hours ago, Calvin said:

They do but not in the full format. Stations only have street location, borough with state and zip code. No house or apartment numbers with it. 

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. 

31 minutes ago, darkstar8983 said:

Ohh. Maybe those extra extras are the conductors who carry around the route map for the route they’re working that day because they don’t know the route as well as their home route 

… 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.

On 1/4/2023 at 3:06 PM, darkstar8983 said:

Where would the crews come from? Are  crews CBTC trained?

To run the  that far out of the way you would need the same number of crews you'd use for weekday  service (increased route length PLUS a shuttle  in Astoria). might as well just cut the  back to Times Square and run shuttle buses from Queensboro Plaza to Ditmars Blvd and not mix QB with the GO. You all know I am all FOR R160s back on the  but I don t think this GO will work like it did back in the Bush Era 2004 last time it was done. 

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. 

On 1/2/2023 at 4:24 PM, darkstar8983 said:

Technically, 8313-8376 can run with the R143s 8101-8312 as a single consist (successfully tested on the  a few months back). 

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.

3 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

What trains on weekends are going in and out of 207th St? From what I remember, the only  trains that come out of the yard on weekends is out of Pitkin Yard.

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.

On 12/9/2022 at 7:50 PM, texassubwayfan555 said:

Speaking of Patco and signals, why did the  never install ATC / cab signals on the subway unlike the rapid transit lines run by the CTA, MBTA, SEPTA, and others?

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...

6 hours ago, texassubwayfan555 said:

The R44 B cars have couplers?

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.

On 12/3/2022 at 10:10 AM, darkstar8983 said:

Actually I do and people will just tough it out. There will be some areas hit harder than others I will admit but New Yorkers are tough. I mean look at Astoria. I took away the  and left them with just the current haphazard  service

… dude… having actually worked the L… this is a none starter. We MUST keep the headway the way it is, if not make the headway even smaller. We don’t “tough it out”.

one step at a time.

I find it to be all the damn time from my experience.

Just make sure the jobs you bid on are ones you know you can handle. Don’t bid on something that’s going to be sending you to the Rockaways constantly if you live in, say, New Jersey.

though ironically, I keep getting my jobs as if I got XL. Two weeks I was constantly on 6th Avenue, now I’m going on my 6th working day in a row on the Broadway local… with a 7th tomorrow.

6 hours ago, VIP said:

Wrong. “12-9” means customer came in contact with the train. And it’s any contact, not necessarily restricted to customer under the train.

I’m sorry… to what source do you owe your response?

My source is Rule 20(d) of the MTA Rules and Regulations, edition June 2016, and found on the rule book’s page 21, which emphatically states that radio code 12-9 is for “CUSTOMER UNDER TRAIN”

And…

here it is…

already po’ed as it takes away the B38 branch that runs up towards my house…

They said It will be released this afternoon, so maybe we should all just go grab a sandwich and come back in a hour or so instead of mashing refresh a million times over…

They are doing the press conference right now.

1 hour ago, trainfan22 said:

What a L to be a dude and get dragged off the train by a bunch of women.

Excuse me…? I’m sorry, but last time I checked we can do everyone you can…

and the fact 207 yard is closed due to a GO.

4 hours ago, Wallyhorse said:

Interesting:

I wonder if they would if such only involved Manhattan north of Whitehall they would consider borrowing ENY cars and have the  shuttles run from 95th-Chambers on the or simply extend the  to 95th during those times in place of the .  

You know... in the past, your ideas never made sense. Now that I am actually on the other side of the mirror now... they make even less sense. 

1: A train can't turn at Chambers Street coming from the south.

2: The GO has taken the tunnel out for those three weekends. 

3: on the first of those weekends the Willy B is closed as well.