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Additionally… excuse me (runs out room, comes back with bullhorn dialed all the way up) THEY ARE PROTOTYPES! (puts bullhorn down) there is nothing that says a full production run HAS to be built exactly as these two have been built. changes can still be made.

Removing a service that has worked for 35 years because some Armchair who think’s they’re the next Reece Martin (who I don’t always agree with ether) says so… right, that makes total sense… </s>

or... perhaps... leaving well enough alone.

I would like to state for the record that I did not share the bulletin to anyone.

It was an internal news bulletin. I just figured you guys should have fair warning that major changes are coming without going into too much detail. you’ll have some answers come Monday, don’t worry.

dude... just because a trackway exists does not mean it needs to be used for passenger service. We use the 135 spurs all the time for non-revenue moves and storage.

Starting this weekend, there will be static metal fences installed at certain stations along the edges of the platform. Trains will need to line up exactly with openings in these fences to allow passengers on and off.

Finally saw the R68 Apple the other day. Something that has long eluded me.

Before I start, I would like to touch on the “it would be too short”… 145 to the Trade Center is 20 stops. A one way trip on the Canarsie line is 24 stops. so it’s really not that short, when you think about it. After all, a north/south mile in Manhattan is 20 blocks. When you do that math, a Manhattan local would get you about 8 1/2 miles. That being said, like I said, there are a lot of logistical issues to go over before one can really consider such a plan. what yard would each service use, and by extension, what restrictions would those yards put on the lines? whoever comes out of 207 for the 168 service, you’re stuck with the 8 car 179s. They’re not there because of a shortage, technically, they’re there because they’re all the 207 shop can support. The inspection board tracks can’t hold a full 10 car train, which means one of two things; you ether only service 5 cars at a time, leaving about 1/3 the shop track empty… or you get shorter trains. And given the load on the C, it made sense to order the 8 car units. In the old days of married pairs and single unit cars, you just needed to uncouple 2 and service the other 8, problem solved. sure the C has R46s and the A will park in 207 yard, but those 46s are Pitkin Shop’s responsibility. just because a line can layup a train in a yard, does not mean they are based in that yard. 8 car 179s layup in Pitkin… but they’re the reverse, “property” of 207. going with your idea… the B would have to use the C’s R179s. The C would use the D’s R68s out of Concourse and the D would have to become a Coney Island based line. as it is right now: the C needs 21 trains in the AM and 19 in the PM. The B needs 25 in the AM and 23 in the PM. And the D required 29 in the AM, 28 in the PM and because of the three it’s the only one that currently runs overnight, it required 11 trains for that. Moving them around now, throws all of that out of whack without considering if the yards and shops can support such a move.

Top 10% station.

Yeah, there’s unconfirmed chatter the M is going to be going to Chambers again, which is the reason the current version of the GO ends mid February. I guess we’ll get some kind of clue next week.

Pretty sure this is the counterpart of the work done last summer that had the F express Manhattan bound. IIRC, that was switch replacement at Brairwood…

They don’t load the actual GO documents to our internal site until about a week or so before hand, but it’s probably track maintenance on 53rd street. Place hasn’t gotten a break since August…

Technically I said about 8:30… which is also about the time the E and F start all local service southbound. The 2027 M… that’s the last counter-clockwise train to depart Continental. (Yes, I’m one of those weird ducks who doesn’t like using North and South for the closest thing we have to a circle line) the last clockwise train is the 2037 out of Met that arrives at 2156. So you have about an hour and 20 minutes of peak direction M service arriving at Continental that doesn’t go back.

One positive of keeping the F on 63rd, during the M’s operating hours it allows a one transfer connection to the G for QB local stations. Sending the M on 63rd means that will be a two transfer trip 24/7 as it currently is. additionally, on the base schedule, the M ends service on the QBL rather early. Under normal circumstances, the last M train to depart Forest Hills is the 2027. meaning the F would have to switch over to the other tunnel with the 2032 out of 179.

The problem with this plan really pops up when discussing car assignments. First of all, half the reason the service patterns operate the way they do now is because of what yards are where and what they can handle. Car Equipment makes that call, not us. Second of all, the C and B were switched in part because the B was not a full-time operation uptown. this meant the A had to cover 155 and 163 when the B wasn't running there. so unless you intend to institute Brighton Express service on Saturday and Sunday, then every daytime Saturday and Sunday A would have to cross to the local and then back to the express. that, plus making those two extra stops, will slow down A service.

The 63rd street tube allows more F service. And I’m not sure they’re keen on the idea of having the F bounce between the two tubes every day.

there is an at home version of the first round test (had to do that one myself), but the second round does require going to the sleep lab. first time in a bed other than my own in over 5 years at that point and it was one of the worst nights sleep I'd ever had. To my perspective I didn't even fall asleep, turns out I got a couple of hours in. must have passed out and didn't even notice.

I guess when it rains, it pours. F train jumped the tracks between West 8th and Neptune.

Another important tip/reminder for you all… I should not have to say this… but long and the short of it circumstances from a recent day at work compels me to say to you all: HAVE YOUR TOOLS WITH YOU! Even if your job seems like a milk run things can and do go wrong. no I didn’t do anything wrong, this was someone else’s mistake, but I don’t want to any of you get taken out of service.

With the Mainline A division’s ATS system, everything is handled from control outside of the terminal dispatcher’s work. Control handles the switches. Control sets the lineups.

I mean it’s literally what it says on the tin, cutting out, disconnecting, the brakes for that car/cars there are some hidden spots where there are controls to turn off the brakes on a car, allowing it to be moved if the brakes would otherwise be on.

Firstly, it was the 6th car, the cars in between have had their controls cannibalized, along with the fact the third car, like the other 5, wouldn't not be mechanically connected to the back half of the train where everything works. secondly, if you're running lite, you're not allowed to stop within stations unless it's to punch, drop off/pick up personal (a TSS or an RCI for example), or in the event of an emergency, Lite trains are supposed to stop outside of the station until they are sure they can continue on beyond the station.

when we cut out the brakes on a train, the trip cock does nothing.

“You’re a (b word)! You’re a (p word)! You’re a racist!” did he really think I haven’t heard all that before?