Bill from Maspeth

207th Yard Car Wash is out of service

Maybe it ran express from Utica to Euclid?

When M/K got the cars to be GOH'ed, some cars needed more work than others. So, if one car of a set was finished and the other wasn't, rather than hold the completed car, they mated it with another car whose natural mate was not finished also. So, we wound up mis-mates. Additional mis-mates off the top of my head are 3444/3777, 3445/3468. There are many, many more. The complete list of mis-mates are in the Retired/R32 section in the following website: "nycsubway.org."

Now what?

It's all show at these busy high profile Manhattan stations. No "customer" is going to mess around with THEM! But ain't happening at these low profile stations on the outskirts of the system and in high crime neighborhoods. There will be lots of "customers" who won't pay, who won't want to, who claim they have no money, despite some of them dressed in expensive clothes, jewelry, shoes, and the skells who they just want to get rid of. 2 cops at a station "making sure" everybody pays simply isn't happening. Why? Because the cops want to go home to their family at the end of the day. Can you blame them? how would you handle it if YOU were the cop? Look at PO Diller who got killed the other night. Just going up to some dudes blocking a bus stop, with the intent of getting them out of there. Now he's dead.

No. The operators at College Point do whatever they want. It's a total lack of supervision.

The worst performing ones, no matter which yard they are assigned to, will be retired first. On this board we have no way of knowing if the ones recently transferred to CIYD, right now presumably to increase the spare factor, are good performers or bad performers. A good performer today, can very well become a horrible performer next week/month because they are all old and tired cars. Which sets will be the first ones to be retired are made by the suits downtown. I wish you guys would hop on the R46 train and enjoy the ride, rather than always wanting to be the first guys to find out the order of retirements............whenever that starts to happen.

Not 154 (thats an R44), but 1054.

I'm waiting to hear who the first person will be who complains that he didn't get his final pictures of these OG's.

Technically that's Stillwell Yard. And it looks like it's amongst the work trains, so maybe something is planned for those cars. A clue would be the day "SimplyMyself" saw them and took the video vs, the day "zackster" saw them last week.

IDK. But I do remember 402.

Wasn't 402 the car that hit and pushed the bumper block toward the drink at Tottenville some years ago? If so, that car is off the property to my knowledge.

You're not getting that because the propulsion today are AC motors. "Classic Propulsion" are DC motors. AC motors are more dependable.

Who said? Since the "coneheads" are new buses, procedures can change.

It's not necessary to list transfers between JFK & FR because they share the same fleet and are listed as one depot on all Bus Rosters.

We have separate discussion boards here having to do with both the Brooklyn and Queens redesigns.

That train had better not be leaving the yard for service.........because the barrier springs are not in position between the 5th and 6th cars. I would imagine it's a transfer to 207YD or a regular yard move in Pitkin.

Any bus in said depot was assigned to any route in said depot. Same is true for today. A given bus in a depot is not assigned to the same route. This is how NYCT operates.

God forbid! Everybody wants to be the one with the scoop that a certain bus has been retired. And how many times have we seen that the information is WRONG! I've been saying the same thing on this site often. A bus is scrapped when it has been towed out of the depot. Not before!

One track of the 3 is for wheel truing only. Inspections: they take priority. They must be done on the day specified. If there is a defect that can't be repaired that day, it has to wait to go back in so the next group of cars can be inspected the next day, but in the overwhelming majority of cases, the inspected cars would be good to go out the next day for service. The backlog of "trouble cars" have to wait. But in the case of the Concourse R68's the troubles are repaired pretty quickly since the D does not have a large spare factor. Even if they had more spares, more cars would have to wait their turn to get in the barn. And that statement goes for every barn. As long as the D makes full service every rush hour, it's all good.

7200 running on the Q59 as I post this at 1602 hours.

Maybe they have, internally.

Probably for wheel truing. It's a regular thing for R46's from Pitkin to get their wheels cut there.

Please familiarize yourself with this board as well as nycsubway.org to educate yourself about the equipment. The mta does not build subway cars. That job is contracted out. R46's from the mid 70's are being replaced now and all their replacements are not even ordered as of today. Here they are replacing about 750 cars. There are over 1,000 IRT cars older than the R68/68A's. These should be replaced prior too. So we have a long way to go before we can order R268's which would ultimately replace the R68/68A's.

You asked what a 12-9 is. It's someone struck by a train in any matter. Could be on the platform (train striking someone while the train was either entering or leaving the station, Could be the person under the train too