Bill from Maspeth

Most work service equipment are former IRT cars so they could be used on both divisions. Powered work cars on the B Division are now retired form passenger service R42's for the garbage trains. You'll be lucky to see any R32's retained for work service. 3642/43 and I believe 3694/95 were being used for the garbage train. No more.

Here is what transit is doing by eliminating service on Calamus Ave. and eliminating the back and forth of the Q18 between 65th St. and 69th St. And I know some of you guys just don't want to hear it. They don't want buses on narrow streets that can't pass each other. Calamus Ave. is very narrow. The b/o's don't want to be accused of snapping off car mirrors anymore! Same reason why the Q39 was taken off Maspeth Ave. a number of years ago and residents of that area have a long walk to a bus as a result. If a garbage truck or ambulance or oil delivery truck is working on these narrow streets it may not be possible to pass these vehicles and a long delay will result. They want to buses to move along. Also I don't like the extension of B57 service along 69th St., Irregardless that the route no longer going to IKEA. Even though it will not be the only route there (thankfully), on time and service consistency will be horrid because of all the traffic on Flushing Ave. It is horrid as it is without this extension.

Much quicker to advance in a gangway train vs. a train with storm doors.

Within the past year. Some errant ATV smashed into it while on layover one Saturday night at Bay Plaza Shopping Center and the bus incinerated.

At first glance, I can live with it. Which depots routes would be assigned to will be interesting.

NYCT tries to keep Nova's and New Flyers separate in the depots. This cuts down on in house training, the mechanics knowing their buses and cuts down on the parts inventories. I realize this may not happen all the time, but NYCT tries their best. This is why Brooklyn is no place for Nova 40'ers. This is why Staten Island is no place for New Flyers. No reason to start now. I realize that bus fans want a mixed fleet at every depot on the property, but................

It would be equally amazing if Grand Ave. had something new to operate on the B38! It works both ways!

Well that's not good, LOL! I predicted to my 2 NYCT Supervisor friends that he'd be NYCT Prez for no more than 12 months. There is a big difference between running Boston's system vs. NY's. I wonder if he left Boston because of the problems with the late arriving and defect prone new cars for the Orange and Red lines? Why NYCT can't promote from within is baffling to me.

New Chief of NYCT, not MTA. There is a difference!

The Nova diesels for NYCT (#'s 8755-8963, which is over 200 of them) were scheduled to begin to arrive in Sept., 2021. To my knowledge none have arrived yet. Therefore I think it's ambitious that 8964-89098 would begin to arrive beginning this November, 9 months away.

Wasn't 3562 the one that was converted to diesel?

You might be surprised to know that 2 days last week subway ridership was 3 million people each day for 2 days in a row. Still feel "no one is riding the subway now"?

The flyover connecting the #1 Line with 207th St. Yard (BMT/IND connection) is single track for non passenger moves only. And as mentioned, an IRT (numbered) route cannot be in passenger service on a BMT/IND (lettered) route because the gap between the train and platform would be too wide. If BMT/IND equipment goes on an IRT line, the platforms would be destroyed as well as damage to the train itself. Consider yourself hereby instructed and go to "nycsubway.org" to learn about the differences between the BMT/IND and IRT cars. You may be surprised to find out all the stuff you think you know but really don't.

In my opinion, the primary B Division work cars will be R42's in order to give the crews reliable air conditioning in the hot weather because we all know the a/c on the R32's is unreliable. Will they keep any R32's for miscellaneous B Division work service? That's up to the bosses.

That was my point the other day in the scrapped buses discussion.

Not pointing the finger at you TJ at all but to the others SIGH! I wish those who report scrap would wait to do so at the point when the bus is towed out of the depot. A bus could be planned to be scrapped, but until the fare box is removed and parts are stripped, the bus could be used for service if no other bus is available. There are too many people who want to be the first to report said scrap and it turns out to be wrong.

Bumped

Schedules on the MTA web site has all Q2's terminating at UBS arena no matter if there is an event going on or not.

LOL, so true! That's what happens when you're both the judge and the jury!

There would be more prep needed in in getting the train ready. Car Equipment would have to make sure the cars have a decent air conditioning reliability. But even so, we all know how unreliable the R32 air conditioning was. Even with running the cars on an outside line, the sun beating down on the windows would make the air conditioning ineffective. I wouldn't even consider the Q being 50-50 underground/aboveground except on the first trip of the day since it's a long way underground from n/b PPk back to s/b PPk (I wouldn't count the 5 minutes each way on the bridge) and a long way above ground/open cut from s/b PPk back to n/b PPk where the a/c can cool down with regular outside air. Running the farewell R32 in this time of year is the best time. Finally, with the drama of the first week and the yard vandalism this week, there are many transit insiders, besides the Transit Museum President, who want this R32 thing to be over with this Sunday and be thankful it's over with.

So do I.....but not gonna happen.

Nope.

By smashing it with a blunt object or a hard kick with heavy boots. There is a bit of hollow behind those seatbacks so that's how they were able to kick it in. That damage is something that cannot be repaired. Either they replaced the damage with a seatback from an out of service car, or 3840/41 were the 2 cars removed from the train. The other car from that pair had a damaged light fixture. Supposedly the train is 8 cars today, which I can verify when I show up later.

I'll gladly take the sticker they applied the R32 as shown above.

What's interesting to me is that I spotted one of those mall cops (a/k/a Allied Security) with his mask under his mouth whenever he was walking the platform at the terminals.