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  1. RailBus63
    Exactly - the bus is owned by Nassau County, not the MTA.
  2. RailBus63
    SBS will not happen until the bus lanes are in place and the traffic signal priority system is ready.
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    (Duplicate post)
  4. RailBus63
    I'm sure there were people thirty years ago saying 'Omigod ... ______ Depot has RTS's? What the **** were they smoking when they thought of this move.' Many people were unimpressed by the RTS upon first sight and weren't convinced they were going to last very long. If the Xcelsior becomes the new standard NYC bus, they will need to run at any depot.
  5. RailBus63
    I visited the city a couple of times (June and August) and had no problems finding R32's on the A, whether I was railfanning or just catching a ride.
  6. RailBus63
    If it works.
  7. RailBus63
    Maybe not right away, but the MTA will eventually start painting the LFS's and they'll get the blue stripe in front.
  8. RailBus63
    This is the story of the Internet in a nutshell. There were some really cool rail and transit enthusiast sites in the mid to late 1990's that gradually were taken down when their webmasters got tired of pouring their heart and soul into something only to see it nitpicked apart and trashed by others. The anonymity of the Internet often brings out the worst sides in people.
  9. RailBus63
    I don't know about recently, but the MDBF numbers I saw a few years ago showed that the RTS's and the Orion V diesels were much more reliable than the D60HF's. The same thing happened in Mississauga Ontario - the transit agency there kept their original groups of Orion V's for 15 to 17 years but has retired multiple orders of New Flyer artics right at the 12-year mark.
  10. RailBus63
    I have the D40, which is essentially an older version of the D3100. You will not be disappointed with the 3100.
  11. RailBus63
    Are the 6000's at ECH in service yet?
  12. RailBus63
    They're standard Orion V diesel transit buses - how are they any different from the 600's and the 6000-6300's? Orion didn't build them any lighter just because they were going to a suburban transit system.
  13. RailBus63
    The MTA is replacing both the C40LF's and the Orion V CNG's but some of these old buses need to stick around a little longer until the Orion 3G CNG's arrive. Since the authority has decided that CP and SC will get the new Orions, it probably makes sense to have them keep using the O5's they are familiar with than to move over the old C40LF's andf have to train the drivers and mechanics on a bus they would have only for a few months.
  14. RailBus63
    Great post.
  15. RailBus63
    The 800-900's weren't rare at all when I was in Brooklyn last weekend - they far outnumbered the newer C40's on the B11, B16, B35 and B68.
  16. RailBus63
    The number of trains for each type of car in the assignment index shows what is scheduled to be on the road. There are spare cars too, of course. In the case of the R42's, there are three 10-car trains currently assigned to 207th Street so the third train would typically be in the yard or shop.
  17. RailBus63
    There are actually more R46's on the than the older car types: 14 trains of R32's 2 trains of R42's 22 trains of R46's The should be all R46 (18 trains)
  18. RailBus63
    The peak requirement is the equivalent of 380 60-foot cars. There are only 222 R32's and 50 R42's available.
  19. RailBus63
    For most of their service lives, though, the ex-Bee Line O5's were not pushed as hard up in Westchester than the RTS's were in the city.
  20. RailBus63
    Saturday 6/2 update: R42 set to Far Rockaway went south through Rockaway Blvd at 3:42. Didn't catch it coming back north as of 4:45. A second R42 set was operating to Lefferts and passed through 104-Oxford at 4:12 and then back north through 80-Hudson at 4:33. The rest of the trains were what seemed to be an even mix of R32's and R46's. S was three 8-car trains of R46's. One R32 set and one R42 set were laid up at Rockaway Park yard.
  21. RailBus63
    I’m more than OK with FIND displays on an orphaned line like the 7. The FIND is better IMO because it shows only the stations the train is stopping at, while on the 7 a strip map will show every station and depends on the customer to know that the light designates whether this train is stopping there or not.
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