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OMG ENY has XD40s. WTF were they smoking when they thought of this move.

 

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.

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.

Wow that's good I hope those buses run great!

Especially with free wi-fi now you can surf the internet even in the bus!

 

If it works.

When they came in, that was the current scheme at the time. I doubt they gonna put a stripe on them.

 

Just gotta get used to the albino front

 

Maybe not right away, but the MTA will eventually start painting the LFS's and they'll get the blue stripe in front.

Houston, we have a problem:

 

 

This roster is no longer available. I've decided to let someone else deal with the headache and ungratefulness shown in this hobby. We never claim 100% accuracy but we get damn close. Maybe sometime in the future, I will decide to bring back the rosters. 2 and 3 hours are spent each time a roster update is done, so let someone else do it or go to Wikipedia for a fleet roster or to the UTC for a depot roster. Tired, f**k this!

 

 

 

- Trevor Logan, 2012.

 

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.

I don't understand why is the MTA replace the 1998-2000 D60HF's they are not even that old. The Orion V 1999's are not retiring and they are the same age. If anything that should go would be all the 1995-96 buses in NYC

 

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.

I have the D40, which is essentially an older version of the D3100. You will not be disappointed with the 3100.

Are the 6000's at ECH in service yet?

I'm sorry but the Ex BL's just were not meant for the City Street and Workloads......MJQ couldn't keep those things in pristine shape...

 

 

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.

Yeah but those 900's are only 12 as suppose to the 13-14 year old Orion's. I thought they were in better condition. The MTA is becoming really dumb with their buses. Just how they maintain them and retire them.

 

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.

Remember, bringing R32s to Coney Island yard will mean that CIY has to maintain a third type of car (R160, R68/A, R32). A lot of people have already said that this will raise maintenance costs. And, 207th St yard or Pitkin yard will have to learn a type of car that is new to them (the R68/A), possibly raising costs too.

 

Some people on here really think the MTA is full of such idiots that they would turn down something supposedly this obvious, but I think that if putting R32s on the was the clear solution, they would have done it already. Nobody seems to realize that sometimes the MTA knows something that an ordinary railfan wouldn't.

 

Great post.

370 and 372 in at Gleason, those old C40s are getting rarer and rarer. 8854 also at ENY.

 

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.

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.

Is there any 32s on the or is it entirely r46?

 

same for the is it just 32s and 42s or is there some 46 sets left?

 

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)

So the is still mostly R46, huh? I thought all the R42's were going to the .

 

The peak requirement is the equivalent of 380 60-foot cars. There are only 222 R32's and 50 R42's available.

I *think* the game plan *might* have the 1996 RTS repalcing the Bees. LGAs batch of Bees are from 1995. They are actually older than the MTAs 1996 Novas. * Im not 100% on this either that or LGA just happened to need more buses*

 

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.

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.

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.