Sorry, SIR: No new cars for Staten Island Railway

[metsfan]

I lol'd.

 

:cool:

 

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[Messino]

 

 

If someone can correct me, the shoe is not compatible to run on SIR third rail

Plus the volts, SIR runs 600, LIRR M3 runs 750. You have to modified eletrical systems, plus build new substation for M3s.

 

They dont need to build a new substation for this. The trains themselves would be modified for 600 Volts if this were even going to happen which it wont...

[Nova RTS 9147]

I guess you never got the chance to take a look under one before. They are on par with NYCT R44s.

 

Apparently not if the chose them over NYCT R44s.

[KeystoneRegional]

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[GojiMet86]

I don't think so. The only freigh, if I remember correctly, right now is in Arlington and Port Ivory, and those tracks are not connected to the line currently used.

[N-Trizzy2609]

Lately, NY and NJ have been making extremely stupid moves on their transit systems. This is not the stupidest but it damn well comes close!

[KeystoneRegional]

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[S78 via Hylan]

If the SIR does get the R46's, it will have 64 cars again which is enough to make 16 trains since the SIR uses 4-cars even though it sometimes uses 5 during the morning rush hour.

[MTR Admiralty]

Well, both of NY and NJ are having budget problems, that is why there are so many stupid moves, but I agree with you.

Even if they have the money, they will still misuse it. So it's not like, once the MTA is out of fiscal trouble, everything is go.

[Grand Concourse]

 

If the SIR does get the R46's, it will have 64 cars again which is enough to make 16 trains since the SIR uses 4-cars even though it sometimes uses 5 during the morning rush hour.

If SIR gets the R46s, they really should not split them up and leave them in sets. Or give SIR the AA pairs so late nights they can run 2-car trains. I understand it'll kill flexibility, but the NYCT sets should not be running as single units imo.

[S78 via Hylan]

If SIR gets the R46s, they really should not split them up and leave them in sets. Or give SIR the AA pairs so late nights they can run 2-car trains. I understand it'll kill flexibility, but the NYCT sets should not be running as single units imo.

 

I agree with you there.

[KeystoneRegional]

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[MTR Admiralty]

Exactly, wasting the money on stuff unneeded at the point of time, but I believe stuff will be a GO when the is out of a fiscal crisis, but at a slow pace, but everything might be a GO or return to normal, ...

"Still will be a GO?"

You want general orders everywhere?

[KeystoneRegional]

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[Paul Uhland]

Those "new" overhauled R44 car sets look fine, rode 'em during '03 and '05 visits, have a few more years left.

The original, 1925 B&O rattan, pullover seat cars ran reliably until 1972, were not very pretty but were sturdy, dependable old warhorses, rode them late '40s til 1957 when we moved to NM.

BTW, M-3s are commuter coaches, not meant for rapid transit heavy rail SIR service. LIRR cars were used toward the end of SIRT service because nothing else was available or quickly adaptable.

[Paul Uhland]

Goji...freight service on now-isolated SIR Tottenville line ended years ago. The AK liftbridge to Jersey was re-activated. CSX runs trash trains from Fresh Kills , containers from Howland Hook Container Terminal, use the rebuilt Arlington yard on their way off-Island. Old North Shore SIRT tracks are abandoned/gone from South Avenue to St. George.

Apparently, FRA standards on SIR, no longer needed, ended in 1988.

Another MTA study is looking at running North Shore light rail with a Bayonne Bridge connection to HBLR.