SUBWAY - Random Thoughts Topic

[Calvin]

32 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

But City Hall and Bowling Green loop are technically revenue tracks, so why is Bowling Green not allowed to be rode on? I normally just enter the last car during weekends and enjoy my time looking at old SF.

For this reason, there are cases that you cannot ride the loop b/c during the rush hour, selected trains will go through the loop but being layed up there till the departure time from the timetable. (About 1 hour for a trip back to the Bronx)

[SevenEleven]

6 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

But City Hall and Bowling Green loop are technically revenue tracks, so why is Bowling Green not allowed to be rode on? I normally just enter the last car during weekends and enjoy my time looking at old SF.

Bowling Green (the inner South Ferry loop) is not a revenue track at all. Only City Hall loop is. 

[Lawrence St]

R143 8277 is back in service and thriving.

[P3F]

I could be wrong, but I believe I have seen, in recent times, trains going around the SF inner loop without fumigating.

[Far rockaway]

Yesterday I saw a cuomo wrapped train on the F line at Jackson hts roosevelt avenue while i was on the r train.

[Calvin]

With all the moves I've been posting on this thread, it'll soon be turned into a roster (in a new thread in the future) 

 

Anyways, 7116-7125 Jerome Av Yard to Unionport Yard

[RailRunRob]

Do  Trains use both the Inner and Outer loop tracks now?

[Lance]

They likely use whatever is available at the time.

[MysteriousBtrain]

Take this however you want.

 

A reliable source from my end it saying the A and C swap is about to begin Monday. That means the C will begin using R46s and the A will begin using 6 sets of R32s.

[biGC323232]

1 hour ago, MysteriousBtrain said:

Take this however you want.

 

A reliable source from my end it saying the A and C swap is about to begin Monday. That means the C will begin using R46s and the A will begin using 6 sets of R32s.

Is this swap due to the  being full length???

[CTK246]

19 minutes ago, biGC323232 said:

Is this swap due to the  being full length???

And if so, where are the extra R160s coming from?

[MTA Bus]

29 minutes ago, biGC323232 said:

Is this swap due to the  being full length???

They might be doing it because of the 53rd Street closure, but I could be wrong.

[R32 3838]

1 hour ago, CTK246 said:

And if so, where are the extra R160s coming from?

The only full length trains running on the C for now is gonna be the R46's. The 8 car R160's will still run on the C for now.

[paulrivera]

The entire  is currently suspended over a relatively minor problem on the Brighton line....

[Via Garibaldi 8]

5 minutes ago, paulrivera said:

The entire  is currently suspended over a relatively minor problem on the Brighton line....

They always do this.  Really becoming annoying.  That leaves only the  train to handle all of the damn crowds.  We need to start raising more hell about subway service, I'm serious.  What I'm becoming fed up with is, we aren't getting the service that is the  says is supposed to be running, and this the case on several lines.  The ongoing signal problems and delays is basically daily.  

[Abba]

The  is most likely done for the day. 

[Daniel The Cool]

49 minutes ago, paulrivera said:

The entire  is currently suspended over a relatively minor problem on the Brighton line....

It's not a minor signal problem. There's a power issue at Brighton Beach.

[paulrivera]

41 minutes ago, Daniel The Cool said:

It's not a minor signal problem. There's a power issue at Brighton Beach.

Oh.... Then that's a completely different situation then.

[RailRunRob]

1 hour ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

They always do this.  Really becoming annoying.  That leaves only the  train to handle all of the damn crowds.  We need to start raising more hell about subway service, I'm serious.  What I'm becoming fed up with is, we aren't getting the service that is the  says is supposed to be running, and this the case on several lines.  The ongoing signal problems and delays is basically daily.  

Someones using the Subways more. 

[Abba]

So the  did start running again.But it seemed like it wasn’t straight service cause it seemed there were no  ,s out of 145 till the ones from Brooklyn made it there.

[Abba]

And also once the (B)s from 145 (from before the incident)went back north there was nothing from Brighton.Did it really make sense to suspend the  ? Maybe.Im wondering though it made sense to restore it being it was already 7pm.

 

 

[paulrivera]

It only made sense to get the  off of the Brighton line. Suspending the whole thing in the Bronx and Manhattan was so extra and unnecessary.

[Abba]

They could have turned them at Kings Hwy? Daniel The Cool was that an option you think? There is no other place really though to turn it. That’s the issue with the  

Edited December 14, 2017 by Abba

[Interested Rider]

When I do go to Manhattan during the week (which is quite rare), i will take the B or the Q. Returning home, I always make my way back to the Q as I know how fast the B is cancelled without any notice.

I remember standing at Columbus Circle waiting on a Friday evening for a B train  for 45 minutes and not hearing anything so I finally took the D to the Q. After that, it was (and is) the Q to get home.

It seems that the B is annulled very frequently for the reasons that the TA gives us all the time. The question then becomes would it not be better if the B was rerouted via either the N or D to Coney Island where (if the problem was resolved) the trains could be rerouted back to the Brighton Line?  

This is the question that I asking of the MTA.

 

 

[Lawrence St]

In rare events, the MTA won't suspended the but rather reroute all trains via West End or Sea Beach, then via Stillwell to return back to Brighton Beach.