P3F Posted February 9, 2018 Share #17776 Posted February 9, 2018 1 hour ago, kosciusko said: Provisions for a station possibly? I would also like to know if. Former connection to the Polo Grounds Shuttle (9th Avenue El) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RailRunRob Posted February 9, 2018 Share #17777 Posted February 9, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, Lawrence St said: Why do the tracks at 161st St separate from each other then rejoin each other again? 3 hours ago, kosciusko said: Provisions for a station possibly? I would also like to know if. Start at about 13:00 mins for the Shuttle.. At one point you could to Woodlawn to South Ferry via an elevated route on 9th or 6th. Cool to imagine that ride. I do remember the Remnants of the Third Avenue line close as I got to the old els. Edited February 9, 2018 by RailRunRob 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted February 9, 2018 Share #17778 Posted February 9, 2018 22 hours ago, RR503 said: Seen on Monday at Jay st. Train in question was a southbound . <pic removed> Edit: fixed it... There are a bunch of these random codes embedded into the 46s' side signs, including "LONG ISLAND RR", "WALK THRU TRAIN" and "SKIP-STOP". There are also codes for every B-Division station that isn't a part of the Eastern Division. 21 hours ago, Bosco said: I think there are LIRR codes on these trains too... in case these were to run on a railroad line in an emergency. More likely, there were included in anticipation of an event where the subway would provide some sort of shuttle service between Metro-North/LIRR stations. The most notable of which was back in the early '90s where Amtrak was threatening a strike, which would've prevented the LIRR from running trains into Penn Station. While these trains would not have been used for this outage (the plan called for special trains running from Sutphin-Jamaica to 34 St-Penn Station, and continuing to points north), it was likely part of the inspiration behind including these two obscure readings. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
officiallyliam Posted February 10, 2018 Share #17779 Posted February 10, 2018 7 hours ago, Lance said: There are a bunch of these random codes embedded into the 46s' side signs, including "LONG ISLAND RR", "WALK THRU TRAIN" and "SKIP-STOP". There are also codes for every B-Division station that isn't a part of the Eastern Division. More likely, there were included in anticipation of an event where the subway would provide some sort of shuttle service between Metro-North/LIRR stations. The most notable of which was back in the early '90s where Amtrak was threatening a strike, which would've prevented the LIRR from running trains into Penn Station. While these trains would not have been used for this outage (the plan called for special trains running from Sutphin-Jamaica to 34 St-Penn Station, and continuing to points north), it was likely part of the inspiration behind including these two obscure readings. That's what the (P) reading on the R32 rollsigns is for, right? I heard somewhere that it was "P" for "Penn Station", the service you just described above. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin Posted February 10, 2018 Share #17780 Posted February 10, 2018 Is late night G/O's now at the start of 9:30PM? I remember back then it'll start at either 10:30 or 11PM 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel The Cool Posted February 10, 2018 Share #17781 Posted February 10, 2018 1 hour ago, Calvin said: Is late night G/O's now at the start of 9:30PM? I remember back then it'll start at either 10:30 or 11PM Old news. They've been starting late night G.Os at 9:30 PM and/or 10:00 PM since the Fall. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3F Posted February 10, 2018 Share #17782 Posted February 10, 2018 (edited) 20 minutes ago, Daniel The Cool said: Old news. They've been starting late night G.Os at 9:30 PM and/or 10:00 PM since the Fall. Damn. I was wondering why Prospect Park-bound trains were showing up at 9:45 PM. It becomes a weird paradox where there's five or six 's that haven't even reached Brighton yet, yet the northbound is ending at Prospect Park. Edited February 10, 2018 by P3F 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel The Cool Posted February 10, 2018 Share #17783 Posted February 10, 2018 1 minute ago, P3F said: Damn. I was wondering why Prospect Park-bound trains were showing up at 9:45 PM. It becomes a weird paradox where there's five or six 's that haven't even reached Brighton yet, yet the northbound is ending at Prospect Park. It honestly sucks they're starting Late Night G.Os/Weekend G.Os earlier now. I heard it screws up alot of the crews as well as causing congestion in general now that they're having Work Trains leaving the yard earlier. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jemorie Posted February 10, 2018 Share #17784 Posted February 10, 2018 (edited) Are there crew rooms at both Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall and Bowling Green respectively? Edited February 10, 2018 by Jemorie 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Around the Horn Posted February 10, 2018 Share #17785 Posted February 10, 2018 11 hours ago, officiallyliam said: That's what the (P) reading on the R32 rollsigns is for, right? I heard somewhere that it was "P" for "Penn Station", the service you just described above. That's correct. I believe it got close enough to happening that they had actually created an employee timetable for the service, then the strike was averted at the last minute 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
checkmatechamp13 Posted February 10, 2018 Share #17786 Posted February 10, 2018 9 hours ago, Daniel The Cool said: It honestly sucks they're starting Late Night G.Os/Weekend G.Os earlier now. I heard it screws up alot of the crews as well as causing congestion in general now that they're having Work Trains leaving the yard earlier. It's a tradeoff. By starting about 2 hours earlier, they're getting 2 more hours of productive work in. If it takes them around an hour to set up and an hour to clean up at the end, that means if the GO is scheduled from 12am-5am, they're only getting about 3 hours of productive work in. At least this way, they get around 5 hours of work. (They still have to pay the track workers for a full 8 hour day regardless). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonyboy515 Posted February 10, 2018 Share #17787 Posted February 10, 2018 There was an R68 on the just now on the Brighton line portion... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainfan22 Posted February 11, 2018 Share #17788 Posted February 11, 2018 Rode an 160 on the today and the FIND was all messed up, it had the wrong transfers at the wrong stops.. The Manhattan stations had wrong transfers as well, one I remember was the & being transfers at 34th Harold Square. Whats interesting was, the automated announcements were correct. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union Tpke Posted February 11, 2018 Share #17789 Posted February 11, 2018 The FINDs have been screwed up horribly on the E and F for weeks. I should post pictures. I will see when I have time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkstar8983 Posted February 11, 2018 Share #17790 Posted February 11, 2018 4 hours ago, Tonyboy515 said: There was an R68 on the just now on the Brighton line portion... Probably because all the R160s needed for the were on the main service from 96 St to Stillwell Av via West End. Essentially there were 2 services, so additional cars were needed 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I love NY Posted February 11, 2018 Share #17791 Posted February 11, 2018 A curiosity about the E line: why are needed 29 minutes from Jamaica Ctr to Queens Plaza, while are needed 38 minutes from Queens Plaza to Jamaica Ctr? And why are needed 30 minutes from Queens Plaza to Chambers Street/WTC, while are needed only 22 minutes from Chambers Street/WTC? The total time is about the same (59/60 minutes) on the whole route, but why there is this great difference in the round trip in the same sections? Does it depends on an uneven of ground? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I love NY Posted February 11, 2018 Share #17792 Posted February 11, 2018 A curiosity about the E line: why are needed 29 minutes from Jamaica Ctr to Queens Plaza, while are needed 38 minutes from Queens Plaza to Jamaica Ctr? And why are needed 30 minutes from Queens Plaza to Chambers Street/WTC, while are needed only 22 minutes from Chambers Street/WTC? The total time is about the same (59/60 minutes) on the whole route, but why there is this great difference in the round trip in the same sections? Does it depends on an uneven of ground? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RR503 Posted February 13, 2018 Share #17793 Posted February 13, 2018 On 2/12/2018 at 2:36 AM, I love NY said: A curiosity about the E line: why are needed 29 minutes from Jamaica Ctr to Queens Plaza, while are needed 38 minutes from Queens Plaza to Jamaica Ctr? And why are needed 30 minutes from Queens Plaza to Chambers Street/WTC, while are needed only 22 minutes from Chambers Street/WTC? The total time is about the same (59/60 minutes) on the whole route, but why there is this great difference in the round trip in the same sections? Does it depends on an uneven of ground? Sounds like they're accounting for congestion at the s two shit terminals, and putting some padding in so they get better OTP numbers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union Tpke Posted February 14, 2018 Share #17794 Posted February 14, 2018 The on the go kiosks at Jamaica Center are showing 4 5 and 6 train arrival times. It is pretty funny. I couldn't take a picture. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted February 14, 2018 Share #17795 Posted February 14, 2018 On 2/10/2018 at 1:46 AM, Daniel The Cool said: It honestly sucks they're starting Late Night G.Os/Weekend G.Os earlier now. I heard it screws up alot of the crews as well as causing congestion in general now that they're having Work Trains leaving the yard earlier. It can also cause overcrowding especially on Friday nights, where many people are still trying to get home at 10. Thanks to that, what should've been a one-hour, one-seat commute home from the city a month ago for me was twice as long with transfers I shouldn't have had to make. What I'm curious about is if starting construction earlier actually makes a difference in the ability to get work done... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence St Posted February 14, 2018 Share #17796 Posted February 14, 2018 25 minutes ago, Bosco said: It can also cause overcrowding especially on Friday nights, where many people are still trying to get home at 10. Thanks to that, what should've been a one-hour, one-seat commute home from the city a month ago for me was twice as long with transfers I shouldn't have had to make. What I'm curious about is if starting construction earlier actually makes a difference in the ability to get work done... Nope, during the whole fiasco of the split service in Manhattan, construction didn't actually start until between 10 and 11 PM. However, service still continued to end at 9:30 PM. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted February 14, 2018 Share #17797 Posted February 14, 2018 25 minutes ago, Lawrence St said: Nope, during the whole fiasco of the split service in Manhattan, construction didn't actually start until between 10 and 11 PM. However, service still continued to end at 9:30 PM. The justification for starting earlier is that it takes about an hour just to bring everything in and start construction. But from the looks of it and some of the photos (including one that was shared recently on here, where a bunch of MTA workers were standing around when that tile board fell at an train station), I wouldn't be surprised if a future audit says there was little or no difference in starting work earlier. It's not just the amount of time the MTA has to do work (which is limited), but how they use it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence St Posted February 14, 2018 Share #17798 Posted February 14, 2018 That's what I mean, at times there wasn't even a single construction warning light in place. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kosciusko Posted February 14, 2018 Share #17799 Posted February 14, 2018 1 hour ago, Bosco said: I wouldn't be surprised if a future audit says... Wishful thinking, I highly doubt emperor governor Cuomo would allow that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Around the Horn Posted February 14, 2018 Share #17800 Posted February 14, 2018 Does anyone know why a full 10 car R160 Siemens set was testing on Culver earlier signed as a to Broad St? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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