Snowblock Posted December 12, 2012 Share #1926 Posted December 12, 2012 9:01 I get off of at 125 Street 9:02 Board Bowling Green bound at 125 Street 9:19 I get off of said at Grand Central 9:20 Board Brooklyn Bridge bound at Grand Central 9:24 I get off at 23rd Street, commute over Tomorrow try staying on the same 6 from Pelham to 23 St and see how much time you save! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenEleven Posted December 12, 2012 Share #1927 Posted December 12, 2012 Why do they sound different nowadays? (after the first phase of acceleration) Different propulsion model so to speak. Like why the ISL sounds diff from a ISL G. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JubaionBx12+SBS Posted December 12, 2012 Share #1928 Posted December 12, 2012 Tomorrow try staying on the same 6 from Pelham to 23 St and see how much time you save! I wouldn't save any time. Under the worst circumstances i'll end up on the same I got off of which for me isn't that bad. I don't want to sit through the making stop after stop. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHV9218 Posted December 12, 2012 Share #1929 Posted December 12, 2012 Tomorrow try staying on the same 6 from Pelham to 23 St and see how much time you save! Exactly what I was gonna say. I commute on the 6 every morning from a local stop to a local stop, people always try to tell me I should transfer to the express and then transfer back...I let them go ahead, and then I wait for them once I get to my destination. Only time the express saves any time is on a few certain lines going from an express station to an express station...transfers are almost never worth it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollOver Posted December 12, 2012 Share #1930 Posted December 12, 2012 (edited) Today, I was railfanning on the the entire way heading northbound and a woman at Canal Street wanted 155th Street. I told her to take the I was on because it goes straight there. She shakes her head no and says "but the map shows the running express and making eight stops so I'll transfer at 145th Street instead" and walked out of the train. While I was heading towards 168th, there was no that past me. Laugh out loud. Edited December 12, 2012 by RollOverMyHead 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttcsubwayfan Posted December 12, 2012 Share #1931 Posted December 12, 2012 What routes were the R62/As assigned to prior to the arrival of the NTTs? I know that the R62s were on the and the R62As on the , but are there any others? I remember seeing a pic of a 62A on the at Flatbush, taken around 2004. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollOver Posted December 13, 2012 Share #1932 Posted December 13, 2012 (edited) R62As were also on the line with some Redbirds remaining there as well. R62As also did made appearances on the regardless of it being R62s and very fewer Redbird trains there as well. EDIT: The has always been R62As after the Redbirds were taken off there. Edited December 13, 2012 by RollOverMyHead 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peacemak3r Posted December 13, 2012 Share #1933 Posted December 13, 2012 Today, I was railfanning on the the entire way heading northbound and a woman at Canal Street wanted 155th Street. I told her to take the I was on because it goes straight there. She shakes her head no and says "but the map shows the running express and making eight stops so I'll transfer at 145th Street instead" and walked out of the train. While I was heading towards 168th, there was no that past me. Laugh out loud. A T/O once said if you go past 59-Colombus, the would usually be the likable choice of transfer but if you are below those stops the and wouldn't make a difference. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lance Posted December 13, 2012 Share #1934 Posted December 13, 2012 What routes were the R62/As assigned to prior to the arrival of the NTTs? I know that the R62s were on the and the R62As on the , but are there any others? I remember seeing a pic of a 62A on the at Flatbush, taken around 2004. The 1 & 3 were exclusively 62(A)s, the redbirds were primarily on the 2, 5 & 7 and the 4 & 6 used a mixed fleet of both redbirds and 62s. In a bit of an oddity, the 5 shuttle would use 62s occasionally, coming out of either Jerome or Westchester (I forget which). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttcsubwayfan Posted December 13, 2012 Share #1935 Posted December 13, 2012 R62As were also on the line with some Redbirds remaining there as well. R62As also did made appearances on the regardless of it being R62s and very fewer Redbird trains there as well. EDIT: The has always been R62As after the Redbirds were taken off there. The 1 & 3 were exclusively 62(A)s, the redbirds were primarily on the 2, 5 & 7 and the 4 & 6 used a mixed fleet of both redbirds and 62s. In a bit of an oddity, the 5 shuttle would use 62s occasionally, coming out of either Jerome or Westchester (I forget which). Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GojiMet86 Posted December 13, 2012 Share #1936 Posted December 13, 2012 The R62 from the makes an occasional appearance on the every once in a while. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PATCOman Posted December 13, 2012 Share #1937 Posted December 13, 2012 Today, I was railfanning on the the entire way heading northbound and a woman at Canal Street wanted 155th Street. I told her to take the I was on because it goes straight there. She shakes her head no and says "but the map shows the running express and making eight stops so I'll transfer at 145th Street instead" and walked out of the train. While I was heading towards 168th, there was no that past me. Laugh out loud. That is nothing new; people never listen. One time I was on the C and and A (a 168 dropout) left Euclid before my C did. Another A passes us at Broadway Junction and another at before Hoyt. When I get to 34 Street, there was congestion on the express track so I passed the 3 As between 34 and 42. I get to 59 Street, there is a D which just left. The D and I keep pace up to 145 and when I get to 168, that 168 A dropout arrives at the same time! Besides it is better to transfer at 125 than 145. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Concourse Posted December 13, 2012 Share #1938 Posted December 13, 2012 (edited) The 1 & 3 were exclusively 62(A)s, the redbirds were primarily on the 2, 5 & 7 and the 4 & 6 used a mixed fleet of both redbirds and 62s. In a bit of an oddity, the 5 shuttle would use 62s occasionally, coming out of either Jerome or Westchester (I forget which). I dunno about the Dyre shuttle, but I did remember the borrowing a train of R62As from the red stripe and the yellow stripe. It was just so odd/out of the ordinary to me 10 years ago. R62As were also on the line with some Redbirds remaining there as well. R62As also did made appearances on the regardless of it being R62s and very fewer Redbird trains there as well. EDIT: The has always been R62As after the Redbirds were taken off there. I don't think R62As ran on the till well after all the R62s were transfered to the . If there were any R62As, it must've been a loaner. R62As that did run on the came from the when the R142s were going thru repairs or something in 2006. Edited December 13, 2012 by Grand Concourse 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttcsubwayfan Posted December 13, 2012 Share #1939 Posted December 13, 2012 A few more questions, this time related to the maintenance aspect of the subway: 1. Which cars, if any, have stainless steel frames? 2. How does the MTA deal with preventing corrosion on cars which run in places like the Rockaways? I've been doing some research for a project of mine and corrosion came into the picture. Thanks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fresh Pond Posted December 13, 2012 Share #1940 Posted December 13, 2012 A few more questions, this time related to the maintenance aspect of the subway: 1. Which cars, if any, have stainless steel frames? 2. How does the MTA deal with preventing corrosion on cars which run in places like the Rockaways? I've been doing some research for a project of mine and corrosion came into the picture. Thanks! Im not sure about the first one but they deal with the corrosion problem with stainless steel bodies. Stainless steel doesn't rust. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttcsubwayfan Posted December 13, 2012 Share #1941 Posted December 13, 2012 Stainless steel doesn't rust. I know that it doesn't, but that was mostly referring to the non-stainless cars, those made of regular and carbon steel. Plus, unless the frames were made of stainless steel than that would be something to have to look out for as well - Toronto had over 300 Orion Vs without stainless steel frames at one point, and that didn't turn out well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quill Depot Posted December 13, 2012 Share #1942 Posted December 13, 2012 I wanna get some footage do create a music video. I'd like to use Strange Magic-ELO. Any thoughts? Anyone like for me to use the song. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PATCOman Posted December 13, 2012 Share #1943 Posted December 13, 2012 I remember an R62A from the 1 and 7 on the 4 in 2007. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keon Milton Posted December 14, 2012 Share #1944 Posted December 14, 2012 I must say the IND Eighth Avenue Line is pretty diverse when it comes to the subway car types currently used on the line. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoTimer Posted December 14, 2012 Share #1945 Posted December 14, 2012 There's some West End express action going down this weekend. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fresh Pond Posted December 14, 2012 Share #1946 Posted December 14, 2012 My day today on the train... As im walking over the bridge to get to Livonia Av, I see the leaving and I thought nothing of it. Catch the next one and get off at the junction to catch the or into the city (didn't matter which one, I was only going to Chambers). The comes first (R32 of course) and I get on in the front to look out the window. I get past Utica and I see an going the other way but there's no one in it (signed as one and all). I get right outside Nostrand and I see the R42 going the other way. Then I get to Franklin and I see an going the other way on the local track. Once I get to Clinton-Washington, the finally catches up to us. We pretty much stayed behind it the whole time, the signals was just clearing by the time we get to them. I pick up my girl from BMCC and once we get to Utica, I see the same R42 going the opposite way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PATCOman Posted December 15, 2012 Share #1947 Posted December 15, 2012 (edited) catch the or into the city (didn't matter which one, I was only going to Chambers). The comes first (R32 of course) and I get on in the front to look out the window. Too bad not everyone thinks like you and they "need" the A to get to Chambers. One time I was on the C and at Jay Street someone "needed" the A to get to 34 Street. He got on my C, but he transferred to an arriving A at West 4th! Edited December 15, 2012 by PATCOman 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Concourse Posted December 15, 2012 Share #1948 Posted December 15, 2012 Lol, yeah, like getting in front of your train was going to make all the difference. Oh well, less door holdings on your end I guess 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollOver Posted December 15, 2012 Share #1949 Posted December 15, 2012 Too bad not everyone thinks like you and they "need" the A to get to Chambers. One time I was on the C and at Jay Street someone "needed" the A to get to 34 Street. He got on my C, but he transferred to an arriving A at West 4th! The riding public these days... They gave up their seat to which I'm sure was a less crowded train just so they can bypass one stop and spend just as much, if not, MORE time climbling their way through the crossunder and to the exit? Just like how groups of people run from the to the at Grand Central-42 Street and climb their way to the exit at 59th Street... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alejr88 Posted December 15, 2012 Share #1950 Posted December 15, 2012 Why isn't the stopping at Pelham Pkwy if the station has 2 island platforms? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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