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The 1 year anniversary of the RTS (Remember those!?) retirement is coming up.. it happened in early May. Crazy to think they have been gone for almost a year now.

Last night I had an dream that I rode an pre GOH R42 on the which is odd as I never been on an pre GOH R42. It was 4 cars long and accelerating faster than the post GOH R42 did, I said to myself in the dream, these cars still have field shunting! I got off at Broadway Junction and tried to take a video on my phone of the train but it left before I could open the video app. I stay having dreams about retired transit vehicles that they are still in service in current day, and when I wake up, I'm bummed that these transit vehicles are retired😟

Nothing wrong with busfanning in your neighborhood, I'm talking about taking pics & vids, not riding. MTA is straight up telling ppl if you're not an essential worker, STAY HOME! It would be funny if buffs are riding the system anyway as fanners are very critical of regular passengers not following rules lol.

The reason the TA buys NTT is old replace old SMEE's, the R179s easily did that with the R42 and already took a big chunk out of the remaining R32 fleet and could possibly replace all of them. No point in keeping a small fleet of 50 cars that are 50 years old running if they aren't needed. I also think the TA made a big mistake retiring the cars the R62A replaced, A/C always breaking down on those, the overhead fans on the R17/21/22 were much more reliable! Seriously, these cars have to retire eventually, the TA doesn't have infinite yard space and can't horde an whole bunch of old subway cars in case an NTT fails.

SI operators driving BX routes.... I'm assuming they are giving them route directions on a sheet or something along those lines?

In the middle of March before things got crazy they were barely using the R32s. If they do come back I hope they don't run everyday and run at random times so railfans have a hard time finding them

Yeah, I visit a hospital a couple of times a month and now those appointments gotta be done over the phone. I actually went to the Hospital in mid March and they was checking everybody's temperature before you entered the building, and the area I go to which is usually fairly crowded was empty that day. Also the seating area in the lobby was roped off.

I hear the subway is damn near a wasteland now with dirty cars and piss and poop being common in the cars, poop BETWEEN the cars and ppl openly urinating inside the train rather than between the cars or on a subway pillar. Ridership is down 90 percent. I would imagine the employee shortage gotta be effecting the department that maintains the tracks too? I wonder if this train derailment is because they have a shortage of ppl inspecting the tracks. And if you think I'm crazy for suggesting this, derailments were common in the 70s & 80s "deferred maintenance" era and once the system improved in the 90s derailments hardly ever happened.

I'll always associate R32s with the line, how fitting the final run was on the line. IF that was the final run, these R32s are like roaches and always find a way to survive somehow😠 At this point I won't believe they are retired until we see them being trucked off for scrap lol

Both SMEE's and NTT get taken OOS daily due to door problems. Scrolling thought NYCT twitter it seems like the #1 reason a train gets taken OOS is due to an door problem. I wouldn't sweat a random train getting taking OOS.

The Orion CNGs with soft seats operated on the local routes at SC in like 2009, 2010, use to ride them all the time at B100 & B103. UP & QV operated RTSs with express bus seats on locals after the MCI's demoted them to local service.

I remember when there was Redbirds at FBF, IIRC you was able to see them from public areas, not up close, but they were visible.

Haha, at first when you said Liberty Lines Express I thought you was talking about Bee Line which is also called Liberty Lines. Then I realized you are talking about Yonkers Depot. I'm wondering the same thing, Yonkers has like 80 or 90 buses, it MIGHT be doable if they run a Sunday schedule during the week on express bus routes at Yonkers, and NYCT contributes some buses. There's also the issue of Yonkers drivers being trained on local bus equipment. If local buses do run on express routes in the masses, the TA is baiting busfans like a mofo to break quarantine to go out and fan this lol.

Other than 76th street, the biggest mystery in the subway today is the location of the museum R40M pair.. From what I know, it's not at CI, not at 207th, not at Pikin nor on display at the museum. My guess would be it's stored on the TM leads between Hoyt and the museum. The WillyB pair is at CI, pretty much the location of all the R32-42 museum cars are known except for that R40M pair.

This post jumped the shark when you said the SIM1C and S79 should be combined, the hell with social distancing I guess?

I thought about suggesting the TA use the local buses on the express routes during this pandemic, to avoid contact with the driver. But two issues... 1)On a weekday schedule, there's probably not enough spare local buses to cover both local and express service, especially during rush hour. 2) Express bus riders complaining about hard seat buses running on express routes. Listen, were in a pandemic, everybody in NYC has to make sacrifices due to this virus. Riding hard seat buses while the city is in shambles is no big deal. Me personally, I would just be happy a bus shows up at all.

Well, at least in the case of the B37 there's both the train and B63 as alternatives. TA only wants essential workers riding the system so these B37 riders should able bodied enough to walk to the or B63.. I do wonder what's the exact reason for those two routes getting suspended. An B/O who works the route got the virus and effected multiple drivers & buses? Too many B/O's called out sick today?

That's pretty cool!

Supposedly a couple of full length R160 trains ran this week to give riders more space for social distancing.

I remember someone who worked on the R44s posting elseware that only the first 64 cars had body problems, the others were fine. I can't find the post but I DO remember reading about that. Nice! I hope they stay out of service.

The R44 MDBF jumped towards the end of their service life, easily outperforming the 60FT SMEE cars at the time. The 44s were good cars post GOH, they provided reliable service being the backbone of the longest line in the system for like 20 years. The R44s had issues early in their service life and for whatever reason railfans held a grudge against the cars cause of it, even though these issues were eventually sorted out. 44's being trash cars is a railfan myth.

Crazy.... Normally, this wouldn't be a problem but with a major virus going around that's contagious crippling the city, this is very bad...

I assume he meant round trip.

The easiest one to find is the one that runs on the Crosstown & Culver line during the PM Rush between 4 and 5 PM.

I remember those Phase 2's, the brakes on some of them was LOUD. Rough braking and broken A/C's is common on the Phase 1 as well, well in recent years at least. IMO the only thing the 32s have over the other B div car classes replaced by NTT are their bodies. The 38, 40S/M, 42s and 44s were far more pleasant to ride. I like R32s but they are very overated. IDK why y'all is giving the MTA slack for scrapping 32s while the 160s were coming in. The original purpose of the R160 order was to replace ALL R32-R42 cars. The 32s were of retirement age and many of them were trash mechanically at the time. I think they did the right thing retiring 32s until the 44 issues were discovered. The MTA cannot see into the future, things happen...