trainfan22 Posted July 27, 2020 Share #7276 Posted July 27, 2020 ENY yard must be running out of space cause... one 32 is laid up between Crescent and cypress and two are layed up at 111th. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewFlyer 230 Posted July 27, 2020 Share #7277 Posted July 27, 2020 4 hours ago, trainfan22 said: ENY yard must be running out of space cause... one 32 is laid up between Crescent and cypress and two are layed up at 111th. Trains are always laid up at 111th street at night and or on the weekends. Seeing a train laid up between Crescent and Cypress is new to me. I’ve always see that part empty. I think they also have trains laid up within the tunnels between Bowery and Chambers street as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainfan22 Posted July 27, 2020 Share #7278 Posted July 27, 2020 8 minutes ago, NewFlyer 230 said: Trains are always laid up at 111th street at night and or on the weekends. Seeing a train laid up between Crescent and Cypress is new to me. I’ve always see that part empty. I think they also have trains laid up within the tunnels between Bowery and Chambers street as well. I know, but this is the first time I seen trains layed at 111th middle midday during the week. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R32 3838 Posted July 27, 2020 Share #7279 Posted July 27, 2020 4 hours ago, trainfan22 said: ENY yard must be running out of space cause... one 32 is laid up between Crescent and cypress and two are layed up at 111th. there's a Yard GO going on, that's why they laid them up there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainfan22 Posted July 27, 2020 Share #7280 Posted July 27, 2020 There was two R68A's on the back to back around 5PM. Hope 68/68A continue to have an presence on the .... From *personal observation* prior to today I haven't seen 68s on the ever since the came back, only 46s and 160s... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy283 Posted July 28, 2020 Share #7281 Posted July 28, 2020 14 hours ago, trainfan22 said: There was two R68A's on the back to back around 5PM. Hope 68/68A continue to have an presence on the .... From *personal observation* prior to today I haven't seen 68s on the ever since the came back, only 46s and 160s... There are about 5-6 sets of R68/As that rotate the Broadway line usually 1 is assigned to the while the rest run on the but that can change at any moment. Maybe there are more R46s and R160s on the currently. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkstar8983 Posted July 28, 2020 Share #7282 Posted July 28, 2020 8 hours ago, happy283 said: There are about 5-6 sets of R68/As that rotate the Broadway line usually 1 is assigned to the while the rest run on the but that can change at any moment. Maybe there are more R46s and R160s on the currently. The only R68/A that rotates on the runs in the PM rush which is a changeover from a train that ends at Brighton Beach and is extended out of service (rarely In service to Stillwell Av). The is essentially all R46s, while the is just a grab-bag. ~60% R46 ~40% R68/A + R160B Ditmars Blvd and Coney Island try to keep as many R68/A and R160Bs in service all day and opt to TRY and take the R46s out between rush hours (as the 86 St trains that drop out in the morning and the trains that go to the yard after arriving at Coney Island in the PM). - 8:33AM - 8:37AM - 9:08AM - 9:17AM - 8:26PM above are all departures from Ditmars Blvd. Before the swap; they used to TRY to do this with the R68/As and keep as many R160s in service as possible. An earlier post I believe asked as to why the doesn’t use the R68/As. It was I believe because of the rollsign issues on those cars not displaying 96 St-2 Av on all the cars, even though that operation would mean no Manual rollsign changes like they have to do at Ditmars (least the dispatcher sends out a mislabeled train with only the front letter correct and all the other signs erroneous.) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin Posted July 29, 2020 Share #7283 Posted July 29, 2020 (edited) 22 minutes ago, darkstar8983 said: The only R68/A that rotates on the runs in the PM rush which is a changeover from a train that ends at Brighton Beach and is extended out of service (rarely In service to Stillwell Av). The is essentially all R46s, while the is just a grab-bag. The R160s are pretty random on the Brighton line. There was just 2 Siemens trains on the line back to back, probably a leftover from Astoria use. Edited July 29, 2020 by Calvin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIP Posted July 29, 2020 Share #7284 Posted July 29, 2020 Me and a few others may bring it up to car equipment as to keeping R68/A’s on the primarily along with R46/R160’s because Ditmars is struggling with sign changing and intervals being kept on time. The R46 is better suited for the Astoria line than the Brighton line. The Real reason the R46’s didn’t/don’t end up on the is because Concourse yard doesn’t have the means to maintain that type of equipment. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin Posted July 29, 2020 Share #7285 Posted July 29, 2020 (edited) 13 minutes ago, VIP said: Me and a few others may bring it up to car equipment as to keeping R68/A’s on the primarily along with R46/R160’s because Ditmars is struggling with sign changing and intervals being kept on time. The R46 is better suited for the Astoria line than the Brighton line. The Real reason the R46’s didn’t/don’t end up on the is because Concourse yard doesn’t have the means to maintain that type of equipment. I sometimes wonder how the R68/As are still on Astoria line. There are select units that have that have the 96 St reading. It could easier for Astoria line to be R46/160B Siemens to avoid the problem. The past reason for the that's all R160 is b.c of constant terminal changes when the was out for 6 months (back to when the Q was to Astoria-Ditmars). Edited July 29, 2020 by Calvin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainfan22 Posted July 31, 2020 Share #7286 Posted July 31, 2020 It appears all of the R42s have been removed from ENY yard, only saw 32s and New Techs in the yard, end of an era... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R42sDaBest Posted August 1, 2020 Share #7287 Posted August 1, 2020 1 hour ago, trainfan22 said: It appears all of the R42s have been removed from ENY yard, only saw 32s and New Techs in the yard, end of an era... Meanwhile those 2 R42s are still sitting at Fresh Pond Yard 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainfan22 Posted August 1, 2020 Share #7288 Posted August 1, 2020 17 minutes ago, R42sDaBest said: Meanwhile those 2 R42s are still sitting at Fresh Pond Yard A single pair? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R42sDaBest Posted August 1, 2020 Share #7289 Posted August 1, 2020 9 minutes ago, trainfan22 said: A single pair? 2 pairs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R32 3838 Posted August 1, 2020 Share #7290 Posted August 1, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, R42sDaBest said: 2 pairs 4 hours ago, trainfan22 said: A single pair? 4 cars on each track, so 8 cars in total recent R42 move out of ENY went to pitkin yard Edited August 1, 2020 by R32 3838 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence St Posted August 1, 2020 Share #7291 Posted August 1, 2020 11 hours ago, R42sDaBest said: Meanwhile those 2 R42s are still sitting at Fresh Pond Yard Aren't those the ones that were damaged while doing the shuttle? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R32 3838 Posted August 1, 2020 Share #7292 Posted August 1, 2020 3 hours ago, Lawrence St said: Aren't those the ones that were damaged while doing the shuttle? no, all the R42's went back to ENY once the shuttle was done. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill from Maspeth Posted August 1, 2020 Share #7293 Posted August 1, 2020 3 hours ago, Lawrence St said: Aren't those the ones that were damaged while doing the shuttle? What happened? What kind of damage? I don't remember. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence St Posted August 1, 2020 Share #7294 Posted August 1, 2020 28 minutes ago, Bill from Maspeth said: What happened? What kind of damage? I don't remember. I remember someone here in this thread said one of the R42's got damaged while doing the shuttle. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin Posted August 2, 2020 Share #7295 Posted August 2, 2020 R160B Alstom set 9853-9857 w/ 9883-9887 seem to be the placeholder at Coney Island Yard in exchange of 8913-8917 w/ 9088-9092 (Siemens) to Jamaica Yard 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vioreen Posted August 3, 2020 Share #7296 Posted August 3, 2020 5 hours ago, Calvin said: R160B Alstom set 9853-9857 w/ 9883-9887 seem to be the placeholder at Coney Island Yard in exchange of 8913-8917 w/ 9088-9092 (Siemens) to Jamaica Yard Seems like some kind of business exchange between CI yard and Jamaica yard 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkstar8983 Posted August 3, 2020 Share #7297 Posted August 3, 2020 (edited) 45 minutes ago, vioreen said: Seems like some kind of business exchange between CI yard and Jamaica yard It might be the CBTC installation in the 9000 series siemens units, since the modified CBTC installation contract now states that ALL R160 cars are to be equipped, rather than the originally proposed 1486 cars. In that case, Jamaica will send over some Alstom or 88XX Siemens Units as placeholders while the Siemens units are being worked on. AGAIN, just speculation, and I have NO idea. Edited August 3, 2020 by darkstar8983 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vioreen Posted August 3, 2020 Share #7298 Posted August 3, 2020 8 hours ago, darkstar8983 said: It might be the CBTC installation in the 9000 series siemens units, since the modified CBTC installation contract now states that ALL R160 cars are to be equipped, rather than the originally proposed 1486 cars. In that case, Jamaica will send over some Alstom or 88XX Siemens Units as placeholders while the Siemens units are being worked on. AGAIN, just speculation, and I have NO idea. Those that are in CI yard as placeholders can operate on the line 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielhg121 Posted August 3, 2020 Share #7299 Posted August 3, 2020 11 hours ago, darkstar8983 said: It might be the CBTC installation in the 9000 series siemens units, since the modified CBTC installation contract now states that ALL R160 cars are to be equipped, rather than the originally proposed 1486 cars. In that case, Jamaica will send over some Alstom or 88XX Siemens Units as placeholders while the Siemens units are being worked on. AGAIN, just speculation, and I have NO idea. Nah, CBTC installation for all the R160's hasn't started yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkstar8983 Posted August 3, 2020 Share #7300 Posted August 3, 2020 25 minutes ago, danielhg121 said: Nah, CBTC installation for all the R160's hasn't started yet. Hmmm 🤔 I wonder why even bother with the switch then? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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