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Re: Future Car assignment for C train |
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Posted by Widecab5 on Wed Dec 2 19:23:50 2009, in response to Re: Future Car assignment for C train, posted by Train Dude on Mon Nov 30 22:35:57 2009. Starting next week (approx. December 11) each newly-accepted R-160 at Jamaica will free up one train of R-46's for redeployment.The two remaining trains of Phase I R-32's at Jamaica are now extraneous to service needs (a safety cushion) and could be withdrawn anytime. There is currently a balancing act in progress where B/O pair(s) get cycled out of the active train sets each week, held as reserve and reactivated if and when another pair goes down. How much longer this will continue is uncertain. FWIW, I'd have to express doubts about the R-32's going back through Jamaica to die off. As the rest of the R-160's come in at Jamaica (as of December 1, there are still 240 cars, 24 10-car trains, left to be accepted, all to Jamaica) there will be plenty of R-46's to go around. If 172 R-46's are needed for the C that's 21 of those 24, so there will still be other R-46's left over for the F (maybe), R and V lines. Jamaica probably wouldn't really need 60-foot SMEE's to fill its schedules [unless 1) there is a desire to change over the C line in a hurry, or 2) an unexpected delay in deliveries]. In point of fact, there are just a handful of R-46's now remaining on the F during off-peak times, no more than a half-dozen. If Alstom and KRC maintain their present pace, this all should unfold by the middle of June or thereabouts. It promises to be an interesting winter and spring. As for the R-160 Option III, Alstom and Kawasaki are both claiming ignorance thus far on the subject. Assuming Kawasaki remains a production partner and supplier to Alstom, the primary contractor (at Alstom's adjusted 2002 prices), there is a minimum lag of 18 to 24 months from Notice To Proceed before the first deliveries could be expected. That's how the R-142S (7731-7810) IRT addition went in 2002-2004 as well. It all depends on how soon MTA signs on the dotted line, if there even is one. This extrapalates a retirement timeline for the R-44's into the second half of 2012 at the earliest. Regards, George Chiasson Jr. (Widecab5@aol.com) |
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