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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Sat Aug 4 22:40:02 2012, in response to Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by gbs on Sat Aug 4 21:31:26 2012. Queensboro Master Tower. |
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Posted by gbs on Sat Aug 4 22:49:17 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Sat Aug 4 22:40:02 2012. So is that interlocking not fully automatic (like 47-50 St), and Queensboro can set the signal without the punch? Does the punch send the message to Queensboro who then sets the switch, or does the punch set the switch? |
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Posted by VictorM on Sun Aug 5 00:21:27 2012, in response to Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by gbs on Sat Aug 4 21:31:26 2012. Unless they changed the G.O. the Coney Island bound F runs via 53 St this weekend. Maybe there was some confusion between the tower and the train as to whether it was an E or an F, explaining the hold. |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Sun Aug 5 05:32:41 2012, in response to Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by gbs on Sat Aug 4 21:31:26 2012. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh fluck. There goes another of my favorite towers. :-( |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Sun Aug 5 05:40:33 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by gbs on Sat Aug 4 22:49:17 2012. Correct...sort of.Rockefeller Center Tower is fully automatic and unmanned. What you punch is what you get, and for trains merging, it's first come, first serve. Fifth Avenue Tower is no more. Fifth Avenue interlocking control is now with Queensboro Master Tower. It's monitored, but left in full automatic mode, and not touched. Under normal circumstances, train must punch to get a line-up. But on weekends, with no Sixth Avenue Line service, it's likely they simply fleet the line-up in so that no (E) trains punch wrong by accident. As for why the home ball was at danger with no train there, I believe that's a quirk in some new-tech interlockings. There are signals near interlockings on the (7) line where, with no trains present, it's red, but will clear off once a train passes a trigger point. The holding lights are controlled remotely by the dispatcher at Queensboro Master Tower. However, they should come on automatically when there's a train in the station, and the leaving signal is red. Oh wait, I forgot. Fifth Avenue Tower is closed, but it's possible the Tower Operator is working out of the new Fifth Avenue Relay Room for the time being. I'm not sure. I *really* to pay a visit over there. |
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Posted by monorail on Sun Aug 5 06:15:12 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by G1Ravage on Sun Aug 5 05:40:33 2012. As for why the home ball was at danger with no train there, I believe that's a quirk in some 'new-tech interlockings.' could be a track circuit... |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Sun Aug 5 07:47:13 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by G1Ravage on Sun Aug 5 05:32:41 2012. Watch your language! ☺Come on over to my place... MY tower still works! ROAR |
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Posted by FormerVanWyckBlvdUser on Sun Aug 5 11:32:13 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Sat Aug 4 22:40:02 2012. So where is Queensboro Master Tower? |
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Posted by renee gil on Sun Aug 5 12:24:15 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by FormerVanWyckBlvdUser on Sun Aug 5 11:32:13 2012. Queensboro Plaza (N/Q/7). The tower controls the crossover east of the station, the 11th Street Cut to Ditmars Blvd on the Astoria Line, the 63rd Street line from Lexington Ave to the interlocking south of 36th Street, the G line south of Court Square, and the Queens Blvd line from somewhere south of 23rd Street-Ely Ave to Roosevelt Ave. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Aug 5 13:02:03 2012, in response to Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by gbs on Sat Aug 4 21:31:26 2012. Isn't the F using 53rd St this weekend in one direction? |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Aug 5 13:06:50 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Aug 5 13:02:03 2012. They are, but Manhattan-bound. |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Sun Aug 5 14:49:23 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by renee gil on Sun Aug 5 12:24:15 2012. 111th Street Tower controls the IRT/BMT connection, as well as the signals on Track G2 within the station, and also shares Traffic control with Queensboro Master Tower for G2. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Aug 5 15:03:27 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by renee gil on Sun Aug 5 12:24:15 2012. That may be the most concentrated numbers of regularly used switches in one control tower. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Aug 5 15:04:32 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by G1Ravage on Sun Aug 5 14:49:23 2012. So 111th controls the merging with the express track west of 33rd/Rawson as well? Thought QBM did. |
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Posted by renee gil on Sun Aug 5 15:05:00 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by G1Ravage on Sun Aug 5 14:49:23 2012. Oh, ok. |
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Posted by Jsun21 on Sun Aug 5 16:33:54 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Aug 5 15:04:32 2012. This link has the run down on NYCTA towers.http://www.stationreporter.net/towers.htm |
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Posted by R36 #9346 on Sun Aug 5 18:55:28 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Aug 5 13:06:50 2012. The OP is talking about the Manhattan-bound platform. |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Sun Aug 5 19:28:54 2012, in response to Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by gbs on Sat Aug 4 21:31:26 2012. G-d. |
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Sun Aug 5 19:45:41 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Aug 5 15:03:27 2012. Many, or most, are on automatic.It's not like a tower operator has to line up every single train. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Aug 5 20:09:37 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by Jeff Rosen on Sun Aug 5 19:28:54 2012. False ... it's that other guy. :) |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Mon Aug 6 04:40:18 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Aug 5 15:03:27 2012. They do see and control the most territory of any tower in the system, but they don't monitor most of it, as the tower never quite came to fruition.Actually, Stillwell Tower B and Murphy Tower kinda come close, depending on how you want to measure it up. |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Mon Aug 6 04:43:18 2012, in response to Re: Who controls the holding lights at 5 Av (E,M)?, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Aug 5 15:04:32 2012. Queensboro Master Tower controls absolutely nothing on the Flushing Line. 111th Street Tower handles everything from Queensboro Plaza northward to Flushing - Main Street.Rawson interlocking is usually on automatic. What I punch is what I usually get, unless the punch box is acting up, and I have to punch again at the home signal by 33 Street.... |
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