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Posted by IRT/O on Wed Mar 21 21:57:35 2018 Saw a 68A Q train today. |
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Posted by randyo on Wed Mar 21 23:24:07 2018, in response to R68A Q train, posted by IRT/O on Wed Mar 21 21:57:35 2018. I guess that was what the Yd/Disp in CIYd had available. |
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Posted by Lou from Brooklyn on Thu Mar 22 08:24:21 2018, in response to Re: R68A Q train, posted by randyo on Wed Mar 21 23:24:07 2018. It happens sometimes, I've gotten them as well.Bravos were running local northbound this morning on the Brighton, the Q snowbirds were slow coming back from the city. |
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Posted by K. Trout on Fri Mar 23 00:07:23 2018, in response to R68A Q train, posted by IRT/O on Wed Mar 21 21:57:35 2018. They happen from time to time. Seems to be about as likely as on the N or W.Now, one real oddity I recently saw was an R46 Q! A couple of weeks ago I saw some southbound at Atlantic, two days in a row at 8:30 in the morning. |
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Posted by FormerVanWyckBlvdUser on Fri Mar 23 01:56:27 2018, in response to Re: R68A Q train, posted by K. Trout on Fri Mar 23 00:07:23 2018. Does it really matter if it's an R46 or an R68? |
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Posted by randyo on Fri Mar 23 15:02:50 2018, in response to Re: R68A Q train, posted by FormerVanWyckBlvdUser on Fri Mar 23 01:56:27 2018. Not to passengers, but it may matter to the crews. While I assume that all new T/Os and C/Rs are qualified on all the equipment operating on their respective divisions, there was a time when that was not the case. In the 1990s, there was a “manned gap” train that was kept at the ready in C/Hall Yd to be used in either direction on any of the Bway services in the event of a train breakdown in either direction. One evening it happened that the gap train composed of R-46s was sent to Astoria in N service due to work program constraints, the crew that brought it in wasn’t able to take it back. According to a M/M I knew, the train lay in the pocket for about a half hour before a crew who was qualified was able to operate it. Pre Chrystie, I recall a M/M from IND Queens being sent to cover the board job at 168 on his RDO ( on call to cover last minute absences). The crew office called fro him to cover a job on the A out of 207 St but being from Queen which only had R-1/9s at the time, he wasn’t qualified on R-10s so he couldn’t work the job. |
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Posted by K. Trout on Fri Mar 23 23:40:39 2018, in response to Re: R68A Q train, posted by FormerVanWyckBlvdUser on Fri Mar 23 01:56:27 2018. I suppose not - my curiosity was more about wondering where it came from. |
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Posted by IRT/O on Sat Mar 24 08:55:28 2018, in response to Re: R68A Q train, posted by K. Trout on Fri Mar 23 00:07:23 2018. There is a regularly scheduled R46 In the early am. The one you saw is a lay up upon arrival at Stilwell. |
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Posted by Joe V on Sat Mar 24 09:29:41 2018, in response to Re: R68A Q train, posted by IRT/O on Sat Mar 24 08:55:28 2018. Could that R46 run northbound as an R, but get sent up to 96th, then back as a Q ? |
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Posted by Kevin from Midwood on Sat Mar 24 10:07:30 2018, in response to Re: R68A Q train, posted by Joe V on Sat Mar 24 09:29:41 2018. Yes. R30A already posted about it some weeks ago. |
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Posted by K. Trout on Sat Mar 24 11:34:31 2018, in response to Re: R68A Q train, posted by Joe V on Sat Mar 24 09:29:41 2018. Aha. That makes sense. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Mar 24 21:54:05 2018, in response to Re: R68A Q train, posted by randyo on Fri Mar 23 15:02:50 2018. Understandable if he'd never operated a SMEE train before. |
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