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Another R-160 Milestone |
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Posted by Train Dude on Tue Feb 17 19:33:42 2009 900 now in service.340 at East New York 490 at Coney Island (their compliment of cars will be increased to 540) 70 at Jamaica |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Tue Feb 17 19:53:12 2009, in response to Another R-160 Milestone, posted by Train Dude on Tue Feb 17 19:33:42 2009. 490 at Coney Island (their compliment of cars will be increased to 540)Will the total size of Coney Island's fleet (all models) be increased relative to current numbers, when all is said and done? |
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Posted by Train Dude on Tue Feb 17 20:32:28 2009, in response to Re: Another R-160 Milestone, posted by trainsarefun on Tue Feb 17 19:53:12 2009. I tend to doubt it because once the older 60' cars are gone, those R-68s will be in demand. I know that I have my eye on at least 110 of them |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Tue Feb 17 20:55:02 2009, in response to Re: Another R-160 Milestone, posted by Train Dude on Tue Feb 17 20:32:28 2009. That should be fun - definite step up for the passengers from the older 60' stock. Minor downside on the way that some operators handle the R68A but no doubt with time and effort they can adjust well as most of the operators on the Q did when the cars were concentrated there. And now, for the first time since they were just about new, you can see out the windows again (yeah, there's the film in the way, but better than scratchitti).So good luck with that! |
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Posted by Train Dude on Tue Feb 17 20:57:26 2009, in response to Re: Another R-160 Milestone, posted by trainsarefun on Tue Feb 17 20:55:02 2009. I have my eye on 68s and not 68As. They can keep those :) |
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Posted by Bill From Maspeth on Tue Feb 17 21:04:19 2009, in response to Re: Another R-160 Milestone, posted by Train Dude on Tue Feb 17 20:32:28 2009. CI has 132 R68's (33x4), not including the 9 for the FS. You may as well "take" them all! |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Tue Feb 17 21:08:14 2009, in response to Re: Another R-160 Milestone, posted by Train Dude on Tue Feb 17 20:57:26 2009. R68s have worked out great for Concourse - D train riders are so very spoiled all these years! |
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Posted by Train Dude on Tue Feb 17 21:11:19 2009, in response to Re: Another R-160 Milestone, posted by Bill From Maspeth on Tue Feb 17 21:04:19 2009. I haven't been "given" any yet. I would need an additional 96 (75'cars) cars to make full service plus spares or roughly 120 cars. If I got all, then some R-44s might be retired. Coney Island would still hang onto the 9 singled for (FS) service. |
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Posted by joe c on Tue Feb 17 23:20:07 2009, in response to Re: Another R-160 Milestone, posted by Train Dude on Tue Feb 17 21:11:19 2009. Would it be true to say that some R44's are gonna be retired or willthey all stay till 2015?some say the R160 option 3 order will retire the R44's. til next time |
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Posted by mr_brian on Tue Feb 17 23:24:53 2009, in response to Re: Another R-160 Milestone, posted by trainsarefun on Tue Feb 17 21:08:14 2009. Too bad the Concourse 68s don't look as shiny as they once did... |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Tue Feb 17 23:33:03 2009, in response to Re: Another R-160 Milestone, posted by mr_brian on Tue Feb 17 23:24:53 2009. That's true - the things looked like gleaming twinkies above ground in Brooklyn! |
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Posted by SubBus aka ENY Local on Wed Feb 18 11:41:11 2009, in response to Another R-160 Milestone, posted by Train Dude on Tue Feb 17 19:33:42 2009. 9348-52 was sent to PItkin Yard this morning......... |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Wed Feb 18 11:51:17 2009, in response to Another R-160 Milestone, posted by Train Dude on Tue Feb 17 19:33:42 2009. Does this mean the remaining R42's at ENY are done? |
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Posted by brightonr68 on Wed Feb 18 11:52:52 2009, in response to Re: Another R-160 Milestone, posted by Train Dude on Tue Feb 17 20:32:28 2009. short term I thought the r-68 were going to have intercoms installed. That should reduce numbers a bit |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Feb 18 13:28:42 2009, in response to Re: Another R-160 Milestone, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Wed Feb 18 11:51:17 2009. Nope, not until those 64 (or so) cars in 4-car sets show up (R-160A option 3?) |
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Posted by 33rd Street on Wed Feb 18 13:32:07 2009, in response to Re: Another R-160 Milestone, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Wed Feb 18 11:51:17 2009. This has nothing to do with the R42's at ENY.Until the TA gets in more 4-car sets, those forty-twos are here to stay. The 38's are a different story. |
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Posted by Train Dude on Wed Feb 18 20:54:50 2009, in response to Re: Another R-160 Milestone, posted by joe c on Tue Feb 17 23:20:07 2009. Every day - another plan. |
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Posted by JayMan on Thu Feb 19 15:14:25 2009, in response to Another R-160 Milestone, posted by Train Dude on Tue Feb 17 19:33:42 2009. So what cars have been retired so far by the R-160s? So far I take it it's been R-40 slants and R-32s. |
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Posted by ClearAspect on Fri Feb 20 03:14:32 2009, in response to Re: Another R-160 Milestone, posted by Train Dude on Tue Feb 17 21:11:19 2009. If I think you're taking them where I think... Wonders how many ppl are gonna run on to an A train thinking it's a D lol reminds me when the fox got 32s ppl thought those were echos and at Roosevelt going south it made for the best shocked faces |
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Posted by Grand Concourse on Fri Feb 20 03:57:59 2009, in response to Re: Another R-160 Milestone, posted by Train Dude on Tue Feb 17 21:11:19 2009. I wonder though: couldn't they just give the FS like 4 A-A R46 sets? And just take all the R68 singles and make it one set leaving the 9th car as a spare/reserve? |
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