Right. Scratchitti etc. Look at how often deli doors get bashed.
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The Staten Island Railway’s R211 cars made their debut and the first set is now in service.
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I rode one of the new trains on the C line recently. They’re pretty much the same as the last model.
One or two of the sets have open gangways, which is new for the subway; the rest are functionally the same.
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There are two 5-car sets of the R211T—two complete 10-car trains. One set has a “hard-shell” gangway design with solid panels, and the other is a “soft-shell” version with a walkway similar to an articulated bus and slightly wider.
Also, open-gangway cars aren’t new to the subway. The first cars to have them were experimental BMT “Bluebirds” and “MS/Multi-Section” cars along with the D-type triplex units. A complete set of D-type triplexes are preserved and occasionally venture out on Transit Museum excursions.
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Happy belated birthday!
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A bunch of Second Avenue Subway work is ongoing - mainly preliminary stuff such as utility relocation.
https://new.mta.info/document/154331
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Interesting:
PROJECT SUBWAY
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This isn’t surprising and is what many expected.
The R68s and R46s are the oldest cars currently operating on the subway (outside of the SIR’s R44s which are being replaced by R211S series cars). The loss of forward-facing seats sucks but it’s necessary as some of those cars are literally falling apart and are also not CBTC compatible.
Good. I don’t like the configuration of those seats.
The MTA is going to order 8 more R211T open-gangway trainsets (80 cars) and will shift the two on the C to the G as well.
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The LIRR is going to consider replacing their garbage EMD DE/DM30AC’s with new dual-mode locomotives from Siemens. They will most likely be similar to the ones Metro North got but their third rail is bottom-running so they’ll have different collector shoes.
Click this in case the article page doesn’t load for you - It didn’t for me.
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Unlike Metro North, they won’t be able to serve Grand Central, as LIRR has stubbornly declined exploring ways to allow trains on the diesel divisions (Oyster Bay, Pt Jeff, Greenport and Montauk) to travel to and from both Midtown terminals.
I think it may have to do with tunnel clearances. Considering the East Side Access tunnels were dug in the 1970s, the clearances might be too small for their double-deck C3 coaches and diesel fleet. The coaches and locomotives are most likely too tall or too wide.
And no one can manufacture dual-mode locomotives and single-deck coaches that fit into the 63rd St tunnel?
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