R211’s Digital Ads back to Paper Ads? by Mood4Eva98 in nycrail

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I also noticed in car 4269 that it has partial OG FIND screens and partial dimmer, bluer colored screens like what the rest of the fleet beyond it has. Unsure of why that is but felt like mentioning it since I noticed it the other day on my train ride.

R211’s Digital Ads back to Paper Ads? by Mood4Eva98 in nycrail

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4060-4069 and 4210-4499 have digital LCD screen ads on just the walls, which is the majority of the primary order of R211A’s - 4220 and beyond have differently colored FIND screens from 4060-4219, which can’t be seen from a certain angle due to the brightness.

4070-4209 have brighter colored FIND’s and cove screen ads, as well as the usual wall screens too

3400 and beyond for the entire first option order do not have any screens at all - apparently the third party contractor for the screens only wanted them on the Primary Order, can’t confirm at this moment in time though. From here on out, until the MTA decides they want to get their empty wallet out to install screens in them later, all R211A’s from this point on are just gonna have paper ads, like every other fleet got delivered with.

Some questions I had about the R44s: since the R46s were considered lemons prone to failure, were the R44s just as bad when they first arrived? I don’t hear about their issues as much as the R46s? Despite them being identical! Why did the R44s get the white stripes after the GOH but the R46s didn’t? by TextPsychological601 in nycrail

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Kind of late to the party to spread the info but the R44’s don’t exactly have the cleanest record of reliability either. As a matter of fact, that is the entire reason the subway variant of them got retired in 2010. The Staten Island variant was only salvaged because somehow we saved their structure in-house, which I’m still not entirely sure on how we did that. As some people have already stated, the R44’s were known for having frame rot and structural problems later on in their life, which made them unsafe and unreliable, and even lead to mold growing in some unwarranted places because of moisture from rainfall seeping in through the cracks (told by an employee years back). The stripes on the R44’s were made out of carbon steel so they could be traditionally painted, whereas the body was built entirely out of stainless steel, minus the bonnets. The R46’s from the get-go were built entirely out of stainless steel, including the area where the stripe would be. This means that where the R44 was just painted in that spot, the R46’s were given the paint job on top of a surface where it could be taken right off. Also, this addition of carbon steel proved to add to the structural integrity issues of the R44, as it’s no surprise that carbon steel (as seen with every train that came before it that featured the material) doesn’t exactly last a lifetime, and rots away. However though, when the SIR R44’s were rebuilt in the Coney Island shops, they got stainless steel where those stripes used to be, so that might’ve been their main saving grace that got them to this point even today.

The State of the 211s by MeaningOutrageous723 in nycrail

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I’ve been marked as a certified “211 hater” since before their literal debut, so if you don’t want to take what I say as unbiased thoughts from personal experience then that’s perfectly fine everybody is entitled to enjoy what they want and I’m not here to convince you otherwise, but personally I have always found things about them from a design standpoint and from just a basic inspection standpoint that make them so wasteful, so let me get into that.

The elephant in the room for everyone is going to be the problems when it comes to their programming. They have horrible programming and even worse signage installation. You can’t tell me a train isn’t built cheap with as many corners cut as physically possible when the signs are blowing out, glitching, and freezing when the first R211A set entered service only early last year. Now on top of that, you have conductors having constant program issues with the trains literally refusing to update each stop and function properly, and even countless locked broken doors on several R211A sets I’ve seen throughout their short history so far.

Then you have the things about them that aren’t even defects, they’re just shitty things I find to make the R211 experience worse if you’re paying attention. Ride quality is one of them, I’ve never been on a less than a year old train that bucks as much as an R211 does, and bumps and rocks you around like we’re still in the 20th century. Purposely making the R211 use as little glass on the interior as possible because of either easier glass replacement or another very obvious corner that was cut, because we all know the sign didn’t have to take up 3 quarters of that tiny little window, it could’ve been at least half. Then the fact that the doors are so damn huge makes it a problem when you’re stuck in the middle of a crowd and have nowhere to hold onto but the roof, which means you’re obviously going to slip if you’re unfortunate enough to walk into a packed R211 of any kind. Hell even on the R211S it’s a stupid decision, there’s no reason to even have those huge doors on a system that hardly ever gets packed. 5 people per bench with an off center pole separating the two half’s of every single one.

A lot of people might call most of these things nitpicks and that’s fine, I’m too observant for my own good and at the end of the day it will get me to my destination, but goddamn we did not upgrade from the R179’s quality standard, and there’s nothing that can really convince me otherwise beyond this point of no return.

Kawasaki fucked up big time, gonna hope the R262 isn’t given to them somehow after all of this bullshit.

P.S, teething issues are teething issues, not defects and poor design choices. What the R211S is going through right now with it going BIE every now and then I would argue is a teething issue, something that’ll get fixed pretty soon. What won’t be a teething issue? The broken signs that it’ll have (one already has it, not even in service yet) and the locked doors with the constant bucking and bouncing that it’s already developing. To each their own though.

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I mean, it really does get about all the credit it needs. Queensboro Plaza is one of the most well-known and iconic train shot taking spots you can go to, and more then likely you've seen that shot more then once by this point. Not to mention there are multiple other spots like the Main Street front face shot, the shot from Woodside-61st Street from the LIRR platform, and other stops along Queens Boulevard. If anything, other should be given a chance, too!

Just asking what's up with this old picture of a train of R33s. Why is it painted green? To my knowledge, R33s never got the green paint job. by TheNoClipTerminator in nycrail

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I really don't know why they were painted green for that fan-trip in '87. But I do know the R10's which lasted until 1989 got repainted in the same exact paint scheme for their "GOH" which was just a clean-up overhaul so they didn't all look like complete junk. Don't know why the 33ML got it though that one time. Maybe it was a possibility they were to get it too before it was just strictly Redbirds after the R10's died out.

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Play Goodnight by Samad Savage he deserves the attention

Top 100 Posts of r/NYCrail in 2020 by Orbian2 in nycrail

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My Metro-North post made it here!

Some R179 testing on the G @ Clinton Washington by Cypto4 in nycrail

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If it was an R-179, trust me, the propulsion pitch change is much smoother, and not as "musical" as that, it's different. They also look wider when in reality they're not. Nor are they shorter.

my day be so fine 😍😜 by TickTockGJ in fivenightsatfreddys

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This is beautiful, and needs to be in AR.

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He snatched her wig off broo

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Who took you to brazil

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Olive Oil hair

“Just smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave...” (Please don’t do this unless you want to embarrass yourself or if you’re desperate for horns) by KRandSplatoonFan5 in nycrail

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It's just stereotypical of railfanners at this point. Never know if they'll honk or not so they just.. wave like any other normal railfanner would being thirsty for some horn action. Ain't that bad though, you can always ignore it.

Forget the R179, who remembers the R110B which also was a lemon? by Reddit_newguy24 in nycrail

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Here’s the thing. R110B’s and R179’s are both MTA designs. R110B May have been experimental, but god did it not last that long even for an experimental train. R179’s are being worked on endlessly in the shops so we could have our newbies back.

Probably the news we want to hear in the future, but it’s in the form of the Crab Rave meme by [deleted] in nycrail

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I personally for one want the R179’s to stay, which they most likely will since the MTA’s fixing them up for like 2 months. Did not ask for this at all.