I'm 15 years in and counting and I still love it. Not too crazy about TA though. Btw I don't know about you but I always operate with my gloves on. I don't know how she wouldn't? And another thing I still have my metallic handle.
@@joshuajimenez6893 I was wondering too, but I don’t think so. What ever Train they assign you to drive you have to drive it for a long time. I live near the (2) train and I see the same Train Drivers most times that operate the train, They do this route because they know the route and memorize the speed and stations and train dispatchers.
DAMN!!!!!! I wanted this job so bad after retiring from the NYPD. I took the open competitive exam in 2009, passed and all, but I guess they didn't reach my list number bc I never heard back from them. O WELL LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
I seriously doubt it will happen. Experience shows that people strongly prefer a human operator in the operation cab, even if he/she does almost noting.
Correct me if I'm wrong because I'm not sure, but I think R38's have resistors that are not enclosed in the deranged box like on an R16/17 so I think they tolerate a bit more switching.
True and also untrue. The design idea behind the enclosed, force air cooled grids on the GE R16/R17s was actually in part to permit longer operation times in resistance points. Provided the MG works as intended, at low speeds, you would still be supplying sufficient cooling air to the resistors. Open grids are subjected to the whims of the air flowing over them, which can vary based on weather, and train speed. Since switching typically keeps trains at very low speeds, unless you're experiencing abnormally high winds, the grids are not being cooled as much as they would be if they were supplied with forced air. Hence, just like first point on our trolleys, you're not supposed to use switching on RT cars for more than 2-3 seconds at a time before shutting off and coasting for a few seconds.
While true in theory I've been advised and to some degree seen for myself that air circulation in the box was in reality inadequate to perform the task in a superior way to the thermosyphoning principle of the open grids. (Grids heat local air, it rushes upwards due to lower density, cool air rushes in from below, even with train at low speed.) I've been advised by Joey that 6688 can only be used in switching for even shorter periods of time than 5466 and 1689. Do you find the same to be true?
@@FanRailer hi. Can you help me? Where I can read about American old subway trains? 70-80s years. I did not find much of it. I mean operating, driving, motor control system, signaling system? And why people there saying that 25 mph is crazy driving?
When I was a kid, I couldn't figure out why Santa could bring me freight trains and Amtrak-style passenger trains, but couldn't bring me subway trains! And not just any subway trains, I wanted the ones that had all that cool graffiti all over them!
Love from China! It is nice to see how NY subway train operates while I always see the operation of Beijing subway line 10, 13, 2, and 6 :) Based on what I know, this is another kind of system to control the speed of subway besides VVVF. How is it called?
I have a question, I know there are switches for trains but do they go over them automatically or the operator has to do something for the train to completely switch tracks?
Many tracks are switched using s button in stations by the train operator. Some operators are too short to reach so they might use a stick out the window to push the button.
To clarify, punch boxes (the "buttons in stations") do not directly align switches. Most send a command request to the signal tower, and notifies the tower operator of the trains desired line-up. The tower operator then throws a lever to align the switch for the train.
Sometimes there is a punchbox on a platform or against a wall that the motorman uses to get a lineup. Then other times they will call a tower to get one, especially if they cannot get past a red light.
ok, can someone explain me how that thing works ?? if im guessing right, you pull the lever towards you if you want to accelerate, push it forwards for idle speed (??) and the right lever is the brake, pushing it forwards in order to stop (or pulling it towards you maybe ??)
Yes. On the cars with two control levers, the left side is the throttle. It has 4 points; idle, and 3 points of power (switch, series, & parallel). The right side is the brake; release is parallel to the cab window, full service is about 7 o clock. 6 o clock is emergency, and 4 o clock is handle off.
The cab on those Slant R40s were tiny. I could hardly fit in it with my bag. Btw I unlike her have to wear my gloves while operating. I don't know how she wouldn't.
Fan Railer I wouldn't mind. I have experience handling customers lol. Still better than Driving the train. You just never know when some crazy fool decides to push someone onto the tracks and you end up accidentally running over him/her. I would be traumatized for life.
Plus poor grammar and syntax. One might be forgiven for believing that citizens of the mightiest and supposedly most advanced country on earth could write a few rather simple sentences in proper English (and without the aid of some computer program like Grammarly).
Driving that cab is kind of easy i did try it out it is somewhat like driving the redbirds if you remember i always hated the dead motormans switch it was so annoying
I wonder how I'd find a subway where I could even do this without getting arrested... I guss where they have the door open up in the front is a good start. I remember being on an M4... used to walk all the way to the front, and yes I know thats MTA Metro North.. would have been New Haven Line (I'm from Waterbury, CT) and back then that M4 had a door you could see into if the driver left it open. Subway operators though on the other hand come from driving MTA buses from what I know anyway. I'm 28 and don't have any job but would like to become a passenger rail operator, anyway. Perhaps, though, start off as a city bus driver. I think for that all you need is the F (passenger) endorsement on your drivers license. Probably not a huge amount of trianing, not like the CDL class A anyway... wow im talking to myself. Nice video I enjoy it. I like how focused she is.
Officer Gregory Stevens for bus operating you need a class b cdl with passenger and airbrake endorsements the motorman is a promotional for us i will say only this working for the mta sucks but you cant beat it 20 down 9 to go
it's kind of cool but it's also sad how americans don't really give a fuck about their infra structures, like these trains/lines are so old, no one invests in these things...
You don't really know what you're talking about. Like other, even older trains, these r-38s and r-40s have been retired already. The MTA is far from perfect, but they constantly fix tracks and occasionally upgrade infrastructure.