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What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Nilet on Fri Mar 20 16:12:30 2020 If the R32s are going to be retired by the end of March, I will not get a chance to ride them. :( Is there any possibility that they might outlast the pandemic? Will there at least be an official "Farewell To The R32s" fantrip once the day arrives that such a trip won't be a massive public health hazard?
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Wakefield-241st Street* on Fri Mar 20 16:18:24 2020, in response to What's The R32 Status?, posted by Nilet on Fri Mar 20 16:12:30 2020.* I would think that beating the Coronavirus epidemic is much more important than worrying about when the R32's final run will take place before or after the 100 percent "stay home" order is lifted.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Catfish 44* on Fri Mar 20 16:24:32 2020, in response to What's The R32 Status?, posted by Nilet on Fri Mar 20 16:12:30 2020.* I wouldn’t worry about it right now.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Nilet* on Fri Mar 20 17:12:23 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Wakefield-241st Street on Fri Mar 20 16:18:24 2020.* Since there's no conflict between the two, there's no need to prioritize them. It's not like I have to go out to ask about the R32s.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by BLE-NIMX* on Fri Mar 20 21:48:56 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Catfish 44 on Fri Mar 20 16:24:32 2020.* I agree. I believe even after the last train is taken out of service, they will hold one over for an official trip. They certainly earned a curtain call since their garbage can brothers got two last trips
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Catfish 44* on Fri Mar 20 21:59:55 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by BLE-NIMX on Fri Mar 20 21:48:56 2020.* Agreed
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Joe V* on Sat Mar 21 06:59:20 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by BLE-NIMX on Fri Mar 20 21:48:56 2020.* They did that for the R42. But they know there is far more emotion behind the R32 (older, Budd-built, etc, from when this country knew how to build durable products).
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Lord Vader* on Sat Mar 21 08:07:58 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by BLE-NIMX on Fri Mar 20 21:48:56 2020.* Well said sir. In regards to the R32 commuting to work, all this week all I had seen and rode was the R46 and R179 on the C and all R179 on rare occasions I’ve caught the A. All this week I haven’t seen or even heard any R32s. Vader
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by rkba* on Sat Mar 21 11:08:33 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Wakefield-241st Street on Fri Mar 20 16:18:24 2020.* don't blow his mind, he's gonna start REEEEEing.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by BLE-NIMX* on Sat Mar 21 11:21:39 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Lord Vader on Sat Mar 21 08:07:58 2020.* Since they are starting a pick for reduced service jobs, they may already be spare cars
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by r33/r36 mainline* on Sat Mar 21 11:23:24 2020, in response to What's The R32 Status?, posted by Nilet on Fri Mar 20 16:12:30 2020.* Its rumored they will retire any day now.. Some ppl said yesterday was the last day but one is running on the C today (Didn't see it in person, saw it online) some ppl are saying Sunday is the last day, etc.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Spider-Pig* on Sat Mar 21 11:50:59 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Wakefield-241st Street on Fri Mar 20 16:18:24 2020.* What a ridiculous post. He’s not saying that the Coronavirus response needs to be softened to accommodate the R32 retirement.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by AlM* on Sat Mar 21 12:21:08 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Mar 21 11:50:59 2020.* IAWTP. The virus is diminishing lots of options for entertainment, so let's entertain ourselves talking about trains, at least.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Lord Vader* on Sat Mar 21 12:34:54 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by BLE-NIMX on Sat Mar 21 11:21:39 2020.* True that my brother. Vader
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Nilet* on Sat Mar 21 12:54:46 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by rkba on Sat Mar 21 11:08:33 2020.* Dude, what is even your problem?
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Nilet* on Sat Mar 21 13:11:44 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Mar 21 11:50:59 2020.* The sad thing is that it's been nearly a month since he posted anything but when I show up it takes him all of six minutes to respond. The poor guy is obsessed with me. He probably sets alerts in case I show up.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Nilet* on Sat Mar 21 13:12:58 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by r33/r36 mainline on Sat Mar 21 11:23:24 2020.* :(
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Nilet* on Sat Mar 21 13:25:34 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by BLE-NIMX on Fri Mar 20 21:48:56 2020.* They did an official last trip for the R42s— midday on a weekday. Even if I can make an official last trip, I don't relish the prospect of fighting for a RFW, but I never managed to get any 4K RFW video of the Rockaways. Maybe I'll book another nostalgia train and show up with a sticky so that I can attach the camera to the RFW without needing to stand at it. Or maybe the MTA will let me stick the camera to the RFW of an R46 for a reasonable fee. If they're willing to let anyone with cash rent an entire train, then a minute or two in the cab of a stationary train shouldn't be out of the question.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Joe V* on Sat Mar 21 15:22:27 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Nilet on Sat Mar 21 13:25:34 2020.* The final R32 day should be several trips back and forth to reduce the surge. Maybe run one as the C, the other as a J.
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Posted by Nilet* on Sat Mar 21 16:01:32 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Joe V on Sat Mar 21 15:22:27 2020.* The final R32 day should be several trips back and forth to reduce the surge. It won't. They'll be packed from the start of the first trip to the end of the last. Or at least the first car will be. Maybe run one as the C, the other as a J. I was hoping for an A. Or better yet, an N.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Catfish 44* on Sat Mar 21 16:19:20 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Nilet on Sat Mar 21 16:01:32 2020.* That’s a much better idea
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP* on Sat Mar 21 16:27:21 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Nilet on Sat Mar 21 16:01:32 2020.* I'd run them on the Q or the N. They started their careers on the BMT Southern Division; in fact, I still think of the R-32s as BMT cars. My very first subway ride was on a shiny new R-32 N on July 21, 1965.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by randyo* on Sat Mar 21 16:38:06 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Mar 21 16:27:21 2020.* The MTA wouldn’t want to run them on any line where there might be even the remotest possibility they could be rerouted through the Montague St tunnel where they are banned. That rules out all Southern Division lines.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by randyo* on Sat Mar 21 16:41:22 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Nilet on Sat Mar 21 16:01:32 2020.* With the order to avoid close contact between people, the MTA will probably just quietly remove the last R-32 from service without any proper announcement just to avoid attracting a large crowd.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Bill from Maspeth* on Sat Mar 21 16:42:20 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Lord Vader on Sat Mar 21 08:07:58 2020.* Only about 3 or 4 R32's on the C over the last few days with about 6 R46's. None on the A.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Bill from Maspeth* on Sat Mar 21 16:49:46 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by randyo on Sat Mar 21 16:38:06 2020.* Exactly. But they don't want to hear it!
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Joe V* on Sat Mar 21 17:27:52 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by randyo on Sat Mar 21 16:38:06 2020.* They could run a 6 car set back and forth as a Sea Beach or West End shuttle.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by BILLBKLYN* on Sat Mar 21 18:33:58 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Mar 21 16:27:21 2020.* The R32s not in the BMT Southern Division, is like the WF R33/36s not on the IRT Flushing Line.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by r33/r36 mainline* on Sat Mar 21 18:50:25 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Joe V on Sat Mar 21 17:27:52 2020.* If the R42 final run was any indication, 6 cars won't be enough lol. If such a final run was to happen for the 32s it has to be an 10 car train.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Fisk Ave Jim* on Sat Mar 21 19:02:33 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Mar 21 18:33:58 2020.* IAWTP!
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Posted by BLE-NIMX* on Sat Mar 21 19:08:43 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Nilet on Sat Mar 21 13:25:34 2020.* It was always nice to catch a last trip, not an official one. Not every class of cars get the retirement watch either. I happened to get lucky and catch a trip with one of my former motormen going to work southbound and he was assigned a putin out of 207 with the last 2 R38s available for service. I don't think the R44s had a dedicated last trip either. There are those trips like those Mr. R10 would have down as last official trips like the R10 or the R30, not including fan trips, which are their actual last runs, and those trips TA had ceremonies for, like the last grafitti C train or the tradition which started with the IRT redbirds which appear staged, even though still a final.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Fisk Ave Jim* on Sat Mar 21 19:41:04 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by randyo on Sat Mar 21 16:41:22 2020.* I agree. If the MTA announces a last run or two for the R32s It will be a PR disaster inasmuch being a total nose thumbing of the social gathering restriction. Today, no large crowds, no last runs, not now anyway. The best IMO anyone can hope for is to keep a 10 car set in mothballs & have a ceremonial last run sometime in the future. But realistically, thats wishful thinking. The reef is waiting.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Joe V* on Sat Mar 21 19:47:09 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by r33/r36 mainline on Sat Mar 21 18:50:25 2020.* Run it back and forth all day.
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Posted by Joe V* on Sat Mar 21 19:47:50 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Mar 21 18:33:58 2020.* Or the R10's not on the A. They did not seem right on the D, E or F.
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Posted by Joe V* on Sat Mar 21 19:48:26 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Mar 21 19:41:04 2020.* They don't reef anymore.
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Posted by r33/r36 mainline* on Sat Mar 21 20:22:01 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Mar 21 19:41:04 2020.* I believe the R32s will just sit in storage a few months after they are retired, all of the remaining 50 R42s are still on the property even though they have been retired for a while now. If the pandemic is over by lets say June and the 32s are retired this month.. perhaps they can take 10 cars out of storage, give a little tune up so their road worthy and then run the final trip.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Catfish 44* on Sat Mar 21 20:24:11 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Joe V on Sat Mar 21 19:47:09 2020.* That’s not a final run
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim* on Sat Mar 21 20:28:35 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Joe V on Sat Mar 21 19:48:26 2020.* Figuratively speaking that is.
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Posted by Catfish 44* on Sat Mar 21 20:44:18 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Mar 21 20:28:35 2020.* I figured that’s what you meant.
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Posted by amtrak706* on Sat Mar 21 21:12:13 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Mar 21 18:33:58 2020.* The R32s have been in post GOH rebuild configuration on the A and C longer than they were ever on the BMT in as-delivered form. I would say they are most at home with silver doors, a shitty flip dot route indicator, and screeching brakes on the IND 8th Av line.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by rkba* on Sat Mar 21 21:52:26 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Nilet on Sat Mar 21 12:54:46 2020.* loaded question. try again, raymond.
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Posted by jailhousedoc* on Sat Mar 21 22:07:14 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by randyo on Sat Mar 21 16:38:06 2020.* Why are R-32 cars banned from the Montague tunnel ? I can understand R-46 cars, but any 60 ft long car should be able to work through.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Catfish 44* on Sat Mar 21 22:20:42 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by jailhousedoc on Sat Mar 21 22:07:14 2020.* Because of the straight sides.
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth* on Sat Mar 21 23:17:38 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by jailhousedoc on Sat Mar 21 22:07:14 2020.* They strike the tunnel lighting due to the shape of their roof. Same restriction for for all remaining cars from R1 to R42.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Nilet* on Sat Mar 21 23:24:28 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by rkba on Sat Mar 21 21:52:26 2020.* Dude, what continues to even be your problem?
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Posted by BILLBKLYN* on Sat Mar 21 23:32:00 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Joe V on Sat Mar 21 19:47:50 2020.* Yep.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by BILLBKLYN* on Sat Mar 21 23:34:09 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by amtrak706 on Sat Mar 21 21:12:13 2020.* But they were still on the BMT Southern Division up until 2012, 24 years after GOH as well.
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by BILLBKLYN* on Sat Mar 21 23:35:58 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by randyo on Sat Mar 21 16:41:22 2020.* I was gonna say the same thing! Does anyone here REALLY think that the "railfan element" would practice social distancing while that's a RF and "anti"RF window to be had?
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Re: What's The R32 Status?
Posted by Elkeeper* on Sat Mar 21 23:49:23 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Sat Mar 21 23:17:38 2020.* Funny, I remember them running on the, "TT WEST END LOCAL", from Chambers St to Bay Pkwy or Coney Island.
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP* on Sat Mar 21 23:52:17 2020, in response to Re: What's The R32 Status?, posted by Elkeeper on Sat Mar 21 23:49:23 2020.* We took a TT to visit my father's cousin in July of 1965. We'd gone into Manhattan that morning on another shiny new R-32 N and took the Circle Line, then headed back to Brooklyn that afternoon. My father's cousin lived just off the 71st St. stop on the West End.
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