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Retired, 6 in work service, 4 pending work service R110B: Prototype new technology passenger cars 3001–3009 Bombardier Transportation 1992 Retired, 3001/3004–3006/3008 used for training R111 Funding/purchasing 2 cranes R112: Dynamometer for track testing: Never purchased: R113 Crane cars (3 tons) C260–C271 Thrall Car Manufacturing Company ...
Following the success of the Culver Line CBTC test track, the MTA awarded a $205.8 million contract for the installment of phase one to Siemens on August 24, 2015, and Thales on August 31, 2015. [89]: 14 These two suppliers were the only MTA-qualified suppliers that could install CBTC on New York City Transit tracks.
A track geometry car (also known as a track recording car) is an automated track inspection vehicle on a rail transport system used to test several parameters of the track geometry without obstructing normal railroad operations. Some of the parameters generally measured include position, curvature, alignment of the track, smoothness, and the ...
The four-car R179 sets were placed into revenue service on the J on November 19, 2017, for a 30-day in-service acceptance test, after slightly over a year of successful non-revenue service tests. [52] During the first two weeks of the testing period, the MTA identified three major issues in the train, which have since been fixed.
Members of Transport Workers Union Locals 2001 and 2055, which represent around 600 car inspectors, cleaners and carpenters on the Metro-North Railroad, have been ...
The R110A (contract order R130) was a New York City Subway car model built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries in 1992 as a prototype New Technology Train to test various technologies. There were ten cars arranged as five-car sets. They were designed to test features that would be implemented on future mass-production New Tech Train orders.
The MTA worker operating last weekend’s train may have been able “to save that woman if they had acted.” The woman killed in last week’s subway car fire has only been described as homeless.
The MTA hired Andy Byford as the president of the New York City Transit Authority in November 2017. [77] [78] Previously CEO at the Toronto Transit Commission, Byford assumed his new position in January 2018. MTA leadership expected that Byford would be able to devise solutions to fix the NYCTA's reliability issues, particularly those of the ...