briman94 Posted October 10, 2015 Report Share Posted October 10, 2015 Chicago-l.org says white white is legitimate for Purple downtown, so there is some sort of coincidence.yeah, that's what all purple line express runs are (source: I ride it a lot) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tcmetro Posted October 10, 2015 Report Share Posted October 10, 2015 The new Blue Line schedule shows a Saturday reduction in frequency. From 5 to 6 minutes on the Milwaukee branch, and from 10 to 12 minutes on the Forest Park branch. http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/advance_schedules/2015-10/blue.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajuan Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 The issue seems more that the operator didn't know how regenerative braking works. There were posts in the early days of 5000s on the Red Line that trains were stopping short of the platform, but you would have thought they would have figured it out by now.Unless the operator in question was a transfer from either the Orange, Brown or Blue Lines which don't have 5000-series cars. Didn't a new pick for the rail lines just start last Sunday? My other thought (and my original thought) was going to be that this a new rail operator to the system as a whole. But I remembered that the new rail pick started last weekend and settled on the possibility of the operator being a transfer from one of the three lines that's still using older DC powered rail cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briman94 Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 Unless the operator in question was a transfer from either the Orange, Brown or Blue Lines which don't have 5000-series cars. Didn't a new pick for the rail lines just start last Sunday? My other thought (and my original thought) was going to be that this a new rail operator to the system as a whole. But I remembered that the new rail pick started last weekend and settled on the possibility of the operator being a transfer from one of the three lines that's still using older DC powered rail cars.If that's the case, maybe they got some 5000 drivers for Orange and they can transfer those cars back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajuan Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 Well service on the north LSD express routes was a mess this morning. There's some kind of construction work that's supposed to be occurring on the Drive starting near the North Ave ramps to about Chicago Ave reducing traffic lanes on the express Drive in that area to two per direction from what I understand. Actual lane reductions wasn't supposed to happen till Monday. Yet some genius decided to close off two of the SB lanes yesterday from what I overheard a lady also riding the 148 bus I was on this morning telling her coworker. At any rate, SB traffic on the Outer Drive was just crawling along at a snail's pace and buses on the 130s and 140s were running into big delays. It was bad enough that a few of the 147s returning north were short turning at Devon in the 10 and 11 am hours, and some SB 146 buses doing the usual midday Wilson short turns appeared to be hopping on the Drive at Wilson and shooting directly to downtown all in efforts to get back on track. The buses normally turn around somewhere near Wilson and come back on Marine for SB service. They even appeared to pull out some extra 40 foot buses to cover portions of 146 and 147 that came under the effects of the delays caused by so many SB buses getting stuck on LSD during the morning rush period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Cool shot of the Roosevelt Crossover. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briman94 Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Cool shot of the Roosevelt Crossover.One of the downright hardest parts of the system to build in Train Simulator! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 One of the downright hardest parts of the system to build in Train Simulator! No, you just close State Street for 2 years, get a big steam shovel... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chicagopcclcar Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Cool shot of the Roosevelt Crossover. From the north end of Roosevelt platform to the southern end including the portal leading up to the elevated, the subway tubes and structures were constructed by open cut method in 1939-1943. Railroad yards and warehouses were next to S. State St. along the site. 12th St. was on a viaduct crossing State. Since the open-cut dug out State St. streetcar tracks had to be removed to the side. All the junctions include in the two subways built were designed to be "flying junctions" except the temporary crossover in the Dearborn subway at La Salle until the West Side Connection is finished. In the State St. subway, the flying junction intended as an extension to a planned Archer subway sit for almost fifty years, unused. Then in the 1993, the junction was put in service, not to Archer Ave. but to the Dan Ryan median route. During those fifty years, the stub track was used only for emergencies although motormen were taught the signals that meant a lineup into the stub was activated. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTRSP1900-CTA3200 Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 This really threw my head for a spin...saw a 4-car of 2600s in the loop today with white-white class lights and figured it was just an out of service transfer. As it got closer, though, I noticed that all the cars had Purple "Loop" signs so I was really confused, because it's 9:00pm so there shouldn't be any purple lines especially not 2600s! When it stopped though, the driver announced that it was an Orange line train to Midway and it announced a 700 run number when it left, so I have no clue what the deal was.Turns out Orange and Purple are on the same roll, according to this video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briman94 Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Turns out Orange and Purple are on the same roll, according to this video.Express through loop? Hah, good luck doing that going the other direction. "This train will run express to <blah> *waits 10 minutes for signal clearance*" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTRSP1900-CTA3200 Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Express through loop? Hah, good luck doing that going the other direction. "This train will run express to <blah> *waits 10 minutes for signal clearance*"I don't even know how that would work. That would take some massive coordination between train operators of all the lines on the inner loop track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Express through loop? Hah, good luck doing that going the other direction. "This train will run express to <blah> *waits 10 minutes for signal clearance*"The caption is obviously wrong, as at the end of the video, the train stops at Adams and Wabash.The only thing the video demonstrates is that the Yellow Line has been moved onto the Red/Orange/Purple/Brown roll, and I believe a couple of Red destinations were deleted. This also doesn't reflect the Red Ashland/63 reading, but that was probably limited to cars actually running on the Red Line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briman94 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 (edited) Okay so I discovered something weird in the past couple weeks of riding on the Brown Line during rush hour. Usually every day in the morning the driver ends up getting an ATC penalty at some point for not applying the brakes fast enough, presumably because the speed drops so often (signal clearance, etc.). I've noticed some drivers doing something weird though that seems to reset the penalty so they don't have to stop all the way. They do something in the cab that makes the beeping stop and lets them take power, but it also causes the signs to move down one sign and then back up. On the LED signs they just appear to flash once. Is this some quirk with the electrical systems on the 3200s or something that drivers are abusing to reset the ATC? Edited October 21, 2015 by briman94 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajm522 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Has anyone else noticed the new Clever Device announcements. In addition they now run across the screen at the front of the bus? I've heard them mainly on 3,4, 8 and 146. The 146 has a new announcement about benifits of using CTA. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTRSP1900-CTA3200 Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Okay so I discovered something weird in the past couple weeks of riding on the Brown Line during rush hour. Usually every day in the morning the driver ends up getting an ATC penalty at some point for not applying the brakes fast enough, presumably because the speed drops so often (signal clearance, etc.). I've noticed some drivers doing something weird though that seems to reset the penalty so they don't have to stop all the way. They do something in the cab that makes the beeping stop and lets them take power, but it also causes the signs to move down one sign and then back up. On the LED signs they just appear to flash once. Is this some quirk with the electrical systems on the 3200s or something that drivers are abusing to reset the ATC? Not sure why those two systems would interact that way when they should be unrelated. I would think the only way to "abuse" the ATC system would be to inappropriately put the train into bypass mode. And the CTA apparently has a way to catch those who do that, according to a statement made on a Snowflake Special. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briman94 Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Not sure why those two systems would interact that way when they should be unrelated. I would think the only way to "abuse" the ATC system would be to inappropriately put the train into bypass mode. And the CTA apparently has a way to catch those who do that, according to a statement made on a Snowflake Special.I know, it seems really weird to me too. But it's happened at least a half dozen times in the last month. Driver goes overspeed, beeper sounds, driver doesn't brake soon enough, brakes apply automatically and beeper keeps sounding, driver does something that resets the beeper and allows them to take power without stopping first but the signs move down one and back up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sw4400 Posted October 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 This is why you don't do drugs, kids...."Stupid is as stupid does...." 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strictures Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 This is why you don't do drugs, kids...."Stupid is as stupid does...." She a nut, not a bike! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pace831 Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 This is why you don't do drugs, kids...."Stupid is as stupid does...."Sorry I'm late, there was this drug addict on the bus who thought she was a bike . . . 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 Sorry I'm late, there was this drug addict on the bus who thought she was a bike . . .The bike rides free,so why not she? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pace831 Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 The bike rides free,so why not she?From the CTA website: "Bikes ride free, with any paying customer".Did a bike board the bus and pay the fare? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 From the CTA website: "Bikes ride free, with any paying customer".Did a bike board the bus and pay the fare?Is someone going to mess with someone on #44? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajuan Posted October 27, 2015 Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 This is why you don't do drugs, kids...."Stupid is as stupid does...." Height of stupidity. Is someone going to mess with someone on #44?This level of stupidity is no longer route specific or endemic to any set part of town, sad to say for the city as a whole. The crazies pretty much have also become more likely on routes that pass through extended bar districts and other venues that serve a lot of alcohol. So that brings to mind 8, 22, 36, 70, 77, and 152 to see potential nutty begavior for example when it comes to Rush Street, Boystown, Wrigleyville, the extended stretch of bars on North Halsted starting near North Avenue on up to the ones in Boystown, and few popular bars dotting Clark Street in Andersonville, West Rogers Pk and the south part of Rogers Park that cater to both straight and gay crowds. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTRSP1900-CTA3200 Posted October 27, 2015 Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 Height of stupidity. This level of stupidity is no longer route specific or endemic to any set part of town, sad to say for the city as a whole. The crazies pretty much have also become more likely on routes that pass through extended bar districts and other venues that serve a lot of alcohol. So that brings to mind 8, 22, 36, 70, 77, and 152 to see potential nutty begavior for example when it comes to Rush Street, Boystown, Wrigleyville, the extended stretch of bars on North Halsted starting near North Avenue on up to the ones in Boystown, and few popular bars dotting Clark Street in Andersonville, West Rogers Pk and the south part of Rogers Park that cater to both straight and gay crowds. In other words, stupid knows no bounds. It's true! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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