OK so this flatcar looks a little different. Have to snicker at the grade crossing protection New York City style…
What is MTA’s business purpose for the flat car?
Maintenance Of Way. They have a number of odd cars designed for maintenance service.
Caldreamer
Here in Toronto, the TTC has several flat cars for hauling equipment, tools and so forth. You can see them sometimes in use on the subway late at night.
You see these used to pull bags of trash from the stations late at night.
I’d guess that rail line is so lightly used it doesn’t need much in the way of grade crossing protection. Easier and cheaper to let escort vehicles handle it when needed.
Is that locomotive battery powered?
Most of MTA’s M/W locomotives are conventional diesel-electric, no dual-powers or battery locomotives.
What is that thing that looks like a third-rail shoe, then? (e.g. at 4:21)
I thought the locomotive was either hybrid or electric as well given it’s short height it looks like it could run in the subway and when it was waiting at the grade crossing for the, ahem, grade crossing protection…it was very quiet, like it wasn’t running at all, then just before it started to move it made noise like a startup. I have doubts they could take a diesel into the subway…exhaust a little too close to the stack would result in oil residue on the subway roof that would drip down onto items with moisture.
From this photo, you can see the 3rd rail shoe on the truck under the cab.
A 5 person crew ? what a step back to the mid 1900s full crew laws ?
5 person and what 4 manned trucks?
Perhaps to activate signals, or detect if 3rd rail is live?
Keeping their qualifications up?
At $400,000.00/yr? Nice work if you can get it.
Suspect $400K in Manhattan and the greater NYC area will provide you the living standard of $130K in Kansas City - high cost of living in NYC environs.
I would also tend to think $400k is total compensation vs overt Salary.
You clowns are posting in the wrong thread and haven’t even noticed it. (Unless a potload of posts have “mysteriously” been deleted.)
This is the one about the flatcar delivery; I don’t think it has anything about the bridge inspector (other than compensation for the ‘five-man crews’, Suburban drivers, etc.). Has that ‘other’ thread been deleted without notice?