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sillo38 t1_jbqxmyd wrote

Reply to comment by Grass8989 in Latest subway cars roll into service, start their journey on the A line by kuberlog

It’s wrong (or they’re just lumping all the features together under the R211 umbrella), they only got the first full set of R211Ts a month or two ago. They haven’t done anywhere near the testing they need to do before they do revenue testing.

For comparison they had the first full, 10 car set of R211As since summer of 2021.

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FLHCv2 t1_jbr8xgy wrote

>before they do revenue testing

What does this mean?

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runningwithscalpels t1_jbrryeo wrote

Today was the first day of revenue testing on the R211s - they have to run trouble free in customer service for 30 days before transit fully accepts delivery on them - as of right now they still technically belong to the manufacturer. Any sort of glitch restarts the clock. The R179s which are the other "new" trains running on the A and C (and J) lines had lots of teething problems so you want the bugs worked out before you take delivery on a bunch of trains.

To put it in perspective, these R211 cars have been on property for 2 years doing various tests with nobody on the trains, training crews on the new equipment, etc before getting to this point.

The 211Ts which are the open gangway cars only came on property fairly recently - so they too have to do the empty testing first.

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nobigdealright t1_jbrus80 wrote

I would like to subscribe to your train facts

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archimon t1_jbsii72 wrote

/r/nycrail has plenty where that came from!

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F1yMo1o t1_jbraf8z wrote

I also thought it sounded silly. Especially as someone looking at financial statements all day.

Just looked it up, it’s step 4 in testing new trains.

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sillo38 t1_jbtajo8 wrote

Revenue testing in this sense essentially means passenger testing.

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