by keyboardkat
In the past couple of days I've ridden a number of R-160 trains in which the computerized station announcements, annunciator boards and computerized moving maps were "inoperative" (to quote Nixon's press secretary Ron Zeigler - only those of us of a certain age will understand this).
The annunciator boards simply read "New York City Transit," The moving station maps were dark, and the conductor made the station announcements in the old fashioned way. The warning chime before the doors closed didn't work either.
Apparently the bugs haven't been worked out. But you don't expect to see such early failures in expensive, glitzy new equipment like this.
The annunciator boards simply read "New York City Transit," The moving station maps were dark, and the conductor made the station announcements in the old fashioned way. The warning chime before the doors closed didn't work either.
Apparently the bugs haven't been worked out. But you don't expect to see such early failures in expensive, glitzy new equipment like this.
Fairbanks-Morse forever!