subway speed!!!

I've often been on subways clocking in at over 50MPH...iin the old days you could look right into the cab and see teh speedometer.

You can get 60MPH while going through the 60 St tunnel on the N/Q/R trains between Lexington Av-59 St & Queens.

thats great, usually the old trains we're faster, although im not sure if they are faster than the NTT trains, people have told me at least 60 through the tube. Just caught the 6 today and my phone clocked it at 51 mph!!!! Which was very fast and the local hit 38

With favorable signals, Lexington Avenue expresses will give you a good ride between 59th, 86th and 125th Streets and Seventh Avenue express service will get you from Times Square to 72nd Street pretty darn fast.

 

It used to be a lot more fun with the SMEE cars with the railfan window plus Motormen sometimes ran with the cab door open so you could watch them work.

 

Bob

Yep definitely I just went to bombardiers website and found this http://www.bombardier.com/en/t...ID=0901260d8000f8c8# I think the speed is a little absurd for a subway car

Clocked one the other day @ 67mph

What line would that be?

 

Bob

Not sure  anyway, Today, on the 6 the express run from hunts point to parkchester, I had up to 53 mph, no joke, it was insane whoever said the NTT's or the R142's is difficult to get to 55 mph is wrong, the R142A hit 53 no problem, if it can hit up to 50+ mph going past just 4 stops, just imagine what it could do in the 60 street tube

The old days didn't have speedometers in the cab

#5 thru-express, coming down the hill toward Freeman Street:

 

And later in the same day, approaching Burke Avenue going back uptown:

Speeds courtesy of "GPS Test" for Android, Chartcross LTD.

 

The only higher speed I've witnessed is 58MPH, registering on the speedometer of a set of R32's heading through the tunnel to Queensboro Plaza from Manhattan. Basically, the only way a NYC subway gets over 45 is to be heading down a long steep hill with permissive timers.

 

There is an account of the '32s (or maybe '38's) reaching excessive speeds after their GOH (general overhaul) a couple of decades ago, since they received lighter air-conditioning equipment and higher horsepower motors, but their top speeds weren't checked prior to releasing them into service. Subsequently they began overshooting stations on the Rockaway line, and radar tests showed them reaching 70. The only evidence I've seen is an audio recording taken aboard one of them in this area, sounding like a Metro-North express on jointed rail.

 

---PCJ

Wow!!!! I had no clue how fast the R32's were, until i heard them at 70 mph and overshooting stations!! Wow, and usually i get around 45 mph on the express run between E180 and 3 avenue

The fastest ive been on the R142 or the express tracks between 180th and 3rd was 46 mph, i had 53 yesterday on the 6

"The old days didn't have speedometers in the cab"

 

Maybe not in your "old days", Ben. lol.  I guess my old days aren't that old.

 

 

40 mph, 50 mph, 60 mph........slow pokes!  My wife and I were in Stockholm, Sweden this past June and took the subway/surface train from Stockholm to the airport.  This train moves at 127mph....yes, 127 mph!  There is even a speedometer in each car to see the speed...and yes this was mph not KPH!  Smooth and quiet with plenty of room for luggage.

You talking about the Arlanda Express?

 

That's kind-of stretching the definition of "subway"--otherwise we would've included  Metro-North and LIRR multiple-unit trains in the discussion.

 

---PCJ

Clocked another one @ 57 mph.. That must of been the one Pelham6 was riding when he went to pick up the subway set from.. Who was that again? And forgot to get off

Mine was 53 mph  not 57. After 55 the power cuts out to the traction motors, and the train stops, the speed governor kicks in at around 57 so no way it could do that, now with the speed governor removed, yes, you could get 57 and some motorman tell me 70+ in speed tests before capping them, I know a lot of motorman personally, and One of them gave me a track vest as a gift and the book, I'll post pictures later though.

Pellham6 was going so fast he forgot to get off and pick up the subway set he wanted .. Slow down that train

When I lived in Chicago, the subway there runs on the elevated line, subway line, and surface line.  Part of the line I took ran in the median of Interstate 90, and we'd keep up with traffic.