Talk:R143 (New York City Subway car)

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Need a reference for M usage
First, is the operation on the M only on weekends or is it also during the night, when the M is also a shuttle?

The closest thing I can find to a reference is two New York Times articles, "Riders Skeptical of Plan for Conductorless Trains" and "A Plan to Cut Conductor Jobs", which say that the M is conductorless on weekends. --NE2 10:05, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

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Requested move
R143 (New York City Subway car) → R143 – There is no reason to disambiguate the page, per WP:DAB. Tb hotch .™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions.  02:39, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment what about route 143 ? -- 65.92.181.190 (talk) 06:35, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * "Route 143" exists, and it is redirected to List of highways numbered 143, a hatnote is enough. Tb hotch .™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it!  See terms and conditions.  19:08, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * "R#" is a frequently used abbreviation for "route #" -- 65.92.181.190 (talk) 05:56, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

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R143s on the
I've seen some recent videos of R143 cars running on the J/Z train that suggest that some of the cars might have been reassigned to that line. Can anyone confirm this? DReifGalaxyM31 (talk) 05:10, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

No R143s on not officially assigned to the J/Z because it has a L train strip map. So it’s from the L. RedProofHill123 (talk) 02:20, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

True, however since May 9, 2015 three trains R143's have been regularly operated on the (J)/(Z) lines due to the loss of 112 R160's 8573-8652 & 9943-9974 to Pitkin Yard for the (C) line in 2014, in exchange for 128 R32's to ENY for the (J)/(Z) lines, since ridership on the (C) line began growing due to gentrification, and passengers were screaming BLOODY-HELL when the R32's assigned to the (C) began breaking down and falling apart in large numbers, and not to mention the air conditioning systems and heating systems was all taxed-up, and all worn-out from being operated on the (E) & (F) lines for over 20 years since 1989 shortly after GOH, because they found out it was more wiser to use the newly rebuilt R32's on the (E) & (F) since the dwell time on the Queens Blvd stations can be reduced with a 10 car train of sixty footers with 40 sets of doors, verses an 8 car train of seventy-five footers with 32 sets of doors which adds more dwell times for these two very busy lines. I hope this helps.

J/L strip maps
Where did you hear about the combination strip maps? Thanks.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 19:36, 23 February 2020 (UTC) --Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 21:35, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

> I've heard about them too, from internal MTA people. Mtattrain (talk) 21:02, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
 * There was a pic floating around of these strip maps, from a source we can't use here. At least one was displayed in 2 Broadway. epicgenius (talk) 18:50, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

They may eventually do this, since like the (2) and (5) cars seems to be used swapped frequently between these lines at Wakefield-241 Street & Flatbush Avenue Terminals on each others lines on an as-needed basis. The R143's may also get these new proposed strip maps with (J)/(Z), and (L) lines combined, and very similar to the R142's assigned to the (2) & (5) lines, since the R143's can be seen on the (J)/(Z) lines at any given moment, even popping-up during the midnights, and weekends as well.