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Community => Transit => Topic started by: Smooth23 on May 24, 2011, 12:12:01 am
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Ok so I have been taking the R46s on the R to work and I been noticing it has a whirling motor lately and I find it quite strange because it doesn't have a Westinghouse motor. It has a Pullman motor. Its so strange it was # 5741
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Nothing special some R-46's howl just like some 68A's.That can be b\c:
1.Different motor
2.Bad bearings meaning the axel or axial and the truck meet(friction) to create that sound.
IND QBL: Ride on R46 (R) #5741 with HOWLING MOTOR from 36 St-Roosevelt AV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxTeruHihc4#) (Not my vid)
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That's the same exact train I took lol and it's kinda strange though cuss you would mostly hear the howling motors on the R68s/As & R44s but not at all from the R46
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the motor is dying lol
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the motor is dying lol
Yea that too when the 142/A motors are dying they kind of sound like R1's.
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i have been hearing akward sounds to, cause i was on the Q this morning and when i got of at the 59th Street Lexington station an R train was docked and it was giving off some weird noise
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I have to agree, that's pretty awkward. The owner of the video sums it up - he/she said that most R46s don't have this.
the motor is dying lol
By the way, I was wondering - what are the mechanics' options when a motor is dying?
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Usually when a motor of a train dies It howls I believe.
I took the same (R) train a few months back and it had the same issue maybe Jamaica yard is lacking maintance or crews or something.
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Usually when a motor of a train dies It howls I believe.
I took the same (R) train a few months back and it had the same issue maybe Jamaica yard is lacking maintance or crews or something.
Well Jamaica is a shit yard at maintenance which is why the 160's look bad over there.I doubt they'll have a train running for months with a dead motor so I doubt its a dead motor.
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I believe I was on 5741 The day I was riding it Was April 15th btw
so who knows
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love that sound!!
its like R68s on the QBL
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R46s have GE motors.
Also the howling sound comes from the friction created by an old or under-lubricated wheel bearing, not from the motor. Notice that even when the train is coasting, the howling sound is present.