At Times Sq-42 St, toward Harlem-148 St, between 8:36 pm and 8:37 pm. The schedule called for a train every 10 min.
Line
3 train
Station
Times Sq-42 St (station 127)
Direction
toward Harlem-148 St
Train before
train 03 1936 NLT/148, passed 8:36:39 pm
Train after
train 03 1946 NLT/148, passed 8:37:39 pm
Gap
1 min (60 s)
Scheduled gap
10 min
Collector
running the whole time
Scheduled against seen
Each tick is a train at Times Sq-42 St toward Harlem-148 St. The two trains either side of the bunch are labeled.
What the MTA feed said
The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed Times Sq-42 St when its next stop moves past it.
Snapshot
Train 03 1936 NLT/148 (before)
Train 03 1946 NLT/148 (after)
8:35:09 pm
next stop Times Sq-42 St
next stop 18 St
8:36:09 pm
next stop Times Sq-42 St
next stop Times Sq-42 St
8:37:09 pm
next stop 72 St
next stop Times Sq-42 St
8:38:09 pm
not in the feed
next stop 72 St
8:39:09 pm
not in the feed
next stop 72 St
Showing 5 of 5 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-3-bunch-74259.json.
Check it yourself
Scheduled times come from the MTA's supplemented GTFS schedule for Sat Oct 10. Positions come from the MTA feed, polled once a minute.
The raw records above are exactly what MTA's servers returned. How the numbers are worked out.