"Conquesting" is giving a respectable label to vandalism and destruction of public property. This is criminal behavior and should not be minimized.

As a retired TA motorman, I applaud you for bringing these conquestors to light. Put them all on blast. These conquestors give all railfans a bad name.

Thank you for making more awareness of this, this is honestly part of why I prefer regional rail over subways nowadays. It's really sad what some people have made of themselves and how they would change rollsigns at the expense of others.

When committing crime resulting in no consequences, 1000+ cameras won't do much either...

I agree totally with two of your points. There should be cameras everywhere in the system with the ability to immediately dispatch LEO to the scene.

All of this needs to stop 🏾‍️. It’s not safe and People can get hurt in a unpleasant way. Thanks Mystic for Trying to bring awareness for this.

I wouldn’t call this “conquesting” as these goons would call it. Instead, I would call this next-level vandalism.

Thank you for raising awareness about this serious issue, and your send off ("you are not a railfan, you are a criminal") is exactly on point.

I understand why my elderly mother no longer takes the subway, and my father, who was a NYC transit electrician is rolling in his grave.

If you've heard the news as of recent, a group of conquesters at QBL were on top of an R train a kid lost his balance and his arm came off from hitting the train cars and fell into the tracks disrupting service on Queens Blvd, 0:45 This is something i never want to see happen in the system people who do this don't realize the gravity of the situation on getting parts to put trains back in service costing ALOT of Money.

Never thought I'd say this, " Back in the day", there was a time when there were more transit police then , I believe , Rochester, Albany, Poughkeepsie,, and Syracuse police put together. They road 2 to a train, every train. Then again, it wasn't such ," great fun ", to vandalize and graffiti the trains. It was just starting. How disrespectful it is. What is the fun of destroying things, I don't get it.

As a railroad buff, I am glad that you covered a report about people attacking transit workers. There has been emphasis stressed about people attacking other passengers, both revenue and non-revenue passengers. Transit workers are important people, too, and deserve respect and cooperation from the riding public, too. You are right when you mentioned that any person who is considered to be a railfan that destroys transit property on buses, trains, or stations, even meddles with car equipment, such as the train operator controls and conductor door controls and public address system, one is not a real railfan. Also, railfans and railroad buffs would not enter restricted areas that are closed to the riding public. Transit workers are The Best People Around who rolls the big wheels abound.

Nothing is gonna change no matter how many cameras are installed. The city’s leadership needs to change first

Just as I suspect... these people wanna be all big and stuff. But whenever they get called out for conquesting they would say that "people are crying over what the conquestors do". They wanna brag that they conquested and not get caught which boils my blood! I called out 1 infamous Conquestor whom you might be familiar with. Till this day he still roams around acting tough, when IRL he is a whimp. Anyways I'm glad that you talked about this situation because Conquesting is making US railfans look bad and which makes MTA employees sorta lose trust in us.

From one transit YouTuber to another. Much respect. Stay safe out there.

Same ones who removed power from my train and took my entire work bag on the Dyre line when i went to the back to investigate. Dispatcher should pay me what he owe since I was about to clear on board but picked up a job last minute.