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Posted by SUBWAYSURF on Sun Jun 27 14:30:30 2010, in response to Re: Bus Tales From The Early Days Of MaBSTOA 1968, posted by Mr Mabstoa on Sun Jun 27 12:44:13 2010. Maternal grandfather: Conductor Third Ave El, my Mother has a great hand written log of an incident when his train got switched to the subway portal and lost power. Gotta find that, Mom never throws anything out.Paternal Grandfather: One of 3 architectural engineers that designed the Concourse IND. He wanted 4 tracks the other 2 said lets make it 3 to save money and make our selves look good. Majority ruled the rest is history. The money was there for the asking IND construction was a giant cash cow, one of the reasons it was so overbuilt. Almost immediately after the Concourse line opened the crowds made it apparent that it should have been 4 tracks. Every time my Grandfather saw those guys, until the day he died, he would walk up to them and say just one thing "I told you so", no handshake or other social niceties, turn and walk away. The original IND planners intended for the Concourse to be 4 tracks one look at 145th St lower level is proof of that. So I guess you could say: 2, brown nosing, ass kissers only concerned for themselves are the reason the Concourse IND has 3 tracks. My Birthday October 27th. Same date the IRT opened in 1904 (I'm younger though, by a year or so 8-)). When I was a new volunteer at the NYTM the Curator thought I was some deranged foamer when I told him my Birthday. He told me this a few years later. No wonder I'm a bus and subway fan. It's not as if I have any say about it. With me it's positively genetic. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. |
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