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Posted by Express Rider on Tue Jan 6 12:50:03 2015, in response to Re: What is this supposed to be?, posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Tue Jan 6 05:41:17 2015. Hello Joe,Thanks so much for sharing these videos and providing the link to the index! I'll be looking at these and the other videos when I can. Though I did ride and photograph the Q's, unfortunately did not get to ride the BU gate cars. I was not, unfortunately, a "city" city kid. Though I lived in Queens ('52-'57), and the R9's were the cars of my childhood (we used to transfer at Queens Plaza, but for the life of me I have no memories of the abandoned north platforms), my parents were from upstate NY. They moved to NY in the late '40s when my father started Dental School. They lived on the upper west side and then downtown, so my Dad remembers taking the Bluebirds (!) at least once, on the Canarsie line, when he was going west to the IND. Dad took the H&M during the 30s into NYC with friends, and he was more of an IND / IRT traveler when my parents lived in the Manhattan in the late '40s (he rode on and remembers the Gibbs cars)*. As he used to say, "I knew nothing about Brooklyn." So, though even though the BU's ran until '58 and the C-types until '56 he wasn't aware of them, so we never did a father-son excursion to ride them. Unfortunately I have no clear memories of riding the last Hi-V's during the mid either. Some of one's "kid memories" you remember photographically. Others - like the BMT cars we rode from Qns. Plaza to transfer to the Lex, I have no clear memory of, except the lower windows on the side doors, so I as a kid could look out - could have been AB's or D's. I vaguely remember riding post-war cars on the Lex local - we took the local up to 86th where my Dad's office was. And I have unclear memories of riding much older trains - window were very dirty and I had to stand on tiptoe to see over the layer of dirt. Lo-V's or Hi-V's? I just don't plain remember. There was one morning, though, an older train arrived at 59th, we got on, (I must have been 6 1/2 or 7 years old) and I remember the motors sounding much, much louder than the R9s and also, the hum/ traction groan, ramping up in pitch very quickly. Each time the train stopped and started it felt like it was going to fall apart. Could these have been Hi-Vs? I have been told that the Hi-V motors growled deeper than the Lo-V's. Does my description fit them, or could these have just been Lo-V's that needed a whole lot of maintenance? Your thoughts are welcomed. Thanks! :) |
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