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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Thu Jan 8 03:22:45 2015, in response to Re: What is this supposed to be?, posted by Express Rider on Thu Jan 8 01:46:50 2015. Hello again Express RiderI also knew OF Steve Zabel - but never personally met him - but I heard from many sources back then that he was a TA employee, later motorman, long time railfan, and was constantly taking system and equipment photos - and was fairly nice guy if sort of an --ummm, unusual and unconventional type of guy - and later found out why and how he died (was it in 1984 or near that time) - was killed in his apartment by a friend-pal...stabbed, throat slashed, etc. Quite violent and very sad end. Thankfully thanks to his very extensive photography work, his thousands of now vintage photos survive him. Anyway, I hung off many rooftops during day and night hours many times - and in some snow storms and even rain - to get overhead photos along EL lines --- been there and done it. Its much "easier" now to do so now instead, heh, on my O-Scale EL Layout.... as per some real neighborhoods these days, much safer NOT to be on rooftops with cameras! I remember one day back in winter of 1963, during a snow storm and very FRIGID weather, my leaning over the roof of a 5 story building along the easterly side (the northbound NYW&B 2 tracks side) of the ex-NYW&B concrete 4 track trestle between E. 177th and E.178th streets, Bronx - to take photos of a long line of BRAND NEW 1964 Worlds Fair SMEE R-36 cars in Blue & White WF Colors -- being towed uphill into the E.180th St (abandoned) NYW&B Station - by another 10 car train "under power via 3rd rail only at its location on the trestle" of identical 1964 WF SMEES which backed southward to couple to the "dead" new cars. And was spinning its wheelsets to get traction on the slight upgrade during the tow job, heh ! Just a bit earlier a NEW HAVEN RR RS-3 diesel pushed the 15 new (but not yet operable) cars uphill from the NYW&B-NHRR track junction switch below the E.172nd st auto bridge. there was a small upright sign that was on the R-o-W that stated "NHRR CREWS TO STOP SHIPMENTS AT THIS POINT HERE". Still have the photos ! Thought I was going to freeze to death - I was 1/2 century MUCH younger back then, however, heh, and survived ! Those cars and that part of the NYW&B trestle south of E.180th St and its long earth embankment southward down to the NHRR-AMTRAK main - are all gone now and history ! regards - Joe F |
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