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Posted by Express Rider on Thu Jan 8 15:43:05 2015, in response to Re: What is this supposed to be?, posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Thu Jan 8 03:22:45 2015. Hello Joe,Great story (and history too*). Glad you didn't freeze! Do you know about when the trestle south of 180th and the connecting embankment were razed/ dismantled? *You've probably seen the photos of new WF Steinways being towed by el cars from the NHRR property at 138th St. onto the el, for the move to Queens. These photos and yours are historic companions - separated by about 25 years. I found out about Steve in the most unusual and coincidental way. I lived in Boston for 20 years (1972-92). Was in school for a little while, then worked. Always meant to look up the Boston Street Railway Association & do more rail activities on the "T" as they call it, but was always busy with other things. One day I was over in Cambridge, in one of the dozen plus school buildings on the periphery of Harvard. I think I was there to speak with someone about a library staff position that might open up (it didn't). Anyway, I'm sitting outside the guy's office waiting for him to get off the phone or something. I noticed a waste basket next to where I'm sitting. I saw what I thought was a BSRA logo on one the papers sticking out of the basket so i took it out for a look. It was a BSRA flyer announcing upcoming programs. Interesting coincidence for me to find this, in a college building of all places, I thought (like it had been left there for me to find), since I'd never gotten around to contacting the BSRA. One of the programs listed in the flyer stated something like, we'll be including slides taken by the late Steve Zabel. 'The "late" Steve Zabel?' I thought, 'Oh my God, what the heck happened?' He was only older than me by about a year. I had not been active with the ERA since I moved to Boston, so this was a real and unpleasant surprise. I learned more after I moved back. Tragic. A real loss to the railfan community. |
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