|
|
| Re: What is this supposed to be? (1388362) | |||
 |
|||
| Home > SubChat | |||
|
[ Read Responses | Post a New Response | Return to the Index ] |
|
||
|
Re: What is this supposed to be? |
|
|
Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Thu Mar 10 22:26:00 2016, in response to Re: What is this supposed to be?, posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Thu Jan 8 03:22:45 2015. Hello again Express Rider Back on Jan 8, 2015 (over a year ago) I replied to you with the BELOW copy-pasted (edited down from original) message " quote -- ==================================================================== " ....... 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 !......" ===================================================================== NOW to March 10, 2016 -- I recently found those photos in their photo album binder-book I made 52 years ago, heh, and finally had them scanned from each booklet page (one of my 4 binder books I created on the NYW&B Railway). They even have my 52 year old typewritten captions ! PS: I still use THAT typewrite regularly today ! These photo were taken by me way back in February 1964, 52 YEARS AGO,(gads time flew !) I think another person stated back in Jan 2015 that they would have liked to see the photos ! Well, I recently finally placed them in a newly created FLICKR PHOTO ALBUM - and here they are all public-access viewable via the Album LINK BELOW. ALSO, BELOW the link URL I attached three photos (with their captions) from the Album. NEW IRT 1964 N.Y. WORLDS FAIR R-33-36 CARS BEING DELIVERED FEB 1964 VIA EX-NYW&B RAILWAY BRONX E.172nd STREET NHRR JUNCTION 3 SAMPLE PHOTOS BELOW:    The ABOVE photo in Feb. 1964 is looking S/W on Lebanon Avenue, just south of the ex-NYW&B E.180th St Exp. Station, to the now gone NYW&B Steel 4 Track Trestle. The new R-33-36 cars are on the former N/B LOCAL track of the NYW&B RR AGAIN, Check the FLICKR PHOTO ALBUM for very many more photos -- I hope it was worth the one year WAIT ! ALSO - for those NEW VIEWERS to this Thread -- check out all the other material and photos in this one year old 2 page Thread Regards - Joe F |
|
|
|