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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Mar 11 20:37:02 2016, in response to Re: What is this supposed to be?, posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Mon Jan 5 19:35:22 2015. Thanks for posting & sharing. Quality all around, both in pictures, information & history.Having grown up in Flushing line territory, my first subway ride was on the R-12/14s that ran on the line in the mid 50s. AFAIK the Lo-Vs were gone from the Flushing Line by 1950/51. It was a big culture shock to me when I went to my first Yankee game in 1959 with my older brother. It was an exciting adventure. As a kid, Going to the game was my first ride on the old "Woodlawn-Jerome" exp. to 161st & River Ave on a Lo-V was a trip to a different country. Im in Da Bronx! Noisy as hell, rode like a tank but was scary fast , at least to an impressionable kid. Another shock was going to my aunts house in Astoria. Me & Mom would take the #7 to QBP & switch to the BMT to Hoyt Ave. In comes a big old lumbering Standard. Compared to the R-12s the Standards were huge. It seemed to me like a trip on the LIRR with its 3/2 seating, wide isles & general roomy feel. But they came across as " ancient" with its incandescent light bulbs, torn wicker seats, paddle fans & growling traction motor gearing. Some things you don't forget when you are a kid. Its all coming out in my book!:) |
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