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Re: Canarsie Line

Posted by Express Rider on Mon May 18 18:25:31 2020, in response to Re: Canarsie Line, posted by Bill Newkirk on Mon May 18 13:41:24 2020.

Nice! I have large and small BMT destination sign rolls but no sign box. - Maybe June 1968 I was railfanning north on the F train with my younger brother Roger & saw the ABs being scrapped from the Avenue X (?)station.

I told my brother to hang out and wait on the platform, I left the station crossed the road and went through the open gate - told the scrapping crew what I wanted (they must have been independent contractors), they said sure. One of them gave me a screwdriver, and I went in to two different cars and unscrewed two sets of destination roll signs. Lived out a dream only a NY railfan can have.

Trying to take an entire signbox in this situation would been too cumbersome and bulky.

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