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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat May 7 09:43:33 2022, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for May 7, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sat May 7 08:32:04 2022. My first 8th Ave. subway ride took place on this date in 1967. It was a rainy Sunday and we were on our way to the Museum of Natural History. From 42nd St. we took a three-car AA train to 81st. That marked the first time I really noticed the spur-cut bull and pinion gear musical sound as the train accelerated. It was quite literally music to my ears. As it turned out, the museum hadn't opened yet when we got there, so my father asked for directions to Rockefeller Center. A gentleman told him, "Take an AA to 59th and a D train to 47-50th." After lunch at that same Howard Johnson restaurant as the week before, we headed back to the museum, where we got an earful as a n/b R-10 Abbott ripped past in a blur of teal and white. You could see the southern end of the n/b platform fro inside the museum, as well as trains going by. On our way back to PABT, we raced a s/b B part of the way. I still remember the backlit Coney Island side signs on those old timers. |
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