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Re: I meant 1986, not 1989 in above post. Re: Pic: blast from the past |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jul 25 23:21:02 2006, in response to Re: I meant 1986, not 1989 in above post. Re: Pic: blast from the past, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Jul 25 23:10:07 2006. Yes, we got a random red R30 before 1986. Then even our graffitied R30's left, and the R16's began to infest the line, especially around the fall of 1986. And YES, we saw very well that the J was getting all the nice R30's, ane we were stuck with the R16's. I remember sitting in an R16 one day after school wondering what we as M riders must have done to deserve these shit trains (R16). (If the Eastern Division was the ass of the subway system, then the M was the ass of the Eastern Division).Then, as fast as they infested the M, they seemed to disappear, almost overnight. We then got the graffitied R30's back again, and an occasional red one. Slowly, the red ones began to take over, and finally overtake the graffitied ones, and then all of a sudden, it was the late 80's, and all of a sudden a GOHed R42 pulled in. It took me by surprise, but I was already over the "It can't happen" mentality by then. It honestly took me about three stations to figure out that it was actually the old blue doored R42's resurected. I honestly couldn't tell if it was a brand new train or not. They "looked" like the older trains, but then again, they looked BRAND new. And they smelled so good. "New car scent", and the nice cool air conditioning (it was fall, but warm yet) blowing. "This wasn't your father's subway anymore"...... |
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