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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Jul 26 00:09:04 2006, in response to Re: Pic: blast from the past, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Wed Jul 26 00:03:27 2006. I saw them with some, but they were like the "showcase" trains. And the Broadway line was probably the "showcase" line....if there was a such thing. What I mean by that is that they looked the best. As bad as that refrigerator tile may have seemed in the 90's, it was so neat and clean (and modern) on the Broadway line, when the whole system was an old fashioned wreck of a system.I would often take the L on our crap filthy dusgusting trains to Union Square with my father as a kid, and then get the N there. I always thought, "this is the line the 'special' people must ride because they had the nice trains and stations. 49th may look outdated and "Brady Bunch" today, but back then, it may have been the shining star station of the system. When the N and R swapped northern terminals (and fleets) in May of 1987 Yup, the N in the 70's was one of the few clean lines, in general, at least the trains. Although they did get some graffiti, it wasn't like all the other trains. As for your May 1987 comment, that's also true for the M line. The M seemed to go from bad to worse when it was thown off the Brighton and onto the West End back then, at least until the GOHed R42's began to arrive. |
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