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Posted by Larry,RedbirdR33 on Sun Feb 7 11:01:36 2010, in response to Classic shot-R21/22 interior, posted by R42 4787 on Sat Feb 6 21:38:23 2010. It was hard being a railfan in the 1970's. Our beloved trains were filthy and marred by graffitti and broke down frequently . There were major derailments and fires nearly every week. It was hard to watch for those of us who were fortunate enough to remember the days of the 1960's when we still had three divisions and looked forward with anticipation to the openning of Chrystie Street Line and all the new services.In the space of a few short years our subway system was dragged into the abyss. A victim of municipal neglect, public indifference ,vandalism and crime. If you went railfanning you tended to do it in the daylight hours usually in the morning and early afternoon, but it wasn't a whole lot of fun riding in a car where all the windows were covered in graffitti and angle deep in garbage. In the early 1980's the MTA and the NYCTA under the leadership of Richard Ravitch and David Gunn began the programs that enabled the system to begin the climb out of the pit. The rebuilding of the magnificent Redbirds for the #7 Line and the arrival of the new R-62's for the #4 Line, together with increased yard securiy and vastly improved car maintenance, car cleaning among other things laid the foundation for the great system that we have today. I know its not perfect but its light years ahead of what we had back then. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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