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Posted by Neil Feldman on Mon Aug 20 22:08:37 2012, in response to 1987 Train Ride To Coney Island, posted by CJ on Sun Aug 19 20:07:10 2012. I remember the layups done on both West End Center, and Brighton Express Tracks where slants were, and my they were down right horrible. That time, Manny B was closed to 6th Ave. Service causing the split B/D service between Broadway, and 6th Avenue which was similar to B/D/Q/W Service from 2001-2004 with different letters. B used exclusive R40's with the occasional pitch hitter on the Q when shorthanded an R32, or R40M/42. Of coarse the R68 was just being phased in mostly on the D with an occasional run on the B, and Q. The N was the second line to get them, but as the R42's were being phased out for rebuild/return for ENY, the N has the mixture of equipment giving the occasional R40 to it. Don't forget also the majority of the R40 fleet was non-a/c before rebuild, and once that, a/c was in every car as well as new end and side rollsigns, and the removal of the express/local lumination above the storm door. Filth was everywhere on the subway then as seen on the video. Now things have come a long way since then. |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Mon Aug 20 22:49:56 2012, in response to 1987 Train Ride To Coney Island, posted by CJ on Sun Aug 19 20:07:10 2012. Hmm, that was filmed the week before I came to NY for a visit, my first in 6 years. Didn't ride any graffiti trains, though I saw one on the 5 while I was standing at the 33rd St platform. Rode a 62A on the 3, Redbirds on the 7 (went to see the Mets w/ Gooden pitching in one of his first starts out of rehab beat the Cubs) :) Also rode a R-62 at some point and a Hippo on the D. Actually, I arrived in NY on a Wednesday (woulda been the 25th), saw the Mets on Thursday, then on Friday, went to Cleveland to visit some friends (on a tired-ass Pan Am 737-200, ex-Luftshansa). Overnight in Cleveland, then to Champaign-Urbana, IL on TWA via St. Louis (both ex-Ozark DC-9s, as the merger had taken place a few months earlier). Stayed in C=U until Wed. 7/1, then back to NYC (Britt Air Fokker F-27 from CMI to ORD (my only ever prop flight), then a United 727-222 to LGA. Went to the Statue of Liberty on July 4th (patriotic!) then to a cookout at my cousin's house in Brooklyn (which must be when I rode the Hippo. back to LA the next Monday (UA DC-10). Fun times :) |
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Posted by renee gil on Mon Aug 20 22:55:17 2012, in response to Re: 1987 Train Ride To Coney Island, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Aug 20 21:30:39 2012. So the N and R trains went to 600' on or about 5/24/1987 or 11/1987, when the Nassau Street R trains got eliminated?BTW, wouldn't make more sense to extend the B, N, QB, RR, QT, Q, etc. lines to 600' in the 60s when the Broadway/4th Avenue/Brighton/Sea Beach/West End station platforms got extended? Why the long wait until the 80s? Another thing that bothers me is that when the R46's first ran on the N in 1975-76, it was 600' long but when the 60' subway cars ran on the line it was 480' or shorter....it just doesn't make any sense. |
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Posted by renee gil on Mon Aug 20 22:59:12 2012, in response to Re: 1987 Train Ride To Coney Island, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Aug 20 21:30:39 2012. But if you go to HistoricAerials.com and go along the West End El, you'll see nothing but 480 footers in the B line, the aerial images is dated 1987. |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Aug 21 08:54:31 2012, in response to Re: 1987 Train Ride To Coney Island, posted by renee gil on Mon Aug 20 22:55:17 2012. MTA?! Make sense?! LOLOLOLOL |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Aug 21 12:47:49 2012, in response to Re: 1987 Train Ride To Coney Island, posted by renee gil on Mon Aug 20 22:55:17 2012. N trains were 600' before, to handle Queens Blvd demand. The R remained at 480' until the change because there was a lot of rush hour interchanging between the Broadway and Nassau St trains. |
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Posted by CJ on Tue Aug 21 16:34:22 2012, in response to Re: 1987 Train Ride To Coney Island, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Aug 21 08:54:31 2012. Making Sense and MTA do not mix under very very few if not hardly any circumstances in the past. |
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Posted by renee gil on Tue Aug 21 20:07:25 2012, in response to Re: 1987 Train Ride To Coney Island, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Aug 21 12:47:49 2012. So the R was 480' even after 5/24/87 until the Nassau Street R in Nov. '87?I would of thought the R got extended to 600' after the northern terminal switch in 5/1987. |
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Posted by Far Rockaway A Train on Wed Aug 22 04:48:08 2012, in response to Re: 1987 Train Ride To Coney Island, posted by mcorivervsaf on Mon Aug 20 12:13:59 2012. Have you ever taken a ride on an "A" train from Rockaway on the late afternoon during beach season? |
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