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Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City |
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Posted by heypaul on Fri Feb 12 08:32:06 2016 Scrapped Subway Car Photos |
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Posted by MainR3664 on Fri Feb 12 08:43:42 2016, in response to Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by heypaul on Fri Feb 12 08:32:06 2016. Cool photos indeed!! Slightly off-topic- but how did the cars get there? Barge from SBK yard? Or taken individually by flatbed truck, perhaps? |
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Posted by North Brooklyn on Fri Feb 12 09:45:49 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by MainR3664 on Fri Feb 12 08:43:42 2016. I'm guessing via Barge. |
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Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City |
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Posted by North Brooklyn on Fri Feb 12 09:46:16 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by MainR3664 on Fri Feb 12 08:43:42 2016. Either way, miss those Twin Towers. :( |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Fri Feb 12 10:12:57 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by North Brooklyn on Fri Feb 12 09:46:16 2016. IAWTP |
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Posted by 3-9 on Fri Feb 12 12:21:12 2016, in response to Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by heypaul on Fri Feb 12 08:32:06 2016. What was the car in the second to the last pic? It looks like some kind of observation car. |
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Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City |
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Posted by chud1 on Fri Feb 12 14:29:30 2016, in response to Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by heypaul on Fri Feb 12 08:32:06 2016. 5 drooling stars out of 5 drooling stars for a bygone era.chud1. :)..... |
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Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City |
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Posted by MainR3664 on Fri Feb 12 15:00:29 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Fri Feb 12 10:12:57 2016. Yeah, me too. I miss the Twin Towers terribly... |
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Posted by Joe V on Fri Feb 12 19:25:33 2016, in response to Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by heypaul on Fri Feb 12 08:32:06 2016. Toward the end, an LIRR PT72 coach interior (with the single windows) |
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Posted by tunnelrat on Fri Feb 12 19:39:18 2016, in response to Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by heypaul on Fri Feb 12 08:32:06 2016. FRED ASTAIR DID IT FIRST IN "ROYAL WEDDING" |
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Posted by Lord Vader on Fri Feb 12 20:10:09 2016, in response to Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by heypaul on Fri Feb 12 08:32:06 2016. Kinda depressing a bit seeing all these cars I used to ride as a kid just tossed around like that. Had I known about this place when I was younger, would have loved to scavange around those old cars.Vader |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Feb 12 21:37:00 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by MainR3664 on Fri Feb 12 15:00:29 2016. Me too!! |
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Posted by Express Rider on Fri Feb 12 21:39:12 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by Lord Vader on Fri Feb 12 20:10:09 2016. I was lucky enough to see AB's being scrapped at Avenue X while riding the Culver line in early summer '68.Everyone there was working for the private contractor, one of them gave me a screwdriver, and I went and started scavenging. Got a pair of roll signs - one large and one small, and one of those little handles/ knobs to unlock/open the motorman's cab. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Fri Feb 12 22:01:30 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Feb 12 21:37:00 2016. When being built, I remember they were critized for not their style, not fitting in, and for their boxiness, but eventually they became part of the NY skyline.For me that was on one chilly winter night. I had gotten off the subway in the Prince St. neighborhood, or maybe west of that (don't quite remember). I was going out to hear music. I waa walking south, maybe on 7th ave. - and there they were. The twin towers at night, all windows lit, with the bulding's profile amidst the skyline. They were at home and belonged to New York. |
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Posted by Jace on Fri Feb 12 22:46:49 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by MainR3664 on Fri Feb 12 08:43:42 2016. The subway cars were scrapped in Greenville right next to the float bridges. They came over from Bush Terminal by barge. I know someone who worked the tug bringing them over and I went over to the yard a few times to take photos and scavenge roll signs and other bits. There were twisted up cars everywhere. Never saw any LIRR cars there though, I'm guessing that was somewhere else. |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Feb 12 23:00:19 2016, in response to Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by heypaul on Fri Feb 12 08:32:06 2016. In California and maybe some other states there are automobile junkyards where you pay an entrance fee, and then can wander around and take whatever parts you want. Just imagine if this subway junkyard were still around and had a similar policy. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Feb 12 23:26:28 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by Express Rider on Fri Feb 12 22:01:30 2016. True. In the beginning they were criticized for being like two headstones, no archetectural value, so style, chrisma compaired to the other buildings with "style", etc. They ruined the skyline. Just ask anyone living in Brooklyn Heights in the day.Now I miss them so much. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Feb 12 23:46:47 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Feb 12 23:26:28 2016. From the time they went up until the TV antennas were finally relocated from Empire to the North Tower, those towers totally screwed up TV reception throughout the city with severe ghosts on every channel. But once that was finally done, they became memorable instead of a curse. :) |
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Posted by North Brooklyn on Fri Feb 12 23:52:09 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Feb 12 23:46:47 2016. The following days after the North tower got destroyed, my TV was wall fucked up. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Feb 13 00:12:18 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by North Brooklyn on Fri Feb 12 23:52:09 2016. If it weren't for Armstrong's monstrosity of an antenna near Montclair, NJ, many of them would have been off the air for a long time. The problem was most of the TV's (except for channel 2) abandoned Empire and the original multi-antenna was no longer. Because Armstrong's old FM antenna was still there in New Jersey, along with a few other repeater stations over in New Jersey, it was quite a disaster for the TV channels having all their eggs on top of that one basket. Here's an interesting background on what it took for them to light back up after 9/11 ...http://www.tvtechnology.com/miscellaneous/0008/911-recovery-continues/190143 |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Feb 13 13:16:46 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Feb 13 00:12:18 2016. Interesting stuff, thanks for posting.The one question i'm thinking of is were any of those transmitters insured?? If so, some of the $$$ loses could be offset somewhat. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Feb 13 13:51:40 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Feb 12 23:00:19 2016. Here in metro Denver, you just sign in at the junkyard. |
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Posted by randyo on Sat Feb 13 17:05:07 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Feb 13 13:51:40 2016. Some of my friends and I used to do that in the Bronx when the Lo-vs were being scrapped and at Sarnelli’s in Bkln when the multis and the early steels went. We would just walk in and whoever was in charge gave us free reign to take what we could carry. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Feb 13 17:44:14 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by Jace on Fri Feb 12 22:46:49 2016. LIRR cars went out by barge from LIC. Naparano (sp) of Newark was the intended scrapper IIRC |
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Posted by Joe V on Sat Feb 13 18:13:12 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Feb 13 17:44:14 2016. I think the last few MP54's in 1975 had been sitting so long in Corona, they had to cut them up right there as they were too corroded to be road worthy just to get to the barge. |
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Posted by Karl M, Ex New Yorker on Mon Feb 15 11:48:22 2016, in response to Re: Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Feb 13 13:16:46 2016. Great stuff indeed. Karl |
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Posted by GIS Man on Tue Feb 16 10:38:27 2016, in response to Late 1980's Photos of Scrapped Subway Cars Taken in Jersey City, posted by heypaul on Fri Feb 12 08:32:06 2016. Eat your heart out, Donald O'Connor!LOL Bob |
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