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10 years ago on the (N) line |
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Posted by gOld_12th on Fri Aug 19 17:49:58 2016 R160 train cars began 30 day testing |
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Posted by Strike_Mark on Sat Aug 20 03:25:48 2016, in response to 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by gOld_12th on Fri Aug 19 17:49:58 2016. The beginning of the end... |
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Posted by R33WF on Sat Aug 20 08:15:51 2016, in response to 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by gOld_12th on Fri Aug 19 17:49:58 2016. Video from that day. |
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Posted by Edwards! on Sat Aug 20 14:19:00 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by R33WF on Sat Aug 20 08:15:51 2016. Time flys..The new cars are now preteens. |
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Posted by #4SeaBeachFred on Sat Aug 20 14:29:47 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by Edwards! on Sat Aug 20 14:19:00 2016. Edwards----Let's also hope that they keep my Sea Beach on the Manny B and don't put it back into that Montague rat hole of a tunnel as they did in the 90's through 2003. Since I live in California I need to know, have they radically changed the route on the "N" recently, besides what was in this thread? |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 20 14:43:59 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by #4SeaBeachFred on Sat Aug 20 14:29:47 2016. Your favorite train runs via bridge most of the time. It runs via tunnel during the late hours when the R isn't running. Once the 2nd Ave. line opens, chances are it will run express in Manhattan once again. |
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Posted by Edwards! on Sat Aug 20 18:06:13 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by #4SeaBeachFred on Sat Aug 20 14:29:47 2016. Nah...other than thr usual weekend construction work..and the rebuilding of thr Sea Beach stations..nothing out of the ordinary. |
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Posted by Edwards! on Sat Aug 20 18:09:45 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 20 14:43:59 2016. Yup.With the W coming back,the N will return to the exp tracks,where it belongs. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 20 20:06:34 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by Edwards! on Sat Aug 20 18:09:45 2016. It does indeed belong on the express tracks. |
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Posted by randyo on Sat Aug 20 20:50:37 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by Edwards! on Sat Aug 20 18:09:45 2016. Except on the midnights when it will continue to run lcl in Manhattan via the tunnel. |
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Posted by #4SeaBeachFred on Sat Aug 20 22:38:17 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 20 14:43:59 2016. That's god to hear, and I noticed the new cars on that video that was run on this board. Now to clean up those open cut stations. That would put the Sea Beach in the tall cotton. |
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Posted by #4SeaBeachFred on Sat Aug 20 22:40:48 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by Edwards! on Sat Aug 20 18:06:13 2016. Thanks Edwards. Steve8AVEXP is usually my man on board to keep me abreast, but why don't you let me know how those stations on the open cut in Brooklyn are coming along. Last time I saw them they looked like something out of Tokyo in 1945. |
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Posted by Edwards! on Sat Aug 20 23:06:56 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by #4SeaBeachFred on Sat Aug 20 22:40:48 2016. Would be happy to,but Im only in New York City mostly for business these days.I Try to get in some spotting,but you know how it goes. |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Aug 21 07:06:15 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by #4SeaBeachFred on Sat Aug 20 22:40:48 2016. 
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Aug 21 07:08:39 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by #4SeaBeachFred on Sat Aug 20 22:38:17 2016. 
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sun Aug 21 08:56:08 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Aug 21 07:08:39 2016. Straight from a new R-27. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sun Aug 21 08:56:41 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by #4SeaBeachFred on Sat Aug 20 22:38:17 2016. Your favorite line is undergoing an extreme makeover at this time. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sun Aug 21 09:05:24 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Aug 21 07:06:15 2016. Manhattan-bound trains are currently running express (not nonstop, but express nonetheless) while stations on that side are being rehabbed. Once that phase is done, they'll do the Coney Island-bound platforms. |
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Posted by chud1 on Sun Aug 21 09:22:01 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Aug 21 07:06:15 2016. 5 drooling stars out of 5 drooling stars for this picture.chud1. :)..... |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Aug 21 09:29:09 2016, in response to 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by gOld_12th on Fri Aug 19 17:49:58 2016. >the R160's are 10 years old.>The R143's are 15 years old >the R68's are 29-30 years old 
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Posted by randyo on Sun Aug 21 16:39:31 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Aug 21 07:08:39 2016. I never thought that the BMT roll signs should have included the name “Broadway” since many of the Southern Div BMT routes utilized Nassau St as well. BMT signs should have only displayed “Brighton,” "Sea Beach,” “West End,” and "4th Avenue” with the appropriate lcl and exp classifications since with the exception of the Sea Beach, the remaining Southern Div lines had both Bway and Nassau services and the 4 Av should even have included a single “R” for the Nassau bankers’ specials. The lack of appropriate signage forced the TA to use improper signs like “M” for both 4 Av and Brighton services even though the letter “M was clearly intended for the Myrtle/Chambers service on which it was eventually used. The Eastern Div letters of J/JJ, KK, and M should not even have displayed “Nassau St” but rather the Jamaica, Bway Bkln and Myrtle Av readings since in their case, all BMT eastern services other than the 14 St Line operated into Nassau St. It was the Manhattan centric attitude of the cesspool of incompetence that passed (and continues to pass) for TA management and planning that was responsible for the improper signage on the R-27s through 38s! |
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Posted by zac on Mon Aug 22 17:56:03 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Aug 21 09:29:09 2016. It is hard to believe that the R68s are as old as the R9s were when I started riding the subway. The R9s looked and smelled so old compared to the R27s that were starting to run. The 68s don't look that old to me. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Aug 22 21:59:38 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by zac on Mon Aug 22 17:56:03 2016. The R-1/9s, with their dry friction journals, had that distinct "subway aroma" of journal lubricant. In fact, my IND route and destination curtains still have that aroma. |
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Posted by #4SeaBeachFred on Tue Aug 23 19:36:17 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Aug 22 21:59:38 2016. Interesting to know Steve. However, I wasn't around to see those cars operating on the Sea Beach. When I left New York almost 62 years ago it the magnificent and poweful Triplex that was the signature car for my favorite train. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Tue Aug 23 19:39:03 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by #4SeaBeachFred on Tue Aug 23 19:36:17 2016. The R-1s ran tests on the Sea Beach before the IND opened. In fact, they ran in revenue service sporting #4 signs up front. Car 381 was part of that test. |
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Posted by #4 Sea Beach Fred on Tue Aug 23 22:44:29 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Tue Aug 23 19:39:03 2016. Interesting to know Steve, but I never rode on one if they were in service back in the late 40's and early 50's. |
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Posted by MainR3664 on Wed Aug 24 07:27:43 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by #4 Sea Beach Fred on Tue Aug 23 22:44:29 2016. R1/9s ran on other BMT lines as well, the #2 fourth Avenue line in the early 1950s, and, as I'm sure we all know, the Eastern Division from 1968-77.But other than the tests in 1931 or so, I don't think they were ever on the Sea Beach... |
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Posted by MainR3664 on Wed Aug 24 07:28:44 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by #4SeaBeachFred on Sat Aug 20 22:40:48 2016. That's what they looked like the last time I was out there, in 2012.. |
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Posted by #4SeaBeachFred on Wed Aug 24 14:30:09 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by MainR3664 on Wed Aug 24 07:27:43 2016. Thanks MainR. I remember just about every trip I took on the Sea Beach when I lived in Queens back in the late 40's and early 50's, and it was always the Triplex that would tool into Times Square and 42nd Street, then one of the terminals of that line, later moved to 57th Street as I was told after we moved to California. I did see a strange looking train on the #2 4th Ave Local besides that ugly Standard car so that might have been the R-1, |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Wed Aug 24 19:45:00 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by #4 Sea Beach Fred on Tue Aug 23 22:44:29 2016. That group of R-1s ran tests in 1931. They were already on the property, but because the 8th Ave. line wouldn't open for another year, they worked out the kinks on BMT rails, since BMT tunnels had the same clearances. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Wed Aug 24 19:46:09 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by #4SeaBeachFred on Wed Aug 24 14:30:09 2016. You may be interested to know that Triplexes 6095 and 6112 are operable once again. So are the mean old museum BMT standards. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Wed Aug 24 19:47:12 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by MainR3664 on Wed Aug 24 07:28:44 2016. As Moe put it, you won't recognize them once the rehab is finished! |
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Posted by #4SeaBeachFred on Thu Aug 25 16:19:21 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Wed Aug 24 19:46:09 2016. Yes Steve, I know. I rode both on Fan Trips in 2002 and 2003. I also heard they were put on the shelf for repairs a couple of years later. Good to know they are operational again. |
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Posted by randyo on Thu Aug 25 16:42:29 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by #4 Sea Beach Fred on Tue Aug 23 22:44:29 2016. From what I was told, the IND cars that ran on the 4 Av Lcl in the 1950s were R-9s, the R-1s having been sent back to the IND a few years earlier. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Aug 25 19:48:48 2016, in response to Re: 10 years ago on the (N) line, posted by #4SeaBeachFred on Thu Aug 25 16:19:21 2016. Not only that, but the electric portions on the coupler at the 6112C end were reworked so that the Triplexes can m. u. with the museum R-1/9s. Only the door controls don't trainline. |
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