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Posted by Bob Andersen on Wed Feb 22 11:18:58 2017, in response to If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Avid Reader on Wed Feb 22 11:04:25 2017. I'd rebuild the Myrtle, Lexington and Fulton Els to Sands St., grab the Transit Museum's 3 BRT Gate cars and ride those Els! |
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Posted by SLRT on Wed Feb 22 11:28:33 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Bob Andersen on Wed Feb 22 11:18:58 2017. To which I would that, given the mechanical equipment necessary, I'd have Coney Island shops build a small fleet of BUs. |
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Posted by Alan Follett on Wed Feb 22 12:31:30 2017, in response to If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Avid Reader on Wed Feb 22 11:04:25 2017. King, eh? My face on the money, and the right to print as much of it as I wanted, inflation not an issue? All right, then, I'd reconstruct a complete steam train as used in, oh, 1875 or so on the Brooklyn surface lines, and run it on the open-air portions of today's Coney Island lines.If my happy dominions extend as far west as Chicago, I'd also round up some of the operable North Shore and CA&E cars from museums, and run them on fantrips on the "L." Alan Follett Hercules, CA |
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Posted by ro_jo on Wed Feb 22 13:15:10 2017, in response to If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Avid Reader on Wed Feb 22 11:04:25 2017. I'm surprised nobody has said it already:I'd "rebuild" the IRT-LIRR track connection at Atlantic ave. I'd ride from Grand central (Track 1, shuttle platform), through the IRT-LIRR connection, all the way to Belmont racetrack. We'd have to do this in the Mineola, of course. Hopefully we could get the 600vdc coffee pot in working order, so we'd have something to drink along the way. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Wed Feb 22 13:45:04 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Bob Andersen on Wed Feb 22 11:18:58 2017. I'd rather go back to 1923 and ride every older elevated line, including the shuttles. That would include the out-of-service Broadway Ferry shuttle, using the single remaining westbound (towards the ferry) track. |
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Posted by SLRT on Wed Feb 22 13:53:51 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Elkeeper on Wed Feb 22 13:45:04 2017. You're sure you wouldn't like to go back just a little earlier so you could ride the Manhattan els before 3-tracking? Not to mention the Brighton via Fulton L. But maybe don't ride on November 1, 1918. |
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Posted by nasadowsk on Wed Feb 22 19:57:39 2017, in response to If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Avid Reader on Wed Feb 22 11:04:25 2017. MP-54s running again. Both LIRR and PRR versions.And a GG-1... |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Wed Feb 22 20:37:33 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by ro_jo on Wed Feb 22 13:15:10 2017. 168th St Jamaica to Gun Hill Road via Lexington Ave and the Nassau Loop. This would require some temporary connection between the BMT and IRT at Chatham Sq, however. |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Wed Feb 22 22:47:18 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Alan Follett on Wed Feb 22 12:31:30 2017. A new fleet of 10 Electroliners w/ the shunts removed (so they could do over 100 mph).And on the steam side, get the drawings and go out to West Burlington Shops to build 5632 (2nd), get the 2 B&O engines at the Museum brought up to FRA compliant, and maybe a few others. Get the drawings and build a bunchof Budd dome coaches. Do you need longer list? |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Thu Feb 23 02:01:50 2017, in response to If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Avid Reader on Wed Feb 22 11:04:25 2017. Build an overhead (no, not underground) "Union Station" in lower Manhattan that all the diesel (and steam) railroads from Long Island and New Jersey could run into. Then ride the B&O's Royal Blue out of there to Washington DC. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Thu Feb 23 15:36:51 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by SLRT on Wed Feb 22 13:53:51 2017. Even earlier than that, please! I would love to ride the Manhattan els when the Forney locomotives pulled the old gates, prior to electrification. After riding all of the lines during the day, i would love to watch the locomotives change ends at South Ferry, during the PM rush hours. That must have been something to watch with 4 lines and only 2 platforms! |
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Posted by Express Rider on Thu Feb 23 17:26:19 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Elkeeper on Thu Feb 23 15:36:51 2017. and when you were finished railfanning for the day, you could get a steak dinner somewhere for a nickel, and a pitcher of beer for two cents maybe. |
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Posted by Nilet on Thu Feb 23 18:26:09 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Express Rider on Thu Feb 23 17:26:19 2017. You wouldn't want to eat it.... |
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Posted by Nilet on Thu Feb 23 18:27:11 2017, in response to If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Avid Reader on Wed Feb 22 11:04:25 2017. What does it mean, being KING? Can I schedule a fan trip on existing infrastructure? Adapt infrastructure to accommodate? Build entire new lines? |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Feb 23 22:28:24 2017, in response to If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Avid Reader on Wed Feb 22 11:04:25 2017. I haven’t had Burger King in a while. |
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Posted by Avid Reader on Fri Feb 24 12:37:56 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by nasadowsk on Wed Feb 22 19:57:39 2017. Ahhh, now that's do-able! |
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Posted by Avid Reader on Fri Feb 24 12:42:07 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Nilet on Thu Feb 23 18:27:11 2017. Dude! You're the frigin' KING, you are omnipotent, not impotent.Adapt your inFANTASYSTRUCTURE any way you want. |
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Posted by HART BUS on Fri Feb 24 12:58:35 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by ro_jo on Wed Feb 22 13:15:10 2017. As Mel Brooks said "Its good to be the king". Because he'd have enough gelt to get the Mineola restored to its former glory. Then we'd give Shoreline Trolley enough of a donation to allow the restoration work and "borrowing it" for the trip. |
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Posted by Bob Andersen on Fri Feb 24 15:19:56 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by HART BUS on Fri Feb 24 12:58:35 2017. That's what I was going to do if I won yesterday's Power Ball - but I didn't :-( |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Fri Feb 24 15:43:14 2017, in response to If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Avid Reader on Wed Feb 22 11:04:25 2017. last, but notleast, i'd finance an expedition to find the lost 76th Street station. Just to settle this once and for all!!! |
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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Fri Feb 24 15:47:47 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Elkeeper on Fri Feb 24 15:43:14 2017. last, but notleast, i'd finance an expedition to find the lost 76th Street station. Just to settle this once and for all!!! I am with you a hundred percent on that one. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Fri Feb 24 17:58:12 2017, in response to If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Avid Reader on Wed Feb 22 11:04:25 2017. put together a real all redbird train and video it from the rfw |
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Posted by Express Rider on Fri Feb 24 20:23:52 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Nilet on Thu Feb 23 18:26:09 2017. Restaurants must have had good cuts of beef even then.the nickle and two cents prices - I was being facitious - maybe the steak dinner was 15 cents. :) |
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Posted by Express Rider on Fri Feb 24 20:26:10 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Bob Andersen on Wed Feb 22 11:18:58 2017. iawtp!!!... plus spend some time exploring Sands st. & Park Row stations. and give me a good SLR with a couple of dozen rolls of color film for a day's worth of BRT-BMT photos |
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Posted by Nilet on Fri Feb 24 20:56:26 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Express Rider on Fri Feb 24 20:23:52 2017. But they didn't have standards.There was no FDA, the Pure Food and Drug Act wasn't passed until 1906, and the understanding of food science, hygiene, and so forth was in a very primitive state. It doesn't matter what cut of beef they have, and it doesn't matter the price— you wouldn't want to eat it. Olog might though. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Fri Feb 24 21:34:46 2017, in response to Re: If you were KING what would your Vintage Fantasy Fan Trip be?, posted by Nilet on Fri Feb 24 20:56:26 2017. yep. I've heard about The Jungle. Haven't read it yet. |
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