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Posted by Dave on Fri Feb 23 10:42:07 2018 1949 view of the 3rd Ave El Harlem River Bridge and viaduct showing a seven car N/B Composite car train on the upper level and a seven car MUDC train on the lower level. Note the New Haven RR catenary wire.
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim* on Fri Feb 23 11:44:47 2018, in response to Prepare to foam, posted by Dave on Fri Feb 23 10:42:07 2018.* I'll see and raise!:) Shown here is a 2nd ave El train, Queensbound in the late 1930s. Completing the NYC scene with kids running in the street in front of an open fireplug. Those were the days!
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Posted by r17-6599* on Fri Feb 23 12:34:21 2018, in response to Prepare to foam, posted by Dave on Fri Feb 23 10:42:07 2018.* Sensational! Trains almost looked posed. And the clarity of the pic is superb. Thanx for the post.
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Posted by ro_jo* on Fri Feb 23 12:37:43 2018, in response to Prepare to foam, posted by Dave on Fri Feb 23 10:42:07 2018.* Is that a a piece of railroad equipment in the background? On/near the NH tracks, past the El. It kinda looks like a horsecart.. -Rob
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Posted by Elkeeper* on Fri Feb 23 13:41:16 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Feb 23 11:44:47 2018.* Probably going to Willets Point Blvd. 2nd Ave-Astoria trains had 5 cars maximum, I believe.
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Re: Prepare to foam
Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Fri Feb 23 14:00:02 2018, in response to Prepare to foam, posted by Dave on Fri Feb 23 10:42:07 2018.* DESKTOP
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Re: Prepare to foam
Posted by Dave* on Fri Feb 23 14:30:30 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by ro_jo on Fri Feb 23 12:37:43 2018.* You are correct, sir!
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Posted by Dave* on Fri Feb 23 14:30:46 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Fri Feb 23 14:00:02 2018.* IAWTP.
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Posted by TransitChuckG* on Fri Feb 23 14:39:36 2018, in response to Prepare to foam, posted by Dave on Fri Feb 23 10:42:07 2018.* That's a keeper, thanks , Dave
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Posted by Bill Newkirk* on Fri Feb 23 15:51:45 2018, in response to Prepare to foam, posted by Dave on Fri Feb 23 10:42:07 2018.* Awesome pics you've been posting Dave. Keep us posted when you're finished with the Time Machine. lol Meanwhile, tunnelrat's stocking up on kielbasa, pirogis and beer ! Bill Newkirk
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Posted by Elkeeper* on Fri Feb 23 16:29:09 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by Bill Newkirk on Fri Feb 23 15:51:45 2018.* Survival food for his 76th St fallout shelter!
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Posted by BILLBKLYN* on Fri Feb 23 17:07:52 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Feb 23 11:44:47 2018.* Fireplug? That's what they called johnny pumps in your neighborhood?
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Posted by randyo* on Fri Feb 23 19:06:27 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by BILLBKLYN on Fri Feb 23 17:07:52 2018.* My neighborhood too!
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Posted by Express Rider* on Fri Feb 23 19:13:03 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Feb 23 11:44:47 2018.* photos to warm an IRT fan's heart!
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Posted by Lou From Middletown NY* on Fri Feb 23 19:14:57 2018, in response to Prepare to foam, posted by Dave on Fri Feb 23 10:42:07 2018.* I think our friend from the Bronx either a} hasn't seen this yet, oe b} has foamed and drooled himself unconscious :P EXCELLENT
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim* on Fri Feb 23 20:30:32 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by BILLBKLYN on Fri Feb 23 17:07:52 2018.* I sit corrected. They were called johnny pumps in Woodside too. Forgetting its proper term is from having a seniority induced "wet brain" from all the times that I was the kid in that picture I guess:)!
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim* on Fri Feb 23 21:04:54 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by Express Rider on Fri Feb 23 19:13:03 2018.* One more from the archives. Queens bound 2nd Ave El train heading for QBP in the mid 1920s
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim* on Fri Feb 23 21:15:09 2018, in response to Prepare to foam, posted by Dave on Fri Feb 23 10:42:07 2018.* This one is one of my faves. Rounding third & heading for home. Set of downtown bound Lo-Vs just left 161st River Ave Sta and the REAL Yankee Stadium in the early 1960s.
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP* on Fri Feb 23 21:31:23 2018, in response to Prepare to foam, posted by Dave on Fri Feb 23 10:42:07 2018.* Wonnaful, wonnaful, wonnaful, wonnaful.
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Posted by Dave* on Fri Feb 23 21:32:04 2018, in response to Prepare to foam, posted by Dave on Fri Feb 23 10:42:07 2018.* Glad you fellas enjoyed the picture!
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim* on Fri Feb 23 21:52:33 2018, in response to Prepare to foam, posted by Dave on Fri Feb 23 10:42:07 2018.* Great stuff, Dave. Keep 'em coming!!
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Posted by jimmymc25* on Fri Feb 23 22:47:05 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Feb 23 21:15:09 2018.* Nice....really nice.
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Posted by ro_jo* on Fri Feb 23 23:52:48 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by Dave on Fri Feb 23 14:30:30 2018.* Correct in that it's a horsecart? What's a horsecart doing in the South Bronx in '49? Surely the industrial operations in the area weren't using horses at the time?? I'm now imagining an old-timey railfan tourist ordering a Central Park horse-drawn carriage around the city on a romantic ride to see cool train stuff of 1949 :) -Rob
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Posted by r17-6599* on Sat Feb 24 01:03:18 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by ro_jo on Fri Feb 23 23:52:48 2018.* In the 50's there were ice delivery men using horse & carts. We'd run after them for a chunk of ice.
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Posted by r17-6599* on Sat Feb 24 01:06:31 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Feb 23 21:15:09 2018.* Familiar sight. Lovely sight. My friends & I would stand a block or so away, in a small lot, and watch the LoV 's blast out of the tunnel into daylight and the southbound trains zoom into the tunnel, motors roaring.
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Posted by chicagomotorman* on Sat Feb 24 10:04:26 2018, in response to Prepare to foam, posted by Dave on Fri Feb 23 10:42:07 2018.* AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Guess the location
Posted by Fisk Ave Jim* on Sat Feb 24 12:30:40 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Feb 23 21:52:33 2018.*
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Re: Guess the location
Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG* on Sat Feb 24 12:57:39 2018, in response to Guess the location, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Feb 24 12:30:40 2018.* Hello Jim I think this is an easy one -- it appears to be looking inbound (towards Queens Plaza part of the line) on the IRT Flushing Line EL around 1916-17 from, above 60th Street at the n/w (inbound) end of the Woodside Ave Express Station with its two island platforms -which will be built behind the photographer. Correct ? regards - Joe F
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Re: Guess the location
Posted by K. Trout* on Sat Feb 24 13:00:28 2018, in response to Guess the location, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Feb 24 12:30:40 2018.* Based on the hills, I'm guessing western Bronx...Marble Hill? Jerome Ave?
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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG* on Sat Feb 24 13:36:27 2018, in response to Re: Guess the location, posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Sat Feb 24 12:57:39 2018.* Hello again Jim In event you are not sure (but I think YOU KNOW the location) -- here is the proof..... BELOW - The 1916 / 1917 era IRT Flushing Line EL construction photo -- looking inbound from above 60th street on the structure track girders just inbound from the 61st St/Woodside Express Station BELOW -- Looking inbound from the westerly-inbound end of the 61st St-Woodside express station in 2003 with a Flushing bound train approaching -- nearly 90 years later ! regards - Joe F
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Re: Guess the location
Posted by Fisk Ave Jim* on Sat Feb 24 15:58:29 2018, in response to Re: Guess the location, posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Sat Feb 24 13:36:27 2018.* Joe; you are the winnah! How that spot looks nowadays.
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim* on Sat Feb 24 16:06:24 2018, in response to Re: Guess the location, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Feb 24 15:58:29 2018.* Almost forgot, the view from underneath.
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Posted by Dyre Dan* on Sat Feb 24 19:03:27 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by r17-6599 on Sat Feb 24 01:03:18 2018.* Was there still ice delivery in the 1950s? It must have been the early '50s. I would have thought most people had electric refrigerators even by then. Maybe the ice men knew they were in a dying industry, and so it didn't pay to invest in motorized trucks.
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Posted by r17-6599* on Sat Feb 24 20:26:15 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by Dyre Dan on Sat Feb 24 19:03:27 2018.* I was born in '48, so it was early 50's for sure, but not TOO early. We even had cobble stone streets, some with car tracks still in 'em. r17
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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33* on Sat Feb 24 20:50:23 2018, in response to Re: Prepare to foam, posted by Dyre Dan on Sat Feb 24 19:03:27 2018.* There were still ice deliveries in the early fifties. I know because we had an icebox in our house. Larry, RedbirdR33
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Re: Guess the location
Posted by qveensboro_plaza* on Sat Feb 24 22:44:15 2018, in response to Guess the location, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Feb 24 12:30:40 2018.* That dirt road coming in at an angle on the left must be what is now Woodside Avenue.
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Re: Guess the location
Posted by Fisk Ave Jim* on Sat Feb 24 22:58:54 2018, in response to Re: Guess the location, posted by qveensboro_plaza on Sat Feb 24 22:44:15 2018.* Correct. And that structure on the right in the middle of the pic is the original St Sebastian's church. My growing up parish
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