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Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Tue Aug 11 18:28:16 2020, in response to Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Aug 11 18:19:43 2020. Haven't you seen the movie Beat Street?Chasing the elusive white car is part of the later storyline. There is a scene at Fresh Pond Yard where Ramo sees it from a rooftop and begins scheming. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Aug 11 19:18:55 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Aug 11 18:28:16 2020. Nah I was a Breakin' boy ... |
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Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Tue Aug 11 20:17:37 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Aug 11 19:18:55 2020. I saw the movie just for the subway scenes |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Tue Aug 11 22:53:17 2020, in response to Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Aug 11 18:19:43 2020. Here's 8219 as a snowbird. I will guess this is the switch just outside Court Street at the Museumhttps://youtu.be/d7he8f2L_BE 8219 |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Aug 11 23:30:22 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Aug 11 22:53:17 2020. Wow |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Tue Aug 11 23:33:59 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Aug 11 23:30:22 2020. It looks like they position the train so that it's "off the juice" not touching the third rail. Or they cut power for the scene which is most likely. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Wed Aug 12 00:23:52 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Aug 11 23:33:59 2020. I’m sure they cut the power with actors down there |
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Posted by BILLBKLYN on Wed Aug 12 00:34:40 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Aug 11 22:53:17 2020. That's where, after graduating the Academy, us Tunnel Rats had to get "trained" on walking the tracks Nd the dangers we could encounter |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Aug 12 08:08:17 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Aug 11 22:53:17 2020. We should make a list (lol) of all the films that R-27/30s have appeared inMoney Train Beat Street Die Hard with a vengeance (R30s on the 3!!) Others? Once when I was still in Southern California, I was driving by the railroad tracks just north of Union Station and saw a set of R-30s parked on one. Obviously had been used in a movie. Of course, I didn't have a camera with me, and by the time I could get back there, they were gone 😕 That's why I always carry a camera with me these days (or failing that, the phone). |
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Posted by jrf2 on Wed Aug 12 10:59:07 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Aug 11 22:53:17 2020. I have not found the clip, but didn't Timothy Hutton mark up a Snowbird in Turk 182? |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Wed Aug 12 13:29:22 2020, in response to Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Aug 11 18:19:43 2020. Nice. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Aug 12 14:47:39 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Aug 12 08:08:17 2020. Saturday Night FeverDeath Wish? |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Wed Aug 12 14:55:00 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Wed Aug 12 13:29:22 2020. I agree, great photo. |
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Posted by randyo on Wed Aug 12 15:14:24 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Aug 12 08:08:17 2020. How about the movie “Short Walk to Daylight” involving passengers stuck in what was supposed to be the Joralemon St Tube on a 4 train during an earthquake? While the train was properly signed up as a 4, what was used was a train of the museum R-1/9s which certainly wouldn't have fit on the IRT. |
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Posted by jrf2 on Wed Aug 12 15:31:49 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by randyo on Wed Aug 12 15:14:24 2020. Even more wrong would be a few seconds shot from an episode of 12 O'Clock High. Set in London during WW2. A reporter is pushed into an oncoming train. It's an R1/9 signed "AA". |
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Posted by Express Rider on Thu Aug 13 05:47:05 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by jrf2 on Wed Aug 12 15:31:49 2020. And along the same line (no pun intended), in "Pay or Die" Ernest Borgnine is at the Spring St. station on the First Subway, probably around 1905 or so*. Someone from the organied crime gang pushes him onto the tracks as the train approaches. He falls forward, film cuts to a second or so shot of a moving R1/9 also signed "AA".*movie set in the early 20th century in Little Italy, Borgnine was a cop going after the "Black hand" gang. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Thu Aug 13 05:47:59 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Aug 11 20:17:37 2020. as any good railfan would! :) |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Thu Aug 13 06:14:17 2020, in response to Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Aug 11 18:19:43 2020. Or sixteen if you count each door leaf as a separate door. Or twenty if you count the cab doors and doors at each end of the car. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Aug 13 07:05:33 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Aug 12 08:08:17 2020. The Warriors. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Aug 13 07:33:52 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by randyo on Wed Aug 12 15:14:24 2020. Short Walk to Daylight features the R-1/9s. |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Thu Aug 13 08:00:32 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Aug 12 14:47:39 2020. Yes on SNF. Tony (John Travolta) rode on a train of 27/30s on the RR going to Manhattan to find Stephanie after Bobby died in a fall off the Verrazano. Other R-27/30s were seen, as well as an R-46 (N layup?)I did not see Death Wish, so I don't know. From stills I saw, I thought it was IRT equipment, but I could be mistaken. |
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Posted by jrf2 on Thu Aug 13 08:02:17 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by Express Rider on Thu Aug 13 05:47:05 2020. At least it was in the city !! |
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Posted by r384149 on Thu Aug 13 10:45:13 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Aug 11 18:28:16 2020. Funny thing, I just showed my fiance' that movie. I wondered what they did with that white R27 after the film. I guess left it painted white?Another funny thing in that movie is how they freak out about white trains yet there are several scenes filmed near the IRT Els in the Bronx and you see trains of white IRT cars going overhead and Ramo says nothing. Plot holes. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Thu Aug 13 12:21:15 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by jrf2 on Thu Aug 13 08:02:17 2020. Hah! Good point! |
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Posted by George Foelschow on Thu Aug 13 12:37:56 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Aug 12 08:08:17 2020. I saw the same cars parked. I believe they were used in the filming of "Money Train". |
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Posted by Joe V on Thu Aug 13 13:09:32 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by George Foelschow on Thu Aug 13 12:37:56 2020. I believe today they are forlorn in a junk yard in the American southwest some place. I also read somewhere that the museum that has some PE interurbans with H2 couplers got some from these R30's. |
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Posted by Lord Vader on Thu Aug 13 14:19:05 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by r384149 on Thu Aug 13 10:45:13 2020. Because they weren’t so white and so clean 😁Vader |
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Posted by Lord Vader on Thu Aug 13 14:23:18 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by jrf2 on Wed Aug 12 10:59:07 2020. Nope silver blue.Vader |
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Posted by Lord Vader on Thu Aug 13 14:27:50 2020, in response to Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Aug 11 18:19:43 2020. Two cars were done for the movie “Beat Street”. After filming, I saw one of these cars on an M train laid up at Sheepshead Bay on the Ave Z overpass one weekend. Matter of time before the regular graffiti crews got to it.Vader |
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Posted by randyo on Thu Aug 13 16:05:03 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Aug 13 07:33:52 2020. That’s exactly what I was referring to. |
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Posted by randyo on Thu Aug 13 16:06:21 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by Joe V on Thu Aug 13 13:09:32 2020. I can’t be sure why since Many of the pE interurbans had H2s as standard equipment anyhow. |
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Posted by Joe V on Thu Aug 13 20:14:17 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by randyo on Thu Aug 13 16:06:21 2020. They need spares ? |
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Posted by Train Dude on Fri Aug 14 08:37:38 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Aug 12 08:08:17 2020. Also appeared in "Death Wish" |
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Posted by Train Dude on Fri Aug 14 08:39:13 2020, in response to Re: Photo: the elusive 60 foot, four doored snowbird, posted by randyo on Thu Aug 13 16:06:21 2020. one of those railfan myths that appear out of nowhere. |
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