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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat May 30 15:23:05 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Lexington Ave. el, posted by murray1575 on Sat May 30 12:56:48 2020. No User Serviceable Parts Inside |
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Posted by Bill West on Sat May 30 16:35:27 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Lexington Ave. el, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat May 30 15:23:05 2020. We had a subassembly that used plug in relays for serviceability. When I did a review of the design I found that specifying a plug-in base on the relay and providing a socket for it each cost more than the relay itself. After a redesign the subassembly cost less than half of the previous models and one version replaced 3 previous ones. It was impossible to justify quick reparability at that stage and this was all with made in America parts. The new design actually could be repaired with a soldering iron but it was just too cheap to tie up an electrician's time. A throw away approach isn't nice but it did use significantly less material resources.Bill |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat May 30 19:16:29 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Lexington Ave. el, posted by TransitChuckG on Sat May 30 13:58:46 2020. As long as you didn't touch the base of the high voltage compartment tube socket, you were OK. |
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Posted by zac on Sat May 30 20:28:57 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Lexington Ave. el, posted by Elkeeper on Sat May 30 13:19:39 2020. Tubes were designed to last, except that early TVs were so hard on them that they failed constantly. I have tube audio equipment and haven't had a tube go bad in years. What usually does go bad is the socket. They oxidize and don't make good contact with the tube pins so you think you have a bad tube.I still have an old Dumont TV that I tried to resuscitate. It had actually been working when the grandson unplugged it the last time, and I took it off his hands a few years later. The main problem with something that old is the caps. The old caps didn't last forever and would leak. I replaced them all and tried it out but didn't get anything out of it, and then broke both wrists in a cycling accident later that week. I never went back to it. I still have the schematic posted in my basement where I worked on it. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Sat May 30 22:47:01 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Lexington Ave. el, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sat May 30 06:46:13 2020. There were no girls on the platform at all. I'll take a guess and say the station is Tompkins Ave. Boys High School was about 4 blocks away on Marcy Ave, between Putnam Ave & Madison St. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Sun May 31 13:06:17 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Lexington Ave. el, posted by Elkeeper on Sat May 30 22:47:01 2020. Does anyone have station pics of Tompkins & Lexington? If the 3 windows on the building behind the platform canopy match, it's Tompkins Ave! |
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Posted by Joe V on Sun May 31 14:44:28 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Lexington Ave. el, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sat May 30 14:44:49 2020. I remember those things. They were in small appliance stores. My father would take a lot of tubes out of the TV, test them out for their strength, replace some, then put them back to improve the picture.Then there was horizontal hold and vertical hold when the picture was "jumping". |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sun May 31 15:23:35 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Lexington Ave. el, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sat May 30 14:44:49 2020. Sure brings back memories. We'd go to our local hardware store and tell the clerk we wanted to use the tube tester. He's just say, "Be my guest!" |
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Posted by randyo on Sun May 31 16:34:51 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Lexington Ave. el, posted by Joe V on Sun May 31 14:44:28 2020. I recall in my old neighborhood there was a local drug store that had tube testers and sold tubes. |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Sep 17 18:57:12 2020, in response to [PHOTO] Lexington Ave. el, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu May 28 11:43:23 2020.  Franklin Ave (Oct 5, 1950)   Grand Ave.  Thompkins Ave  Myrtle & Grand Ave. Older trailer mid consist. (Oct 5, 1950)  Lexington Ave train about to switch across the Broadway line to end of the line at Bridge-Jay St.  Thanks in advance for viewing and your comments. |
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Posted by Joe V on Thu Sep 17 19:19:02 2020, in response to [PHOTO] Lexington Ave. el - UPDATE, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Sep 17 18:57:12 2020. If a train car ever split that switch in the foreground, it could have taken the tower down. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Thu Sep 17 20:24:24 2020, in response to [PHOTO] Lexington Ave. el - UPDATE, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Sep 17 18:57:12 2020. More gold man! |
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Posted by Dave on Thu Sep 17 21:15:57 2020, in response to [PHOTO] Lexington Ave. el - UPDATE, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Sep 17 18:57:12 2020. Suh-weet!When did the El (either IRT or BMT) start putting up full-height wood "walls" so you couldn't see over the side of the metal railing at the back side of the platform? I assume it was for safety as well as to stop yutes from throwing debris over the railing onto cars or pedestrians. |
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Posted by Dan on Sun Sep 20 16:28:31 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Lexington Ave. el - UPDATE, posted by Joe V on Thu Sep 17 19:19:02 2020. What an awful tower design. Imagine having to climb up/down that ladder in bad weather or on any night. Not even covered stairs. I hope there was a bathroom in that tower. |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Sun Sep 20 18:52:51 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Lexington Ave. el - UPDATE, posted by Catfish 44 on Thu Sep 17 20:24:24 2020. Beauties! |
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Posted by randyo on Mon Sep 21 01:28:49 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Lexington Ave. el - UPDATE, posted by Dan on Sun Sep 20 16:28:31 2020. When I was a Tw/M all towers had bathrooms especially the ones situated in odd places like that. A few odd towers that were right off the platform didn’t have one and we used the public restroom. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Mon Sep 21 01:38:06 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Lexington Ave. el - UPDATE, posted by TransitChuckG on Sun Sep 20 18:52:51 2020. Oh yeah!!!! :)Agree with all the other posts. History here! Excellent photos!!! You don't see that many photos taken along the length of the Lex. Thank you so much for posting!! |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Sep 21 08:44:37 2020, in response to [PHOTO] Lexington Ave. el - UPDATE, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Sep 17 18:57:12 2020. Great stuff. Thanks for posting!! I noticed in the first picture, the line is built over a one way street. Can't recall any other Els in NYC built over one way streets. |
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Posted by MainR3664 on Mon Sep 21 11:53:57 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Lexington Ave. el, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sat May 30 14:44:49 2020. I remember a machine like that in a hardware store in Flushing... |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Mon Sep 21 13:40:01 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Lexington Ave. el - UPDATE, posted by Dave on Thu Sep 17 21:15:57 2020. When did the El (either IRT or BMT) start putting up full-height wood "walls" so you couldn't see over the side of the metal railing at the back side of the platform? I assume it was for safety as well as to stop yutes from throwing debris over the railing onto cars or pedestrians.I would guess the early or mid 60's. I may be wrong. Bill Newkirk |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Mon Sep 21 15:00:14 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Lexington Ave. el - UPDATE, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Sep 21 08:44:37 2020. The elevated segment over Lexington Ave, itself, was built with the pillars directly underneath the track structures. Lexington Ave never had horsecar, streetcar, or bus service. Back in the 1880's, no motor vehicles, either. |
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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Mon Sep 21 15:52:02 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Lexington Ave. el - UPDATE, posted by Bill Newkirk on Mon Sep 21 13:40:01 2020. Bill: My memory is that it began sometime in the 70's. It made have started earlier but I was out of the country between 1968-72. There were many problems with vandals throwing stuff on the platforms on to people. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Sep 21 16:03:11 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Lexington Ave. el - UPDATE, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Sep 21 08:44:37 2020. Fulton Street is one way between Jamaica Avenue and where it merges with Arlington Avenue. I also wonder about various streets that look two narrow today to possibly still have been two way by the time that the els were taken down, like Front Street, Pearl Street, Division Street, Murray Street (or was it Warren Street), 3rd Street and 53rd Street. That last one I know became one way by 1924. |
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Posted by zac on Mon Sep 21 19:23:34 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Lexington Ave. el, posted by MainR3664 on Mon Sep 21 11:53:57 2020. I could use one today. I haven't changed tubes in my amp or pre-amp in years and I'm sure a few or week. |
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Posted by jan k. lorenzen on Wed Sep 23 13:50:24 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Lexington Ave. el, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri May 29 20:06:05 2020. Yes, true, it wasn't much of a jog, but just enough that cars have driven into the front yard of the house on Lafayette for years, if they missed driving into the traffic light pole on the corner. I lived on St. James between DeKalb and Lafayette for 9 years. |
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