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More Sad News |
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Posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 10:58:45 2021 Just heard that one of the guardians of the NYCT Museum Fleet has left us. Mike Hanna passed at 90 years of age.RIP |
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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Thu Jul 22 11:05:27 2021, in response to More Sad News, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 10:58:45 2021. Train Dude: This is sad news indeed. My condolences to his family and friends. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by Pelham Exp on Thu Jul 22 11:17:50 2021, in response to Re: More Sad News, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Thu Jul 22 11:05:27 2021. Sad News Indeed..... RIP. Was definitely an asset to the Museum and will be greatly missed. |
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Posted by Allan on Thu Jul 22 12:19:36 2021, in response to More Sad News, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 10:58:45 2021. Oh my.That is sad news indeed. He will be missed by all. RIP Mike. |
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Posted by Mark S. Feinman on Thu Jul 22 12:46:18 2021, in response to More Sad News, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 10:58:45 2021. There wasn't anything on any subway car that he couldn't fix. A real good guy. May his name be a blessing. RIP.--Mark |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Thu Jul 22 12:48:17 2021, in response to More Sad News, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 10:58:45 2021. Sorry for the loss and condolences to family and friends. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Thu Jul 22 14:49:40 2021, in response to More Sad News, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 10:58:45 2021. Condolences |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Jul 22 14:52:33 2021, in response to Re: More Sad News, posted by Mark S. Feinman on Thu Jul 22 12:46:18 2021. I agree! |
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Thu Jul 22 15:28:08 2021, in response to More Sad News, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 10:58:45 2021. May Mike Rest in Peace.He did so much work for the Museum and the hobby. A life well lived. |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Jul 22 16:05:36 2021, in response to More Sad News, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 10:58:45 2021.  Movement of museum cars - Mike Hanna front and center (Match 5, 1989) 
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Thu Jul 22 17:41:41 2021, in response to [PHOTOS] Re: More Sad News, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Jul 22 16:05:36 2021. Wow those are great! |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Jul 22 17:45:09 2021, in response to More Sad News, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 10:58:45 2021. Damn....met him on a MOD fantrip. RIP. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Thu Jul 22 18:42:14 2021, in response to More Sad News, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 10:58:45 2021. RIP |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Jul 22 18:44:42 2021, in response to More Sad News, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 10:58:45 2021. May he rest in peace. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Jul 22 18:46:41 2021, in response to [PHOTOS] Re: More Sad News, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Jul 22 16:05:36 2021. 923 was already missing its trigger boxes then. |
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Posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 18:47:22 2021, in response to [PHOTOS] Re: More Sad News, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Jul 22 16:05:36 2021. Nice |
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Posted by William A. Padron on Thu Jul 22 18:47:38 2021, in response to More Sad News, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 10:58:45 2021. I wish can I say more words that could be said of the passing of Mike Hanna, but this is indeed a sad and devastating loss in the transit community. He is definitely one singular individual who cannot be replaced.The best I can say for now that through his vision and dedication, Mike Hanna did save his heart and energy in getting those museum cars up and running for all the generations out there to ride and enjoy. Godspeed to you, Mike Hanna, and thanks for all your damn best and everything else in the subway car preservation movement, including saving R-10 car #3184.  -William A. Padron ["a.c.f."] |
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VIEWING & FUNERAL MASS - Mike Hanna |
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Posted by William A. Padron on Thu Jul 22 19:23:46 2021, in response to Re: More Sad News, posted by William A. Padron on Thu Jul 22 18:47:38 2021. Viewing:Friday, July 23, 2021 2:00PM-4:00PM, 7:00PM-9:00PM Flinch & Burns Funeral Home 34 Hempstead Avenue (Corner of Peninsula Boulevard) Lynbrook, New York 11563 Funeral Mass Saturday, July 24, 2021 11:00AM Our Lady of Peace Church 25 Fowler Avenue Lynbrook, New York 11563 Thank you long time friend Mike Fusco for the information -William A. Padron [ ] |
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Posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 19:24:52 2021, in response to VIEWING & FUNERAL MASS - Mike Hanna, posted by William A. Padron on Thu Jul 22 19:23:46 2021. Thank you for posting |
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Posted by Express Rider on Thu Jul 22 20:00:38 2021, in response to VIEWING & FUNERAL MASS - Mike Hanna, posted by William A. Padron on Thu Jul 22 19:23:46 2021. This is very sad news. |
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Posted by jimmymc25 on Thu Jul 22 20:41:43 2021, in response to More Sad News, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 10:58:45 2021. RIP.I never heard of him til today and I'm amazed at how much he gave of himself. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Thu Jul 22 21:17:28 2021, in response to Re: More Sad News, posted by jimmymc25 on Thu Jul 22 20:41:43 2021. We have a museum fleet because of Mike Hanna, Don Harold, and other unsung heroes who were working for the TA during the mid to late 1960s. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Thu Jul 22 21:19:36 2021, in response to Re: More Sad News, posted by Express Rider on Thu Jul 22 21:17:28 2021. I hope arrangements have been made to pass Mike Hanna's transit collection on to the ERA or another railfan in the community. |
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Posted by SUBWAYMAN on Thu Jul 22 22:29:55 2021, in response to More Sad News, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 10:58:45 2021. He did quite a bit of work at the Trolley Museum of New York.RIP Mike Hanna. :( |
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Statement From The TMNY's President [Re: More Sad News] |
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Posted by William A. Padron on Fri Jul 23 07:04:07 2021, in response to Re: More Sad News, posted by SUBWAYMAN on Thu Jul 22 22:29:55 2021. This was posted on Facebook, and this post pretty much says it all. It is indeed a great tribute to the legacy of Mike Hanna.Statement below is credited to the original author of this status post. My name is Erik Garces, and I am the president of the Trolley Museum of New York. I would like to share something with you now. This will be long, but to do the man justice, I cannot tell it quickly. My friend Mike Hanna was 90 when he passed last night after a prolonged illness. In everyone’s life there’s usually someone (or if you’re really lucky – more than one) outside your family that one calls a mentor. Often older, this person helps you in career, or outside endeavors, as they offer advice and open doors for you. I have been very blessed to have had a man like Mike as such a friend. Mike Hanna started working in the subway in 1950 at age 19 and rose from entry level union member in Car Equipment Department, to the last man to hold the title of Assistant General Superintendent. When he retired in 1995 at Coney Island Overhaul Shops after 46 years he didn’t leave however. Every Tuesday for another 15+ years Mike led a team of volunteers in restoring a large portion of the NY Transit Museum’s fleet. But this story goes deeper than that. Now, that he’s finally caught that train he missed, I can share with you some of the adventures. Today, there are a handful of major cities with transit systems which maintain either a museum or a small fleet of vintage railcars for special occasions and to demonstrate living history for future generations. NYC was the first and in large part because of Mike Hanna. In the mid 1970’s run up to the NYC Subway’s 75th anniversary Diamond Jubilee a fellow who was in management by the name of Don Harold proposed to use the decommissioned station at Court Street in Brooklyn as a public exhibit of transit technology and history. The gift shop would raise funds for it’s expenses selling what the Authority was prepared to toss as junk, but to railfans was gold. And it would be staffed by qualified volunteers from the ranks of employees. The jewels of the collection were a small fleet of ancient subway cars that Mike had been hiding in various places around the system for over a decade. Using tricks like smudging the car numbers on paperwork, storing cars on the ends of congested tracks in the far corners of yards and even in unused tunnels at times, Mike had amassed a significant number of cars from as old as 1902. In a few cases, there were whole trains of them. The Transit Exhibit proved so popular that it became permanent, the fleet so beloved that excursions were run on weekends, and to this day. All of which was possible because of Mike Hanna. I met Mike in 1987 when I was young, and my career in Transit was still in Car Equipment Dept. Mike had a love affair with trolley cars and with none being left in the system, he’d been involved with the Trolley Museum of New York where he was president at the time. It was he that brought me in there and where today, I am now president. I still work in the subway, though in RTO but my memories of Mike’s stories are still vivid. When he got involved with the Trolley Museum, in I am told 1962, the South Brooklyn Railway freight tracks still ran down the center of McDonald Avenue, under the Culver Line, right outside of Coney Island Yards. They’d been using diesel engines but the original trolley wire for electric locomotives was still strung up, though disconnected. Using his ingenuity, Mike somehow managed to jumper the nearest third rail in the yard to the overhead trolley wire where he, Everett White the Museum’s first president, and Frank Voyticky from the Trolley Museum were running a handful of the Museum’s cars up and down McDonald Avenue on Sunday evenings when no one was around. Two of those cars are still in our collection. I would love to find some of the photos that exist out there. The man had his fingers in so many different pies; he shoveled coal on steam engines at a tourist railroad in Connecticut for fun. Mike was in the Army reserves and operated freight trains during call ups where they moved munitions. Then there was the Transit Museum and the Trolley Museum, not to mention raising a family and married to the same woman the whole time; who must be a saint for putting up with all that. I drove out to Mike’s house a few times to schlep him up to the Trolley Museum in recent years. He remained President Emeritus and always wanted to check on progress there. The round trip actually would be the best part of the day since that’s when you’d get those stories. He had beaten cancer, and was frail at this point, being his late 80’s. I felt honored that the family let me have him for the day. Or perhaps they knew that telling Mike “no” wasn’t going to work. I last saw Mike aboard the Holiday Train of IND R1 through R9 cars that the NY Transit Museum operates annually on Sundays from Thanksgiving to New Years. I was blessed to be the conductor for the last two seasons it ran and Mike would come on the train early and ride a few trips. Though he was from Brooklyn, and presumably a BMT car class would have been his favorite; it was those cars which he adored. And so much so, that he brought one up to the Trolley Museum of all places where he was about halfway done restoring it. Our team of volunteers has picked up the torch and it’s seen more progress since, having actually run under it’s own power for the first time in decades last spring. I have a lot to be thankful for from Mike, and you do too. So whenever you see one of the old train or trolley cars in a photo, video or in person, remember him. He was one of us. -William A. Padron ["TMNY"] |
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Posted by subfan on Fri Jul 23 07:58:02 2021, in response to Statement From The TMNY's President [Re: More Sad News], posted by William A. Padron on Fri Jul 23 07:04:07 2021. A moving tribute from one who knew Mike well. I never had the privilege of meeting him, but owe him nonetheless for his efforts on behalf of the railfan community.RIP Mr. Hanna. subfan |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Fri Jul 23 09:09:46 2021, in response to Statement From The TMNY's President [Re: More Sad News], posted by William A. Padron on Fri Jul 23 07:04:07 2021. Beautiful! |
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Posted by Mr RT on Fri Jul 23 09:14:21 2021, in response to Statement From The TMNY's President [Re: More Sad News], posted by William A. Padron on Fri Jul 23 07:04:07 2021. Thanks Bill for posting Erik's post ... RIP Mike |
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Posted by Allan on Fri Jul 23 11:20:37 2021, in response to Statement From The TMNY's President [Re: More Sad News], posted by William A. Padron on Fri Jul 23 07:04:07 2021. Wonderful sentiment.I agree with them. |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Fri Jul 23 16:56:39 2021, in response to More Sad News, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 10:58:45 2021. Nice long life. RIPI appreciate his efforts in preserving the cars of yesteryear, including this one that my grandfather may very well have operated on the 15 | JAMAICA LOCAL   |
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Fri Jul 23 17:02:38 2021, in response to More Sad News, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 22 10:58:45 2021. RIP2000 YARD TOUR I WAS THERE |
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Posted by subfan on Sat Jul 24 17:38:16 2021, in response to Statement From The TMNY's President [Re: More Sad News], posted by William A. Padron on Fri Jul 23 07:04:07 2021. If I remember correctly, Erik used to post on the old SubTalk forum, did he not? I was wondering what happened to him.subfan |
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