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Trip Down Memory Lane---Conductor Harry Nugent on #1 Train, 14 Years Ago |
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Posted by heypaul on Wed May 6 20:40:10 2026 https://youtu.be/qXzjm6BNyp0?si=F_3LNPenRVB65SP5 |
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Re: Trip Down Memory Lane---Conductor Harry Nugent on #1 Train, 14 Years Ago |
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Posted by Pelham Exp on Wed May 6 21:47:05 2026, in response to Trip Down Memory Lane---Conductor Harry Nugent on #1 Train, 14 Years Ago, posted by heypaul on Wed May 6 20:40:10 2026. How did Train Operators like working with him? IRT/T/0 what do you think? Who was it better to work with him or Conductor Frank on the #6? |
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Re: Trip Down Memory Lane---Conductor Harry Nugent on #1 Train, 14 Years Ago |
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Posted by randyo on Fri May 8 05:40:59 2026, in response to Re: Trip Down Memory Lane---Conductor Harry Nugent on #1 Train, 14 Years Ago, posted by Pelham Exp on Wed May 6 21:47:05 2026. Long before Harry Nugent there was a C/R who worked the Bway lcl (#1) named Abe Steinberg in the late 1950s/early 1960s. He was known as the Poet Laureate of the Subways and even made TV appearances in his official TA capacity. He made rather colorful PA announcements such as "137th St, City College for better knowledge,” “66th St the 99 upside down station” and other similar ones. I often rode his train home from high school in the afternoons. I suspect that since Harry Nugent also worked the #1, that Abe Steinberg might very well have broken him in which would account for C/R Nugent’s similarly colorful announcements. |
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Re: Trip Down Memory Lane---Conductor Harry Nugent on #1 Train, 14 Years Ago |
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Posted by heypaul on Fri May 8 07:04:43 2026, in response to Re: Trip Down Memory Lane---Conductor Harry Nugent on #1 Train, 14 Years Ago, posted by randyo on Fri May 8 05:40:59 2026. Long before Harry Nugent there was a C/R who worked the Bway lcl (#1) named Abe Steinberg in the late 1950s/early 1960s. He was known as the Poet Laureate of the Subways and even made TV appearances in his official TA capacity. He made rather colorful PA announcements such as "137th St, City College for better knowledge,” “66th St the 99 upside down station” and other similar ones. I often rode his train home from high school in the afternoons. I suspect that since Harry Nugent also worked the #1, that Abe Steinberg might very well have broken him in which would account for C/R Nugent’s similarly colorful announcements.If I'm reading it right, he was on the Fred Allen radio show on 12/13/39, interviewed as the "Subway guard" who is the poet laureate. When you heard him on your trips to high school, I'm guessing it was on the P.A.equipped cars. But did he also make his signature announcements on the older IRT cars? Also was "subway guard" a common job title of subway conductors? |
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Re: Trip Down Memory Lane---Conductor Harry Nugent on #1 Train, 14 Years Ago |
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri May 8 17:21:10 2026, in response to Re: Trip Down Memory Lane---Conductor Harry Nugent on #1 Train, 14 Years Ago, posted by heypaul on Fri May 8 07:04:43 2026. I think the R16's were the first PA equipped cars, not counting experimental, in 1955. |
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Re: Trip Down Memory Lane---Conductor Harry Nugent on #1 Train, 14 Years Ago |
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Posted by randyo on Sat May 9 03:53:16 2026, in response to Re: Trip Down Memory Lane---Conductor Harry Nugent on #1 Train, 14 Years Ago, posted by heypaul on Fri May 8 07:04:43 2026. On trains with two C/Rs the second position C/R was often referred to as the “rear guard” so it might have been possible that he was not yet fully qualified as a C/R first position. Certain of the IRT cars such as gate cars and the composites on the el had multiple C/Rs so those not “in charge” may have been referred to as simply “guards.” I’m not sure what the official private company titles were prior to unification but after the city took over, those operating doors were all officially titled as “conductors” with sub titles like “first position,” “second position,” and “platform” added as descriptors. |
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