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Post by splashdown on Oct 25, 2010 6:52:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2010 7:13:05 GMT
Excellent photos. Thanks for the link.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2010 8:28:03 GMT
Brilliant - thank you.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2010 10:03:31 GMT
Thanks it reminds me of my holiday a few weeks back, saw a couple of pics of bedford avenue in Brooklyn which was near an area we went bar hopping in
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2010 14:39:12 GMT
A very good set of pictures. Captures the seldom seen side of subway life!  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2010 15:08:42 GMT
A very good set of pictures. Captures the seldom seen side of subway life! Everything from graffiti, kids, turnstile jumpers, music, coppers and post-stabbing forensics. 85 looks at the NYC Subway. Who likes the look of the R62/R62A and R142/R142A/R142S cars? I do! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2010 15:17:00 GMT
Hmm, they are nice cars... The old Redbirds got dumped in the sea out there! 250 cars to make artificial sea life havens.... Theres also this site: www.nycsubway.org/ |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2010 15:28:56 GMT
I know of that site, I read it a lot. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2010 15:39:41 GMT
Yes. And I want a couple of books about the subway! 'Cars of the BMT' I think one was... its in the Transport Museum bookshop.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2010 15:44:28 GMT
A lot of the articles on the site are good. There was one all about the cars that became the Redbirds, and one on the whole R62/R62A program, and one about how the system went down the drain (proper one, not the W&C ;D ) in the 1980s...
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Post by phillw48 on Oct 25, 2010 16:28:28 GMT
Doe's anyone know of the type and number of the NY subway car that is/was at Quainton road?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2010 16:36:16 GMT
I really enjoyed the pictures. They brought back memories of quite a few business trips to New York where we would always ride the subway at lunch and after work.
I never thought that I would get nostalgic for all the grungy atmosphere - but the pictures brought that out! Thanks for the link, Splashdown.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2010 19:28:25 GMT
Doe's anyone know of the type and number of the NY subway car that is/was at Quainton road? I'm pretty sure the one at quainton road was an "R10" unit thats used as the museums cafe. |
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Post by phillw48 on Oct 26, 2010 16:18:47 GMT
Hmm, they are nice cars... The old Redbirds got dumped in the sea out there! 250 cars to make artificial sea life havens.... Theres also this site: www.nycsubway.org/Very interesting site. Pity it does not give a great deal of information about the stock such as dimensions and dates in service. |
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Post by tubeprune on Oct 26, 2010 18:31:51 GMT
What a wonderful set of photos. I remember many of these places when I worked for the subway in 1982-3. The last shot of the No 7 line station at 46th/Bliss is where I used to live in Queens! I used the Redbirds every day to go to work.
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Post by tubeprune on Oct 26, 2010 18:38:04 GMT
Doe's anyone know of the type and number of the NY subway car that is/was at Quainton road? I'm pretty sure the one at quainton road was an "R10" unit thats used as the museums cafe. It's an R6 No. 1144 built 1935 for the IND. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2010 3:32:35 GMT
TP: what were you doing in NY again? I have this fascination with the IRT division...  ;D but revere the BMT... |
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Post by tubeprune on Oct 27, 2010 6:41:59 GMT
TP: what were you doing in NY again? I have this fascination with the IRT division... ;D but revere the BMT... I was part of the rehabilitation team which upgraded the system. I did the prototype IND/BMT inter-car barrier system and went all over the system train testing it, usually with the motormen. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2010 7:48:01 GMT
TP: what were you doing in NY again? I have this fascination with the IRT division... ;D but revere the BMT... I was part of the rehabilitation team which upgraded the system. I did the prototype IND/BMT inter-car barrier system and went all over the system train testing it, usually with the motormen. They needed LT people to rehab the system from the brink of collapse in the Eighties? Interesting... Do you mean the inter-car barriers of Bostwick-style barriers? |
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Post by SE13 on Oct 27, 2010 16:38:08 GMT
I was part of the rehabilitation team which upgraded the system. I did the prototype IND/BMT inter-car barrier system and went all over the system train testing it, usually with the motormen. They needed LT people to rehab the system from the brink of collapse in the Eighties? Interesting... Do you mean the inter-car barriers of Bostwick-style barriers? There is a thread somewhere or other on here where TP describes what he did over there...... I've got a different thread to find first, then I'll have a look for that one. EDITFound it: Clickety click |
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Post by tubeprune on Oct 27, 2010 20:10:44 GMT
I was part of the rehabilitation team which upgraded the system. I did the prototype IND/BMT inter-car barrier system and went all over the system train testing it, usually with the motormen. They needed LT people to rehab the system from the brink of collapse in the Eighties? Interesting... Yes. In those days LU was respected as one of the best systems in the world. No, my project was the spring barriers on the IND cars. We did a test train at 207th St shops and took it round the system. That was fun! Especially standing on top of the el at East New York looking down two levels to the yard below which had one of the sharpest curves on the system. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2010 2:29:46 GMT
Spring barriers?  |
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Post by tubeprune on Oct 28, 2010 8:55:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2010 9:03:22 GMT
OH. Understood now. Thanks. (I thought they were chains...  ) |
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