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Posted by Karl M, Ex New Yorker on Sun Jul 31 11:54:13 2005, in response to Re: Metropolitan Ave, posted by Rail Blue on Fri Jul 29 11:04:46 2005. Reading all you young wippersnappers posts about Metropolitan Ave,I was riding the old gate cars to Metropolitan Ave with my friends then to all points from there, the summer time was the best as they would run the convertibles with several open panels on each side, the smell of the trees,the creosote from the ties and the ozone from the motors is still embedded in my mind as I can still seem to recall those smells, when I left NYC in mid 1967 Metropolitan Ave was still as I remember it throughout the 60's on looking at the google satellite photos there seems to be a very large building at the left of the station and some other buildings to the right of the ststion at right angles to the train tracks, the gate cars were and still are my favorites, when the cars entered the station, the conductor would start down the asile flipping the seats to face the trains direction, one time us kids would follow and flip them back again he caught us and we got escorted out onto Metropolitan Ave, but we got back into the station by climbing through the mens rest room window....great memories. Karl |
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