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Posted by Karl M, Ex New Yorker on Sun Jul 31 19:17:39 2005, in response to Re: Metropolitan Ave, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jul 31 12:36:20 2005. Ok...where that railroad track is that goes under Metropolitan Ave had steam engines running with freight trains...I think from the LIRR but I can't be positive anyway us kids had an idea one evening that we can have a freight train roll over us...well at about where the track is level with the transit station there was a pit with some boards covering it we four kids removed some boards and were almost able to stand in it, there was ash and cinders at the bottom, we were all having a grand old time untill one of us saw the steam wngine aapproaching from the direction of Metropolitan Ave,it was on the other side and it was coming at a pretty good speed one of the boys started getting second thoughts and wanted to climb out, we had to hold him down as the train was on top of us there was a short blast of hot air then the noise....to this I can still hear that noise of the box cars and the squealing of the cars and the loud empty cars and a few flat wheeled cars,talk about dumb things to do, as soon as that train was a little distance those boards flew up and we were out of there,that kid that wanted out at the last minute told his parents on us but luckly they didn't beleive him, he never hung out with us again, yea that whole area even around farmers oval park on the other side of the PRR tracks was plenty of trees and places to go and watch GG1's fly by with freight and passenger trains....THEM were the good ol days. Karl |
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