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Re: Modern Subway Cars vs. Older Subway Cars (pros, cons, memories, thoughts)) |
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Posted by Nilet on Sun Feb 4 18:12:04 2007, in response to Modern Subway Cars vs. Older Subway Cars (pros, cons, memories, thoughts)), posted by subway nutz on Sun Feb 4 17:55:21 2007. I like the older cars better, even though they were all retired from revenue service before I was born. :(I like the mid-age cars (like the R32s and R33s/36s) much better than the R160s and R142s because they're less sterile, they don't hide the fact that you're on a train, and they have that thing at the front that I'm always The automated announcements on the new cars are nice enough (since they're never garbled) but I'd much prefer human conductors; when was the last time you heard Charlie Pellet say: "You with the blue shirt! Get out of the doorway! If we have to run express, they'll all know it's because of you!" Not to mention that the newest cars are way too brightly lit. Probably my best memory from railfanning would be the cab ride I got, but that doesn't count for your question because that wasn't on NYCT. My best memories from subway railfanning would probably be the time I rode the Brooklyn Unions. Next up would be the R9s to Coney. (The Rockaway nostalgia trip wasn't nearly as good.) One of my better memories, I suppose, was waiting for a RFW on the (A) at Broadway Junction on a weekend, before the (C) was extended into Brooklyn on weekends, getting the RFW on the first try, having it switch onto the express track just outside the station, then changing at 168th Street for a (1) train (with RFW R62A singles) which was also diverted onto the express track. That was one of the many fantrips I took with my (also railfan) father before I was old enough to go railfanning on my own. Perhaps another fun subway memory was when I was out railfanning in 6th grade and found that the slants were all running on the (Q) now. My worst subway memories would probably include the numerous cop annoyances, though only one cop encounter was thouroughly annoying. (I'd had annoying encounters with T/Os and TSSs though.) |
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