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Re: Modern Subway Cars vs. Older Subway Cars (pros, cons, memories, thoughts)) |
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Posted by TonyBroadway on Sun Feb 4 18:15:24 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. 1. I personally prefer the old cars, for purely nostalgic reasons...the new stuff is better, cheaper, more efficient.2. The newer cars are warm in the winter, and cool in the summer...they're also more reliable. The old cars LOOK better, but I'll choose substance over style. 3. I started riding the trains in the early 1960's, when all of the old stuff was still running, so my best memories are riding in the old cars. My worst memories are riding in the old cars...FREEZING in the winter, and sweating my ass off in dark subway cars stuck somewhere underground for 25-30 (or more) minutes...a near-death experience. My absolute worst experience: Getting on a Slant 40 AA train at Columbus Circle in the summer of 1982, realizing two things when the doors closed...the heat was on for some reason, and the diarreah-smelling bum across from me was stinking up the whole car, and the heat was making it worse...as soon as I tried the end doors, which were BOTH locked, the train stopped in the tunnel for the longest 10 minutes of my life. My absolute best experience: Getting off that AA, at the next stop, and catching a bad-ass studly tank of an R-10 CC, and having it go express in the Bronx (even though it evening rush hour, and the CC was supposed to be the local) and getting me to 205th St. in no time flat. |
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