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Posted by irtredbirdr33 on Sun Jan 5 10:09:55 2025 Tuscarora Almanac for January 5 1918 – from The Book of First Runs The BRT Broadway Line is extended from Prince Street to Whitehall Street. New stations are opened at Canal Street (Broadway), City Hall (Upper Level), Cortlandt Street, Rector Street and Whitehall Street. Although trains were terminating on the Whitehall Street center track that station did not open for passengers until September 19, 1918. There is a lower level at City Hall station. It is used for the storage of trains. 1918 – from The Book of First and Last Runs Service on the New York Central Putnam Division is cut back from 155th Street, Manhattan to a new terminal at Sedgwick Avenue in The Bronx. The IRT 9th Avenue El begins a shuttle operation across the Putnam Bridge to a new station called “Sedgwick Avenue”. (Adjacent to the NYCRR station of the same name) Service on both tracks will begin on March 1. Service beyond Sedgwick Avenue to the IRT Jerome Avenue Line will begin on July 1, 1918. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Jan 6 20:00:02 2025, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for January 5, posted by irtredbirdr33 on Sun Jan 5 10:09:55 2025. And on this date in 1969, I saw an R-7/9 consist on the Lonesome Larry for the first time. My mother and I were on our way to a Saturday School play rehearsal in Brooklyn, and as out BMT standard train pulled into 6th Ave., the R-7/9 train was there, too - headed for 8th Ave. Getting one was hit-and-miss early that year - we just missed one at Lorimer St. one Saturday afternoon. |
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Re: Tuscarora Almanac for January 5 |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Jan 6 20:00:33 2025, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for January 5, posted by irtredbirdr33 on Sun Jan 5 10:09:55 2025. And on this date in 1969, I saw an R-7/9 consist on the Lonesome Larry for the first time. My mother and I were on our way to a Saturday School play rehearsal in Brooklyn, and as our BMT standard train pulled into 6th Ave., the R-7/9 train was there, too - headed for 8th Ave. Getting one was hit-and-miss early that year - we just missed one at Lorimer St. one Saturday afternoon. |
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Re: Tuscarora Almanac for January 5 |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Jan 6 20:01:09 2025, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for January 5, posted by irtredbirdr33 on Sun Jan 5 10:09:55 2025. And on this date in 1969, I saw an R-7/9 consist on the Lonesome Larry for the first time. My mother and I were on our way to a Saturday School play rehearsal in Brooklyn, and as our BMT standard train pulled into 6th Ave., the R-7/9 train was there, too - headed for 8th Ave. Getting one was hit-and-miss early that year - we just missed one at Lorimer St. one Saturday afternoon. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Jan 6 20:01:46 2025, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for January 5, posted by irtredbirdr33 on Sun Jan 5 10:09:55 2025. And on this date in 1969, I saw an R-7/9 consist on the Lonesome Larry for the first time. My mother and I were on our way to a Saturday School play rehearsal in Brooklyn, and as our BMT standard train pulled into 6th Ave., the R-7/9 train was there, too - headed for 8th Ave. Getting one was hit-and-miss early that year - we just missed one at Lorimer St. one Saturday afternoon. |
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Re: Tuscarora Almanac for January 5 |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Jan 6 20:02:23 2025, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for January 5, posted by irtredbirdr33 on Sun Jan 5 10:09:55 2025. And on this date in 1969, I saw an R-7/9 consist on the Lonesome Larry for the first time. My mother and I were on our way to a Saturday School play rehearsal in Brooklyn, and as our BMT standard train pulled into 6th Ave., the R-7/9 train was there, too - headed for 8th Ave. Getting one was hit-and-miss early that year - we just missed one at Lorimer St. one Saturday afternoon. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Jan 6 20:03:06 2025, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for January 5, posted by irtredbirdr33 on Sun Jan 5 10:09:55 2025. And on this date in 1969, I saw an R-7/9 consist on the Lonesome Larry for the first time. My mother and I were on our way to a Saturday School play rehearsal in Brooklyn, and as our BMT standard train pulled into 6th Ave., the R-7/9 train was there, too - headed for 8th Ave. Getting one was hit-and-miss early that year - we just missed one at Lorimer St. one Saturday afternoon. |
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Posted by zac on Mon Jan 6 23:05:10 2025, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for January 5, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Jan 6 20:00:02 2025. As I always comment, they replaced one old train with another, even if the newest R9s were only around 30 years old at that point. It was still an old design with the incandescent bulbs, rattan seats (replaced with even worse hard plastic), noises, smells and the puff of smoke. A coat of paint made them look silly, like lipstick on a pig. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Tue Jan 7 18:45:35 2025, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for January 5, posted by zac on Mon Jan 6 23:05:10 2025. To me, they were an improvement if for no other reason than having signs up front. In retrospect, the Larry, along with the 7, are two routes that really don't need to have front signs on the trains. |
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