I haven't ridden this in about 50 years. I can't believe the B&O color-position signals are still up. The New Dorp Lane grade crossing is long gone, alas. When I was growing up in Borough Park, Brooklyn, on a summer night with my windows open, if the wind was blowing just the right way, I could hear the faint wailing of train horns signalling for it so many miles away. Now I'm living in suburban Philly and get awakened many mornings by SEPTA trains bellowing for Rydal Road at 06:30.
Very nice video. How did they let you put your camera right ridge just outside the train? How is the camera mounted, as it appears very secure and the images are steady and not jerky due to the track vibration?
I've noticed that at that time stations were a skipped due to track maintenance, however I've noticed people waiting at each station ,as if nobody knows this these stations are not picking up anyone there. Like why doesn't anybody body either place a sign indicating no service is available or have someone by the turnstiles let people know of this change. It's kind of cruel to have people waiting for a train that isn't coming, after all people are going to work or are trying to get home and are left there. HOW CRUEL.
Everything that you said is all 100% true. They do close off the non operated side but since it was already the last train to go express i assumed they opened up both sides and people went on both sides confused. Luckily that day the conductor and train operater communicated to open on both sides and everyone was able to board!
Is Park Place the only station in the system without a starting signal? Clearly it doesn't need one since if a train is north of the double-track zone, it has the whole segment to itself.
OH man, l miss riding the R1-9s and theR-32s over the racetrack back in the day, if you got the railfan window you would truly be in for an experience!!!!!!!
Does St. George Terminal really need that many platforms? Maybe they can all be replaced by one wide island platform and the line can curve west and RCB Ballpark could be restored. That way, St. George can become a through-station rather than being separated with a wye like Hoboken on PATH. This is because the line could continue north of the island as it used to go there.
The Ballpark Station is literally 200 feet west of St. George Terminal and was a complete waste. Fully 95% of SI train and bus riders go through St. George. The old North Shore line is dead and ripped up in many spots and ain’t never coming back. Any $$ should go to new trains, buses and station improvements for the current MTA properties.
@@edwardp3502 Yeah, maybe you’re right. I was outraged when certain station renovations, such as the ESI lacked accessibility upgrades. I guess restoring any abandoned line, such as the Rockaway Beach Branch can wait.
I quickly placed it at the tip of the floor thats outside of the train at the terminal before the train operator got into the cab that way i dont get questioned haha
@@edwardp3502 I was onboard the train that day and when it got to tottenville I just waited for the operator and conductor to leave. She actually noticed it and was laughing about it with the conductor about what a camera is doing there Lol. They then left down the ramp exiting the station and then I simply retrieved it.
I just went to 86 street, the stop before the terminal, and i quickly placed the camera at the tip of the floor using a grabber tool. not a train opersator haha BUT possibly in the future maybe
The center express track on the Astoria line has been unused in regular service since 2002 due to low demand. However, if the line ever gets extended to LaGuardia Airport, it may become a weekday peak-direction express track as ridership may increase to and from the airport.
There was a short lived super express called the NX that ran from 57st to brighton beach via the sea beach line. it ran from Nov 27 1967 until spring 1968. it ran peak direction rush hour only with R27 cars. discontinued due to lack of patronage.
@@jaymorgenthal9479 Cars have been bought and paid for already. MTA can tap into the hundreds of millions of dollars it takes in from Verrazzano Bridge and other tolls to keep them running.
One trivia point: the Tottenville depot is the southern most railway terminus in New York State because Tottenville is the southern most point in New York State. You can't go any further south without going into the drink.
One thing from my kid days was the SIRT trains used to be only 3 cars. This was up to at least the 1980's. Then all the stations had to be extended to fit five cars. Great Kills, for example, used to end where the foot bridge crosses over the tracks at the south end. The Bay Terrace platform used to end where the electric switch boxes are, also at the south end. That station used to have a weird configuration where the stairs went down at the end of the platform and there was a path between the two tracks so you'd be walking along side the train as both you and the train left the station. Now that's all part of the raised platform. Also, up to the late 70s, when I was attending Tottenville High School, the Princes Bay station was still made of wood.
Princes Bay also had stairs on the Tottenville bound side at Waterbury Ave. Also a waiting room on St. George bound side that was boarded up as long as I remembered it Pleasant plains also had the wood platforms.
Before the opening of the new BMT line between DeKalb and Prospect park in 1920 the Franklyn ave line was 2 tracks all the way to Fulton st where it connected to the Fulton st el. when the new bmt subway took over the Brighton line the connection at fulton st was severed and Franklyn ave became the last stop with just the southbound track. the northbound track had a wooden platform placed over after the rails were removed.
I ride the n to take it out 2 queens 2 meet the 7 to go to 61rst and i love the stretch of track between 59th and lex to queensboro plaza where the train goes so fast and swaying side 2 side that it gives u the train is gonna hop the track vibes. 😆 (not that i wish that but it still does). Its awesome.
