⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ NYC Subway Front Window View - The Rockaway Shuttle from Far Rockaway to Rockaway Park and Back 

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I grew up in NYC and never got to Rockaway or Far Rockaway so this is a treat for me!

Being born and raised in Far Rockaway has me appreciate the content you bring and the memories I still have of that place.

@@haroldlaetsch9848 I am so glad to see that there are people like you and me that are just crazy for the trains. I graduated from school in Roslyn, on the North Shore of Long Island in 1966, so perhaps we may be of similar age. Beginning in 7th grade, I would skip school, take the LIRR into Jamaica or Penn Station and ride the trains all day. My goal was to ride through every station in the system but I never made it to the Rockaways. This fabulous bunch of videos has enabled me to do this right from my desk. Because I live in Ecuador and am disabled, this is an unbridled joy and I will actively look for the right person to thank who has made my life a little brighter. I wish you good luck and happy train riding.

I think in those days at night A trains went to Lefferts Blvd. only. The round robin shuttle went from Euclid Ave. to the Rockaways I'm not sure which branch it went to first.

Yes, this is quite far away from the city center.

And people actually surf at these beaches - nothing like what you've got though.

Yes I also lived in Rockaway and know where you are talking about... The Pre-Sandy days :) I now live in mid Georgia....... I really miss the Beach.. :)

5argeTech /\ Regarding Sandy, one of my aunts lives in Breezy Point two blocks away from where the huge fire was. Her house survived somehow, though I think she lost her car.

@@1995hoo One of my Moms best friends lost her House on Beach 133rd st. Your Aunt was very fortunate! Hope she is Okay Now in 2019 :)

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It nice to see units going through there since they are usually not used much.

@@TheAnunnaki-NYC At one time the Rockaways were served on late nights by a shuttle train from Euclid Ave. that ran to Rockaway Park and then to Far Rockaway using the south leg of the wye. It was also heavily used from 1950-1955 when the LIRR still ran trains there after the May 1950 trestle fire that preceded the sale of the line to the NYCTA in 1952 and its conversion and connection to the A line via the outer end of the Fulton St. elevated line in 1956. After the fire all trains ran the long way through Valley Stream until October 1955 when LIRR service to Rockaway Beach ended forever.

Mine as well

DP BL NYC in the 80s dummy

DP BL Lol. You're thinking of 1970s NYC.

The description says this was taken in May, 2019 … which is before the pandemic. I’m impressed at the overall cleanliness of the stations.

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@People Evil lol

Stillwell Ave. In Coney Island.

@@arch718 I thought only the b train went to Coney Island

quan Brooklyn kid Technically the B train stops at Brighton Beach next to Coney Island. The D,F,N, and Q trains all run to Coney Island/Stillwell

BNforever2009 Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island! Nathan's right across the street. 😊

Yep!!

'Tis the right time to restore this Round Robin service in the Rockaways.

That was only going from uptown and back uptown. This route is just back and forth from and to the Rockaways.

@@DJHammersTrains As I remember the "Round Robin Service", it was run during the overnight hours. The train would go from Rockaway Park to Far Rockaway, then back to the Hammels Wye and then all the way to Euclid Avenue. It was awful and was dropped after a short time. I believe that's when they came up with the Rockaway Park/Broad Channel Shuttle, connecting with the through trains from Far Rockaway (version of the LIRR's "Change At Ozone Park").

@@cats0182 Yea it's the A train to Far Rockaway, Rockaway Park, Ozone Park, 3 different a trains going to different parts of Queens

On its way to JFK airport

LoL. But to be fair, this is just a local commuter subway/metro train. If you want to ride on a fast train, take the LIRR or Metro North -- more comfortable, faster, less frequent stops, and (of course) more expensive (more like what you'd call a "real" train).

LIRR is also a commuter train

@Ali Muhammad Oh, I would't say that. If you live in NYC, you're never more than a few blocks from a station. And it's incredibly easy to get around the city by train. Just don't ride during rush hour is all...

Same, but I do it because I have the attention span of a gnat.

@Ali Muhammad do you expect a 55 year old subway car to be really fast? That is the subway car he recorded on which is r32

Those old cars often had that noise coming out of the PA system . Note it isn’t always there. My guess is that they powered the PA directly from the car’s DC power, with little or no filtering, and in those places where there was some AC waveform superimposed over the DC, it leaked through to the speakers.

Ps Your public skycrapers looks worse (its my opinion)

Trump made his fortune off buildings similar to those.

That's how everyone was building public housing back then. In America a lot of it has been knocked down though.

@@ericjamieson Some are "MItchell-Lama" , not quite public housing.

eh, you find those everywhere. In the previously communist countries they are just especially abundant, since the need for new housing was especially high due to forced industrialization (after all you need a working class for the "rule of the working class", and most communist countries were (mostly) agricultural countries before they got socialist governments, with only very few (or any) industrialized centers). That even applied to the Soviet Union, which only had very few industrialized centers before the "revolution". You find such buildings in Munich (e.g. northern Au, around Dachauer Str) and Melbourne/AUS (almost each suburb has a few of those). These kinds of buildings were a cheap and quick way to build new housing, and the concrete design was somewhat "in" in the 60s and 70s. They still use that model for building, it is just not that obviously shaped any more...

Depends on the person and if they know where the LIRR station is but for me its a 5 minute walk between both stations.

It's about a 5 minute walk. You exit the station and turn left on Mott, then right at the next corner on Redfern. Go past Village Lane on the left (new street built between the new apartment buildings that have gone up over the last couple of years), past Dix Avenue on the left, past Birdsall Avenue on the left, then a right on Nameoke and the LIRR terminus is on the right. They took down the old station building and now there are just ticketing machines. Vestiges of the old connection to what is now the subway line are gone.

Is there a.... Arverne by the Sea?

Cats01 I recall the Green Line bus used to run between Riis Park and Far Rockaway. The stop at Riis Park was at what people there still often call "the circle"-just west of the Marine Parkway Bridge but east of Roxbury and Fort Tilden. I think the Green Line was bought out by the MTA. It was a really slow bus service. A shuttle train is bound to be faster.

Cats01 Yes, it’s the Q22 bus

The Q22 is super unreliable due to congestion at the bridge.

I want to see the C go to Lefferts, A trains alternating Far Rockaway and Rockaway Park, and no more of this shuttle nonsense.

Keeps it simple for those going to the airport: ALL A trains serve JFK stop.

@Ali Muhammad oh man- that's so frustrating! Last thing you wanna deal with after a day of work too. Recently, riders can't rely on one type of equipment being their train either, with R46s on the C, R32s on the A, R179s on both lines now, and even a R68 run on the A which can easily be confused as a D train in Upper Manhattan. Let the Rider Beware- their job has become our job, man. And ain't it the truth...

@Ali Muhammad Ain't gonna happen. It's fate was sealed in May, 1950 when the old trestle caught fire and service was stopped.

Funny enough, today I saw an R32 C train with the destination signs set to 207th St and Lefferts Blvd, presumably from the consist being relocated from A service. A lot of turnover these days with all the new R179s going into service (now that they can finally function more reliably lol).

Beach shuttle, for those wishing to go to or from Far Rockaway to Rockaway Park and not those wishing to leave the peninsula. Wayyyy back (100+ year ago) you could catch a single seat ride from Rockaway Park to Pt Lookout, a ghost station on the Long Beach line, steam powered trains days.

I know in some of their other videos it was a GoPro

That’s a guard rail that doubles as a secondary traction return rail

6 months or so.

@@TheRailLeaguer yeah i heard it was at least that long.. Must have been tough on residents of broad channel and the rockaways..

@@purplesword5536 Agreed.

S means Shuttle. There is also the Franklin Avenue shuttle in Brooklyn.

They’re using 10-car trains.

Joseph Leogrande The center tracks along the Rockaway flats can’t be used. One has been decommissioned and the other has been de-energized.

David Thaler they can re energize the tracks by installing new cables and fuses

Joseph Leogrande Doubt they would do that because of the expense. Also, the center tracks aren’t adjacent to any platforms along the route, which means switching the train between the center and far tracks.

David Thaler the center tracks can be used for skip stop service designated as the K train which runs rush hours only Same concept as the Z train

Ali Muhammad it would be great a seasonal train service for people coming off the LIRR going to rockaway beach So the H service can be summer service only and suspended after summer ends until the next year when summer begins Similar to certain bee line bus routes in westchester which are suspended until summer season which is service to rye playland Similar theory

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The Q22 is an unreliable option due to congestion at Beach 90th Street, something recent changes have tried to implement. The subway is far more reliable for this case.

He already did a run on The A Train, Tho I'm Pretty Sure He Has Not Done The C Train

I dont think the C has any trains with RFWs

@@goose3303 yes they do

The conductor telling the operator its safe to move train and passenger are on the subway train

Rodney.gils.

Nah, tbh C to Ozone Park is better, the shuttle is fine

BenTheMiner - Transit & Games nah c should go to ozone park and the H should go to rockaway park

That's rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Service to the Rockaways has been lousy since the day it opened. From what I can gather it still is lousy. The current routing is a nightmare of time and distance. Chances of reopening the LIRR line from Aqueduct to Ozone Park and then to the LIRR mainline through White Pot Junction are non-existent. You will never have enough business to justify separate trains on the full run to Manhattan, except during rush hours from Rockaway Park; it just ain't gonna happen. The best you could do would be to keep the Broad Channel Shuttle, have the through train make all stops beyond that until it gets to the old Fulton Street El. Then run the train non-stop to Euclid Avenue. Then run the train making express stops only to Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street. Then run the train on the regular route to Manhattan. Eliminating stops on the Fulton Street El and making only express stops after Euclid Avenue might buy some time. The original LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch is dead, for whatever reason.

@@AzAzMusic I just said that...

Could never understand why the A trains run on a split schedule going to either Lefferts Blvd and Far Rockaway. The waiting time going to both terminals is horrible because of this. What would make sense to me is to extend the C trains to Lefferts Blvd and have the A trains go to Far Rockaway only!

They usually provide free bus service, yes. There's also normal bus service.

You mean with less blk ppl?

Or how about helping the people that already live there instead of making it a neighborhood that the locals can’t afford anymore?

Part of the subway system. Just the way we refer to it. Of course, this part is elevated, Not all of the London Underground is underground 😀