Makes me feel like I'm a kid again. The trains and platforms were shorter, and I remember the seats on the trains looked like corn. They had overhead fans, but I don't remember them being in use anymore.
Charles if u are in NYC area, can always visit NY Transit Museum in Brooklyn, u will see the corn-like seats and the overhead fans in their varied old train cars u can walk around in.
It's amazing for me just to remember that these old trains transported many of the kids from my old high school in the Bronx to school and back home, Monday through Friday for four years!!! Luckily the trains service was not terminated until the year after we all graduated!!!! I always amazed me how fast all the kids totally disappeared after that <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="180">3:00</a> pm bell sounded!!! Wow!!!!
Let me tell you how did all the extra elevated lines came down because of Governor LaGuardia and the president Robert mosses could not stand for no extra elevated lines being running today those two evil bastards could not stand no extra elevated lines being the way it is now. That has nothing to do with lower riderships hell no. Look up on your Google type in LaGuardia the manager and Robert mosses that's the reason why people are not leaving there cars home 🏠. I'm telling you. That's how. They are definitely telling the gospel truth. Those two people were the real reason why they wanted these extra elevated lines to come down they could not stand no extra elevated lines with out a passion. That's the reason why the R62AS has those 8 signs and the 9 8 11 12 13 rolling signs on the R62AS Look at the higher numbers on the R62AS very very carefully.
it's very sad to see 195 + Kilometers of track and 113 stations closed between 1954-1961. Now all there is left is in the Bronx and Queens. it is estimated 2,500- 7,500 jobs or More were lost due to this huge mistake. all of this is now gone and 98% of the lines were converted into cars and other means of road transport. the lines were converted into scrap metal then reused . ever since 1961 No EL lines (except for a Tiny part on the Tip) remain. what was once a huge and Bustling Lines now in Waste.
I've lived on 2nd Ave near 86 St for 40 years so I'm pretty familiar with the view travelling north on 3rd Avenue. At appx 66th Street there's a terraced high rise that looks similar to a building currently at that location and I'm pretty sure I recognize the next building which is still standing at the corner of 67 Street...OTHER THAN THAT, *EVERY* BUILDING BETWEEN 42nd STREET AND THAT HIGH-RISE IS GONE, all replaced by office or apartment towers! I have a couple of 8mm films I shot looking out of subway front windows I really should post one of these days.
Exactly 💯% right on that . They was dum enough to tair it down. Robert mosses forced the TA to tair down the extra elevated lines down. They was very very disappointed of tairing down this 3rd Avenue Elevated line down which that helped out the 2 5 trains and the BX 15A /29 buses and the 4 5 6 lines and the Metro North railroad trains. They are still processing about this 3rd Avenue Elevated line be tairing down and they want this line to come back really really badly. South Bronx is definitely suffering without the 3rd Avenue Elevated line. All they had to do is to do a complete over hual inspections and check the track frames trestles and beams and the stations and put a concrete floor s on the stations on the 3rd Avenue Elevated line to replace all the wooding floors . If they was smart enough they would of left the 3rd Avenue Elevated line alone. They could of got rid of the old ties and just leave the whole entire Elevated line half of it .
Bronx Third Ave El The first half of the Uptown movie/video (The Uptown Express) is very good, not as good and clear as the Vincent Seyfried 3rd Ave El movie. There are a few 1940's scenes going through the film to the 3rd Ave El on the White Plains Road Line. After that, it goes to the IRT 180th St West Farms and the quick scenes begin. The second half is filled with varying good to bad quality two-three second snippets skipping from location to location. The last sections appear to be mid 60's 3rd Ave El LoV trains in many locations ending in the final year of operation.
By the time they shut down the 3rd Av El, they could've been running R-12s and R-14s on the line, instead they ran the old Low V IRT trains which looked antiquated.
Third and second avenues were all so human scale and charming, it was like an extended east village. Shame what could have been. It would have been just as charming as the upper west side is today. Now it's soulless, a concrete mess, full of bland towers with absolutely no character. A shame.
I find the upper west side depressing, not charming. That said, you’re correct re the soulless character of much of 1st, 2nd and 3rd Avenues. Blame the architecture schools. I taught math to architecture students at Cooper Union for 10 years and I saw what they were exposed to …
@jessewolf7649 From an architectural standpoint, I disagree. UWS is also more human scale with small commercial spaces, restaurants, cafee shops etc. It feels more intimate. The side streets are even better. Overall it has more charm than the UES for me.
