I remember watching your videos when I was younger and the videos didn't have your face nor your unedited voice, these videos made me always want to go to NYC to ride the subways and made me more passionate about subway trains too. Send you a big greeting from Argentina!
The fact that you've done All Trains so many times in incredible, and you went above and beyond by calculating the costs of the cars, ferry, buses, and even the AirTrain! We appreciate your dedication to the wonderful transit community! The SSG Michael H. Ollis the SI ferry was named after was a Staten Island native who was killed at age 24 while shielding a Polish soldier from an insurgent bomber in Afghanistan in August 2013. The name Grasmere comes from the lake in England of the same name. This is because of Sir Roderick Cameron. After being knighted by Queen Victoria in June 1883, he did much traveling. It is believed that in his travels, he had visited England's Lake District of Grasmere and appropriately named his land on Staten Island, as it was reminiscent of the beautiful district. The sharp curves of the Franklin Ave Shuttle between Botanic Garden and Prospect Park is no joke! That section was home to the deadliest crash in NYC subway history called the Malbone Street wreck, as over 90 people lost their lives because a speeding train derailed in a sharply curved tunnel. This crash is what led to the BRT to phase out wooden cars. What led to this crash was a labor strike against the BRT and the BRT tried to keep service running with non-striking personnel, and decided to use Antonio Edward Luciano, a crew dispatcher with NO experience operating the line.
Oof. That's crazy. Someone commented that I actually rode the historic bit of track where the crash happened when I did All Night Trains earlier this year.
I did this in the summer of 1996 at 16 years old. My dad gave me a bunch of tokens and told me, I dont want to see you in the house this summer. Go find something to do. Gotta love NYC. 😂😂
Btw if you guys don’t know the new R211T entered service already edit : all R160 -1 all R160 -2 trains or R160A or R160B train models either runs 10 cars or 8 cars but during the weekends M trains or shuttle service or during night service they run less then 8 cars edit number 2 : M trains don’t normally go to 57 street 6 avenue but they rerouted it to there due to construction edit number 3 : f trains now run via the E line ,there is now a f shuttle train between 21st street queens bridge to Lexington 63rd street , edit. Number 4 bro did all trains but forgot about F express and seven express and six express train😮 it’s okay ,we appreciate you hard work ,thanks for the awesome video supertoe
I don’t count express trains (except Z because it’s a different label entirely) in all trains routes because 1. They interline 100% with their local counterparts and 2. Because of their limited service I haven’t figured a way to work every express train into a route without dramatically increasing the risk of failure. I only tried to work in the F express to All Brooklyn trains because the risk was minimal
The wide yard dates all the way back to the 1882 terminus of the LIRR Rockaway Beach branch which operated until 1955. The bridge over Jamaica Bay burned in 1955 and wasn't repaired until they had the idea to extend the IND to the Rockaways in the 1960s. Then full length A trains went to Rockaway Park. They established late night shuttle service almost immediately, but only went to full time shuttle service in recent years. The station is one of the least used in the system because Belle Harbor commuters use direct express buses or Green Line Buses to Flatbush Avenue on the 2-5 as a faster way into Manhattan.
Regarding the trolley thing you saw on Roosevelt Island, that was the elevator storehouse, as in the trolley/streetcar would stop above Roosevelt Island on the bridge, and then people would take an elevator down to the island! In 1918, the mayoral administration of John Hylan built a structure housing five or six elevators that brought cars, trucks and pedestrians to the then named Blackwell’s Island. In 1921, the name was changed to Welfare Island and finally Roosevelt Island in 1973. Here's the reason why an aerial tramway was built: The NY state government leased the island from the city in 1969 and opted to build large housing developments to transform it into a transit-oriented community. The plan was to build a subway station as the centerpiece but the station was delayed, so the temporary solution was to build the aerial tramway. The tramway would open in 1976, the station opened in 1989, but it was decided to keep the tramway. The tramway was the last to stop using tokens, as it still accepted tokens until March 2004 while the subway stopped doing so in 2003! During the 2005 NYC transit strike, the tramway was one of the few public transportation modes in the city that continued to operate
You try to make us laugh in any video, and even if it doesn’t seem funny, I laugh all the time when I watch any one of your videos. You try so hard to make the perfect videos for us, and no matter how good or bad the quality of the video is, we will still appreciate the time you took to make these videos for your viewers. Thank you. 🙏🏽
Buddy you are not alone. Once coming home from school we took the L train between Grand ave and Metropolitan. We ended walking the whole thing due to power outage on the L. Me or my mom and the people around us were not happy. I have been a New yorker for a long time! Lots of wierd stuff happened to me
@@SuprToe Your right it can be exhausting. I started at 9AM from my home station and ended around 6PM because I had to catch the Z during PM rush hour 😴
Alright, where to now??? BUS EDITION!!! From Rockaway Park: Q35 --> Kings Plaza, B3 --> Gerritsen Av, B31 --> Gerritsen Beach, go to the very end, very peaceful, model airplane field, and a good bagel shop. Perfect for a explore the urbans video.
29:12 The J/M/Z run 8 cars only due to all of the stations being able to stand 8 cars only this was a thing for a very LONG time back in the 60s or 50s cant remember when they made the line lol
If you pause at 4:21 you can see me with my mom and younger brother, I’m in a green coat and my brother was in a blue coat. I’ve been watching your videos since you were Mr Blue Shoes and it’s so cool to finally see you in person
Whenever I’m bored, I just ride some random trains and whenever I do I never experience any delays. Only time I got screw over by the mta in 2022 in the summer. I was on the G train that had it brakes activated at 21st in queens which resulted in the G being suspended from Court SQ to Bedford-Nostrand ave and the first car made it in to that station and I was on that car
The man thats been keeping me alive fore more than 7 years with the series, im happy i have seen you grown and hope you hit 100k soon. From a long lasting fan
I once was that little kid who pulled the cord at every bus stop. Anyone living in Seattle on the 2 bus line back in the very late 00s and early 2010s probably hates me.
29:00 The J/M/Z have always used 8 car R143s/R160s/R179s since they've had them. The M has to use them due to it running with the Jamaica line with the J/Z.
Knew i made the right choice subscribing this channel-you should go to stations with the same name and compare them to see how they vary, like the station or track/platform layout and whether they are accessible or not-think about 110th st or church av or 23rd st
I have a route with all Lines except Shuttle and SIR in the right order: Starting at WTC: 1 to Chambers Street 2 to Wall Street 3 to Borough Hall 4 to Bowling Green 5 to 14 St-Union Sq 6 to Grand Central-42 St 7 to Times Sq-42 St A to 59 St-Columbus Circle B to 72 St C to 59 St-Columbus Circle D to 7 Ave E to W 4 St-Washington Sq F to Bergen St G to Broadway J to Broadway Junction L to Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues M to 34 St-Herald Sq N to Union Sq-14 St Q to Canal St R to Whitehall-South Ferry W to City Hall Z to Broad Street Do you have a better Route?
trains suggestion!:first you should start with rockawy parkway to the a then get of at jay st to the f and go to york st then then take a 3 min walk to the park there
It’s a shame you had that big delay but at least it was the only one. You otherwise had remarkable luck in catching trains. It’s a bit of a bummer that you didn’t enter the Bronx but you at least covered the other four boroughs. It would be cool to see you tackle other types of transit such as commuter ferries. I know you took one but maybe one day you’ll get to ride them all.
It is really rare to see the r211s cars in testing because there are in Clifton menace shop where you saw the 2 split SIR cars and they might be in there or they are a st George or tottenville.
Everything that touches East New York Yard has to be 8-Cars because they never extended the platforms after unification of the system like they did with the lines going to Coney Island. Prior to the 1960's Christie St Connection which merged the BMT and IND Lines, all BMT Lines, like the Q on Brighton, D on West End and F on Culver were running with only 8-Car Trains. The Lines to Coney Island had their platforms extended because they directly linked to IND Line which ran 10 Cars of the bat.
Supertoe its me again. I have a video request. This might be hard but I think you can do it. I heard the R211T Open Gangways train is running on the C. So you can try to catch the train and take it to whatever stop you want. If you can’t do it i completely understand
I have a suggestion for pt 2 (Start at 161st yankee stadium) 4 to 149th street grand concourse 2 to Times Square S to grand central 7 to Bryant park B to 7 avenue E to 42nd port authority bus terminal 3 to Fulton street 5 to 14th street union square Q to dekalb avenue R to Atlantic avenue Barclays center D to broadway Lafayette street 6 to Brooklyn bridge J to canal street W to Times Square A to 14th street L to broadway junction C to 34th street penn station (Walk to 1 2 3 train 1 to 14th street F to broadway Lafayette street M to Essex street Z to Marcy avenue Walk to G train G to court square Walk to 39th street Dutch kills N to queens Bero plaza
Can we get an R211T video? If possible, do the empty train dance in EVERY train car you can switch to by using the open gangways until they stop at the conductor's car.
I have a suggestion: START AT 36 ST/4 AVE (D) to 42nd St-Bryant Park (7) to 74th St-Broadway (F) to Court Square (G) to Metropolitan/Lorimer (L) to 14th St-6th Ave (3) to Atlantic-Barclays Show less
random all trains route i came up with Z M G 7 L 4 6 LIRR (Far Rockaway) E R 3 1 W N B F D A C S (Franklin Av) 2 S (42 St) A R 5 S (42 St) (again) A S (Rockaway) Pick your own route! To make it harder: Catch an R211T C train Catch an A to Rockaway Park Catch an R211 A train Catch a 6 express and a 7 express Edit 1: Yes, I know I'm making you ride three A trains, but I tried to make fun challenges... Edit 2: The 3 A need to be Far Rockaway, Rockaway Park, and Lefferts Blvd. I had some challenges with making the challenges, so sorry if the route makes you a bit tired.
