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From what I've read, that subway entrance (where the RTS was in the background) was at Columbus Circle; as I had stated earlier, you can see an "IRT 7th Avenue" sign over the stairway going ...

See the following:

https://www.movie-locations.com/movies/c/Crocodile-Dundee.php

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W.B.:

Thanks for the info.

I'm almost certain that this sequence was filmed in Manhattan, so your information on this bus running on Manhattan routes would be indeed valid.

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W.B.:

Great photos/links; thanks for posting here.

OK, so now, with the gap fillers at the TSQ end of the shuttle gone, this would translate into the only station still utilizing them would be 1 ...

W.B.:

Any idea which depot RTS "#PA2383" was based out of, at the time of "Crocodile Dundee"?

Any clue as to the route(s) it then operated on?

Appreciate info, as always.. ...

"MIND THE GAP"............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?74

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?80813

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?74873

https://www.nycsubway.org/pe ...

W.B.:

Again, excellent information and stats; again, this subject is one I am sure that even many "serious" enthusiasts are not aware of.

Gap fillers......

I know the old South Ferr ...

Came across this picture of said "Torpedo"............

www.imcdb.org/vehicle_908168-GMC-RTS-1981.html

(courtesy: imcdb.org)

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W.B.:

During the last several minutes of the film, we see "Crocodile" about to enter the subway; in the background, we see "Torpedo" #PA2383 pull up (offside view).

Odd that ...

Also worth noting (from the same book).........

".......the new postwar IRT cars were assigned solely to the Flushing line, and not to the basic Manhattan routes of the old Interborough, becau ...

W.B.:

FASCINATING historical information, and something that even many serious enthusiasts are not aware of.

Many of us (Your's Truly included) tend to think of platforms as either simply being ...

W.B.:

See.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?7539

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?7540

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?6415

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?108593 ...

W.B.:

That station in "CROCODILE DUNDEE" was none other than the abandoned "Bee-Em-Tee" 9th Avenue (lower level) station; indeed, yet another abandoned station where the adventu ...

Here is an excellent illustrated page on the "U-BAHN's" rolling stock through the decades; thankfully, a number of historic trains are still in operating condition......... Wink

https: ...

Berlin's extensive "U-BAHN" opened in 1902; the original, small rolling stock were similar to the original cars used in Paris (a train of these restored cars is preserved today; see picture ...