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  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 11:39 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
Here are two 1915 interior photos of "Standards"; note the extra "railfan window".

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?114184 *note also the fold-down seats; the SIRT's ME-1's w ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 11:25 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
This photo dates to 1914; here we see a train of shiny new "Standards"* at CIY *note the extra "railfan window" then standard); the once-familiar "one-eyed" look, would c ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 11:14 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
W.B.:

Curious.......

The 1960s photos where we saw "Jetsons" and "Dangerfields" under the Jamaica El: what garage would have those buses been based out of?

Were "Sher ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 9:49 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
Sharp contrasts indeed in this snowy scene showing the now-demolished "Bee-Em-Tee" elevated Jamaica line at Sutphin Boulevard, in 1961........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?6327

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  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 2:25 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
With a "cameo" by "Jetson" Fishbowl #602, this hustlin', bustlin', "Noo Yawk" street scene (160th Street, Jamaica) literally explodes with urban nostalgia! Wink

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  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 12:21 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
A few glimpses from "under da 'Toid Aven-uh' El" up in "da Bronx" (first photo is my personal fave!) Wink

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?28692

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  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 12:07 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
(SEE PREVIOUS POSTS)

Now, for a glaring contrast, compare these two views from 1967 and 1980 (Jamaica El territory).........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?160279

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  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 10:44 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
And, by 1974, a similar scenario was also then being played out elsewhere, as "stoa's" buses passed through the rows of now-redundant steel columns, which, until the previous year, had supp ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 10:36 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
"No-EL, No-EL" (Parsons & Jamaica, 1980)

Like brooding, silent sentinels from a past civilization, the remaining columns of the now-demolished Jamaica El watch the passing of Fishbowl ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 10:26 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
W.B.:

Indeed, the veteran "Arnines" saw tremendous changes in the "Noo Yawk" transit picture during their long and hard-working service years.

Recall, in 1932, the "Bee- ...
  Topic: Israel's only subway (Haifa)/Overseas subways/Metros
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PostForum: General Transportation - All Other Modes   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 12:52 am   Subject: Israel's only subway (Haifa)/Overseas subways/Metros
Here is an interesting view of the cab of one of the Moscow Metro's older cars...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?59505

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

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  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 12:23 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
Back in 1971, we have "Batwing Bullet" #8103 departing the "Bee-Em-Tee's" Rockaway Parkway station.

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154897

Indeed, #8103 contrasts sharply ...
  Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future.......
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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 12:09 am   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future.......
A few more glimpses of "PQ" ("Patchwork Quilt")-era trains, from long-ago days.......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3359

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3310

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  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 9:08 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
Rockaway Parkway station, 1972...............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154787

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155220

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

By 1972, we began to see the o ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 7:42 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
Here we have assorted "Tee-Yay" green Fishbowls gathering at Washington Plaza in 1972, with the BMT elevated line overhead............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153353 ("Je ...
 
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