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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: Sun Apr 28, 2024 1:55 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
95th Street/Fort Hamilton (BMT).............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?4813

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1145

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1146

https://www.nycsubwa ...
  Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 136
Views: 2824

PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 1:49 pm   Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses
As the days dwindle down to a precious few.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153797

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153788

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153792

(courte ...
  Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 136
Views: 2824

PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 1:44 pm   Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses
The air conditioned fishbowl is a Flxible in the 4000 series, the last Flxibles painted green!

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?158291

Thanks for this info; MUCH appreciated! Wink

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

Replies: 19
Views: 685

PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:34 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
These historic (and magnificent!) "Eye-Are-Tee" signs reflect the long-ago era where "subway artwork" was indeed "ARTWORK" (not all of this "artsy-fartsy", ofte ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 19
Views: 685

PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:31 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
"GRAND AVENUE"...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?97212

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?97221

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["EXIT TO STREET"]
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 19
Views: 685

PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:18 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
Note the unusual (and stylish) "EUCLID" displayed on the columns of said station; this, indeed, would have seemed quite "modern", back in 1948.

Could the new SAS stations have f ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 19
Views: 685

PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:02 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
Regarding "Eye-En-Dee" tilework/station design, etc.........

Recall, Euclid Avenue (1948) indeed was the hallmark of the IND, with its modern, sleek florescent lighting.

The station wa ...
  Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 136
Views: 2824

PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:51 am   Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses
Indeed, the (premature) "end of the line".......... Sad

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153835

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153794

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153 ...
  Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 136
Views: 2824

PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:43 am   Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses
W.B.:

Great post (and info) as always.

Seeing buses that were only on the streets for a little more than a decade scrapped is beyond wasteful, especially when Your's Truly can clearly recall 25- ...
  Topic: Israel's only subway (Haifa)/Overseas subways/Metros
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 23
Views: 2856

PostForum: General Transportation - All Other Modes   Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:58 am   Subject: Israel's only subway (Haifa)/Overseas subways/Metros
Interesting that 10 of the 12 lines of the Mexico City Metro utilize rubber-tired trainsets, as is also commonplace in Paris and in Montreal.

Here is yet another metro/subway system with an interes ...
  Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 136
Views: 2824

PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:45 am   Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses
Has anyone else noticed (regarding the former "bus repository" between the BMT ramps at Fresh Pond Road) that the buses, in every photo, are parked facing OUT from the narrowest part of the ...
  Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 136
Views: 2824

PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:30 am   Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses
These two dismal depressing photos depict prewar "Eye-En-Dee" cars being scrapped at 207th Street and CIY*.......... Crying or Very sad

(note the straps and number plates left intact as the cars were ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 19
Views: 685

PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:21 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
"8TH AVENUE" (BMT Canarsie line)

(note new Vickers frieze in two photos)...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1463

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1464 (IND styling, f ...
  Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 136
Views: 2824

PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:13 am   Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses
Twenty-four years separate these IRT signs at 23rd Street and Main Street (Flushing)............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?540

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?37

(courtesy: nycs ...
  Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 136
Views: 2824

PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:06 am   Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses
"BROADWAY NASSAU" (today's "FULTON STREET"), IND.

The contours of the platform area eerily recall a typical London Underground deep-level tube station..........

https://www.n ...
 
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