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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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 Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2026 10:41 am Post subject: |
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W.B,:
When PATH built a new structure over the tunnel portals, they made dang sure that part of the new building obliterated the "H & M RR" lettering between portals was covered over. 
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21811 *
(courtesy:nycsubway.org)
*Note remains of PRR catenary on the left
In "GOTHAM TURNSTILES:"
".....PATH's paranoia over identification knows no end......"
Tell me about it.
Last vestiges of the H&M I remember were the manhole covers on the platfirms at Exchange Place (I have not been through that station in well over 20 years)...........
"NYO"
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2026 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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Further......
When PATH "celebrated" the 100th anniversary of "the tubes", the ageny truly showed just how little they cared for their history; the "celebration" was so watered-down and lackluster it was indeed an insult to the memory of illustrious Mr. McAdoo, unlike the lavish 75th anniversary bah Your's Truly was a part of, baxk in '83........
"NYO"
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2026 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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Strange.............
The "Em-Tee-Yay" preserved sets of operable "Lo-Vs"."Standards", "Triplexes", and"Arnines". but, oddly enough, did not see fit to preserve a set of "Artens".
As these iconic cars were the last in service to feature monitor roofs and to have conductor controls between the cars, IMHO, these now-iconic cars SHOULD have been preserved as a set of operable set of several cars...............
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?152078
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2361
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2026 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
Just "loined" today that the Canarsue line ("L") is now all "See-Bee-Tee-See".
Any idea of how many lines are also all "CBTC?" (I know the #7 is)
Any lines where block signals still dominate?(for now)
Is the "Gee" now also "CBTC"?
If I am not mistaken,, I believe that the IND's Queens Boulevard trunk line is noe all 'CBTC".
I shudder to think of a system meltdown, with NO backup whatsoever........aMAJOR disaster just waiting to happen,,,,,,,
"NYO"
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W.B. Fishbowl
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2026 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | W.B.:
Just "loined" today that the Canarsue line ("L") is now all "See-Bee-Tee-See".
Any idea of how many lines are also all "CBTC?" (I know the #7 is)
Any lines where block signals still dominate?(for now)
Is the "Gee" now also "CBTC"?
If I am not mistaken,, I believe that the IND's Queens Boulevard trunk line is noe all 'CBTC".
I shudder to think of a system meltdown, with NO backup whatsoever........aMAJOR disaster just waiting to happen,,,,,,,
"NYO"
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From what I've gathered, so is the Culver line. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2026 12:20 am Post subject: |
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W.B.:
Indeed, traditional block signals will soon go the way of RFWs; between CBTC and the RFW now extinct, virtually every scrap of pleasure has vanished from the subways.
I'm certainly most fortunate for all the memories I have of a "traditional" system, one that was both fascinating and intriguing, not to mention far more historic in nature.
Way back in the day, Your's Truly indeed had a valid reason to "railfan" the rails in and around "Noo Yawk"...............
"NYO"
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2026 12:06 am Post subject: |
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Another hot, humid "Noo Yawk" summer is upon us..........
Let's see if there will be more trransformer fires and CBTC failures, as the temps increase.
And, let's see if the "Are-Too-Elevens" will be experiencing heat-related issues underground..............
"NYO"
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W.B. Fishbowl
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| Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2026 6:22 am Post subject: |
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| NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | Another hot, humid "Noo Yawk" summer is upon us..........
Let's see if there will be more trransformer fires and CBTC failures, as the temps increase.
And, let's see if the "Are-Too-Elevens" will be experiencing heat-related issues underground..............
"NYO"
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Not to mention their "Staten Island Rattler" cousins . . . |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2026 9:19 am Post subject: |
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W.B.:
I think that the "Staten Islabd Rattlers" MIGHT fare batter than their subway cousins this summer, seeing that they are NOT operating underground in hot, humid tunnels (only SIRT tunnel is the short one between St. George and Tompkinsville...........wreshall see.....
"NYO"
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W.B. Fishbowl
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| Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2026 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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Another car whose side doors were "rooned" during GOH. (Along with the "modified" R-40's and the "Are-Fordy-Toos.") |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2026 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
Like all of the GOH'd cars (excluding the "Redbois") the rebuilding did not do anything for ANY of them.
Alterations, removal of standee straps, removal lof the blue stripes, totally bland interoir paint schemes......and just look at how they desecrated those once-handsome, iconic "Brightliners"......... 
"NYO"
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| Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2026 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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Heard on 1010 WINS earlier.......
Official MTA confirmation states that, on the night of the "Kann-ikker-Bpkkers" victory,t he subways were beyond the saturation point, with over3 million riders crowding the trains after midnight.
A 1010 WINS anchor stated that he was aboard a #1 train about 1 AM, and the train was "packed to the gills"........
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W.B. Fishbowl
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| NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | Heard on 1010 WINS earlier.......
Official MTA confirmation states that, on the night of the "Kann-ikker-Bpkkers" victory,t he subways were beyond the saturation point, with over3 million riders crowding the trains after midnight.
A 1010 WINS anchor stated that he was aboard a #1 train about 1 AM, and the train was "packed to the gills"........
"NYO"
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I "hoid" that. Budd Mishkin, former NY1 anchor. He also said he was the only one of the crowd who was alive for ALL their "cham-peen-ships," namely those of 1970 and 1973, plus this year. (So am I, but I'm not in broadcasting.) He must've boarded the #1 at Houston Street, a block east from the 1010 WINS studios on Hudson Street. (Sounds, transportation-wise, like the recently-retired Bill Ritter of WABC-TV.)
To put it into perspective, when the "Ka-nicker-bockers" had their two "cham-peen-ships" in 1970 and 1973, WINS was situated high up at 90 Park Avenue (between 39th and 40th Streets), and their roster was populated with such anchors as Paul Smith, Lew Fisher, Jim McGiffert, Don Baldwin, Irwin Brown, Charles Edwards, Gary Alexander, Stan (Z.) Burns, former "Crown Prince of Rock & Roll" Paul Sherman, Lee Murphy, Brad Sherman, Brad Phillips, Bob Howard, Tuck Stadler and Clarence Rock, and reporters such as Stan Brooks, Doug Edelson, Paul Parker, Allen Shaw, and the first black female reporter to be hired by any all-news station in the city, Barbara Lamont (first hired by them in 1970, two years before the late, lamented WCBS Newsradio 88 first took on Jane Tillman Irving who, today, is the far more remembered of the two). Either Ed Ingles, Spencer Ross, or both, were at WINS as of the 1970 title, but may've gone to WCBS by 1973. Both stations had teletype sound effects, WCBS's recorded in-house.
Even the TV landscape was different. As of 1973, and I checked from an old tape that someone put up, here was the roster of 'correspondents' for WCBS-TV, whose 6 P.M. newscast was anchored by Jim Jensen and its 11 P.M. edition by Rolland Smith and Dave Marash: Chris Borgen, Charles Crawford (Health & Science Editor), Leonard Harris (arts critic), Tony Fernandez (sportscaster), Frank Gardner, Alan Kasper (weatherman), Vic Miles, Dave Monsees, Ralph Penza, Trish Reilly, Lucille Rich, Lynn Sherr (before she went "network"), Joel Siegel (later a mainstay at WABC-TV), John Stossel (yes, THAT John Stossel), and Jerome Wilson (political reporter). Notice: three women. WCBS, from what I could see, straddled the fence between the "traditional" news bent as exemplified by WNBC-TV (whose 6 P.M. newscast was dead last, and anchored by Jim Hartz; and whose film critic was the recently-deceased Gene Shalit) and the "Happy Talk" presentation of WABC (whose anchor team of Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel handled both 6 and 11 in those days, and who were also backed up by the likes of the unrelated Doug and John Johnson, Roger Sharp, Geraldo Rivera, Gil Noble, Bob Lape, Milton Lewis, Bob Miller, Melba Tolliver, the sports field of Frank Gifford, Sal Marchiano, Jim Bouton - who not long after left for WCBS - and, very briefly, Dave Barry; arts critic Kevin Sanders; and weatherman Tex Antoine - Rose Ann Scamardella hadn't joined just yet at that point). |
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