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W.B.:

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So, then, what transpired last evening with the "Rattlers" on "The Isle of Staten"?

Thanks.........

"NYO"

['SIR"}

[W.B. Fishbowl]

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W.B.:

Thanks; kind of surprised (to be totally honest) that the "Rattlers" performed as well as they did, given the wintry "soicomstances")........

'NYO"

["GREAT KILLS"]

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.....still wondering WHY the "Em-Tee-Yay" never built at least a modest SIR train storage Yard at St. George; after the old B&O freight yards disappeared, there indeed was enough room for a storage yard at this location..........

"NYO"

["ARLINGTON"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

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W.B.:

"Double fare".........

Recall, many eons ago, the "double fare" utilized on the IND Rockaway line?

What the "Em-Tee-Yay" SHOULD have done was to build a small yard (for off-hour layups) ay St. George, on the site of the old B&O yards.

Alas, we BOTH know that simple "common sense" has LONG been in VERY short supply with the agency..............

"NYO"

["SIR:]

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Now.................

Imagine this area "reclaimed" by the "Em-Tee-Yay" for an "Es-Eye-Are" storage yard at St. George.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?45576

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?45580

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["RIDE THE RAPID"]

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St. George, 1970 (looking west)...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1847

(courtesy: nycsybway,org)

Here we have the Rube Goldberg-ish "R-44" clearance test train, already on the job.

Until 1953, trains of SIRT's North Shore line to Arlington used these rails.

Note Old Look on the left, headed west.

Again, note the sizeable area that, in later years, could have been the location of a new SIR yard...........

"NYO"

["STATEN ISLAND"]

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On this day in 1969.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?132586

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2780

(courtesy: nycsubway.org

["A.C.F."]

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On this day:

(1946):

1:

IND Fulton line extended one stop to Broadway-Nassau

2:

(1964)

Last 4 R-32 "Brightliners"(w/"Pioneer" trucks) arrive on NYCTA property

3:

(1968)

First "M-1s" enter service on the LIRR

4:

(1987)

Last "R-21/'22"cars are retired (these cars were operating on the #5)

'NYO"

["BoT"]

["NYCTA"]

["LIRR"]

["M"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

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Interesting..........

At the stroke of midnight (1/12/26) the new Mayor of "Noo Yawk" will be sworn in on the platform of the abandoned IRT City Hall station (an grand and dignified setting, indeed)

This, of course, caught my interest, when I first heard of this, a fewdays ago.

Could the new "Hizzoner" be a transit buff?

Wondering now if #6 trains will be terminated at Brooklyn Bridge (temporary halt in service?), or, might they be re-routed?

T'will be interesting.........

"NYO"

["CITY HALL"]

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On this day.........

1936:

IND Queens line extended to Union Turnpike

1937:

Last full day of service on the NYW&B Railway

1940

Last cars ordered by the BMT, the CLARK-built "Bluebirds", are accepted

1945:

The IRT's stately, opulent City Hall loop station is closed

1946:

The DL&W abandons ferry service between W. 23rd Street and Hoboken; the DL&W was also the last railroad to run ferries to W. 23rd St. Both the CNJ and the ERIE had eliminated ferry service to this terminal several years earlier.........

"NYO"

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