OK it maybe me but in my one and only subway set "For now" The red LO-V set the announcements go right through me. If I turn down the guy speaking it also turns down the other accent sounds.

I have even been thinking about changing the sound file with another.

Odd about all those subway annoucements. I rode the New York City subways quite a bit from 1951 until I moved to Philadelphia in 1965. Never were there any annoucnements on IRT LoV's (or on the BMT standard or IND trains either, for that matter), as there were no on-board public address systems.

If you boarded mid-train where the trainman or conductor was operating the door controls (somtimes standing between the cars and leaning out to the platform), you might hear him sometimes yell "WATCH Duh DAWS!" as they were being closed.

Until they put in mechanical, extending platform grates at South Ferry on the IRT for the new red cars, the conductor came through a train of Lo-V's to lock each center door with a key. With the train leaning on that tight loop track, there was still a big gap by the open end doors. "STEP! WATCH YUH STEP!" was called out by the conductor and sometimes by the motorman as well, as he looked back from his open door.

PA subway car station annoucements came in with the late 1950's new red IRT cars from St. Louis Car Co. The sound was usually static-laden and intermittant. Station names called were said fast (if they called at all) in a strong Brooklyn or Bronx accent.

Another set of IRT cars with PA annoucements I remember were two sets of white cars used as Times Square - Grand Central Shuttles. These trains were controlled
by computer. I think the computer-voice call was "The doors are closing, the train is ready to depart." Sort of spooky to ride it back then. Now, large airports use an updated version of that system for their inter-terminal trams. The computer voices sound more pleasant as well.

Just when did NYCTA put the annoucement system on the subway cars? My guess, it was to accomodate the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. Buses were supposed to have it after that as well.

Ed Bommer

I like all the sounds but that one guy's voice is annoying.

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Just when did NYCTA put the annoucement system on the subway cars? My guess, it was to accomodate the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. Buses were supposed to have it after that as well.

I remember the subway having PA announcements when I was a kid in the '70s - although it was a pretty common joke because you could never understand any of them!

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Originally posted by trainman311:
I like all the sounds but that one guy's voice is annoying.

Smile when you say that... the recorded voice(s) on the MTH subways belong to some of our own OGR forum members who shall remain nameless, unless they choose to chime in here.

Elliot

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Smile when you say that... the recorded voice(s) on the MTH subways belong to some of our own OGR forum members who shall remain nameless, unless they choose to chime in here.

I didn't mean to offend the person making the recording just have the voice toned down a little; but then again my ears are sensitive to certain pitches.

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Do some of the announcement sounds make you nuts?

No, I like the sounds from the two MTH sets I own, although on one when I hear the guy in the backround bark out about hotdogs I get a craving for a Leo's tube steak. If I choose to not hear the annoucements ect. I just turn down the volume (Usually due to my wife not liking all the noise).