A day to remember....



Photo by: Ed Yung

Memory eternal.

Here's the ironic thing.

On August 18, 2007, I caught a glimpse of history in the remake. Resulting from the Deutsche Bank Tower Fire, Smoke, once again, filled the Lower Manhattan skyline where the smoke filled the air on 9-11-01...




Zach

From the roof of my apartment building at 89th and B'way


From 1999. Scan of a color slide. Walking from the Brooklyn side to Manhattan is a fantastic way to spend a few hours. Go to Grimaldi's Pizza underneath the bridge in Brooklyn first. You're also not far from the NY Transit Museum if you've never been (not exactly breaking news to most of you reading this).


Is there a better railroad bridge? And I'm not talking about the Triboro ( or its 4 million dollar new name)

89 and brdwy.am over there every weekend taking my kids to school.nice pics

Yes, a day to remember....













911

Nice, guys, REAL nice...

Northbound CTA Red Line Train departs Belmont station for Howard.
February 6, 2009



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NJ Transit RiverLINE car, southbound, approaching the Cinnaminson station,
July 2, 2008




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Valley Railroad 80-Ton GE diesel runs around the Essex Clipper Dinner Train
at Essex station. September 5, 2009.




Enjoy,
Lee

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Originally posted by CCrider:
89 and brdwy.am over there every weekend taking my kids to school.nice pics

I live in the 'burbs now. There's much to miss about that neighborhood, but now I've got a basement for my trains.

School every weekend? CC, you're quite the task master

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Originally posted by Lee Carlson:
Northbound CTA Red Line Train departs Belmont station for Howard.
February 6, 2009



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NJ Transit RiverLINE car, southbound, approaching the Cinnaminson station,
July 2, 2008



Wonderful photographs, Lee.

Thanks!



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Valley Railroad 80-Ton GE diesel runs around the Essex Clipper Dinner Train
at Essex station. September 5, 2009.




Enjoy,
Lee

Took my grandson to the transit museum today He had a ball













Please note I took the pictures and I they are not copyrighted I like to share stuff

LMAO you not gonna let that one go huh? Still, its great to see something like this, especially after yesterday. Thats how I got into trains. My grandmother took me to the museum during the jubilee in 1977. That was one of my favorite memories

Hey Ben,

I've got a granddaughter about his age who loves trains and lives on Long Island! Let me know if he's available... Can't post a photo however, They're all copyrighted.

Elliot

Ben, you are one lucky man, sure would be nice to share the whole subway trains experience with some little guy or gal relatives for whom every day out with Dad or Uncle or Grandpa is a great adventure!!! Can't wait til its my turn.

But, please tell me you continued the treats by heading a little further south on Court Street down to Sam's for a large pie, or some chicken parm w/fries, or whatever??? It's been a favorite of ours since we were old enough to wander our Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill neighborhoods without parentals, and then as teens, after each basement band practice down on Wyckoff and Bond. I still have to drop in to see Louie and sometimes Dad Mario every time I'm back in the old 'hood.

So, did you load up on any other downtown Brooklyn treats besides the museum (which, I know, is pretty darn good)?

quote:

Originally posted by Pelham Express:
LMAO you not gonna let that one go huh?

An empty barrel makes the most noise.

Going to pick up yet another order of autoracks (that snuck in without anyone knowing they were on the way*), I stopped at a computer show at Lehman College. While crossing over the adjacent Concourse Yard, I spotted something out of the ordinary...


I'll just leave this here and let someone else ID it for a change

---PCJ

*Ye gods...I got thirty-eight of those monsters now.

quote:

Originally posted by Lee Carlson:

quote:

Originally posted by Pelham Express:
LMAO you not gonna let that one go huh?

An empty barrel makes the most noise.

You see that is a very funny statement. If it wasn't so ironic it wouldn't be. I seem to remember the one that made the most noise was some moron complaining about a few pictures. I call them empty suits.

Elliot
That would be a match made in heaven. I will tell him he has her grandfathers permission to date

Pelham
I hope someday my grandson will be as impressed as you were when your grandmother took you there. It was a great day.

Steve
We were all over today. Took the R into Manhattan to pay our respects at the WTC site. Visited 34 and 6th to see the guys I used to work with on signals. Then the F back to Brooklyn. Picked up the car and lunch was at DeFontes sandwich shop on Columbia street.

Speaking of the "F" line...


11/01/08, I spotted VakTrak at 2nd Ave. It was having, um..."mechanical difficulties".

---PCJ, resisting the urge to make a reference to something sucking

Patrick
I don't think that thing ever left the yard without having mechanical problems.

quote:

Originally posted by RailRide:
Going to pick up yet another order of autoracks (that snuck in without anyone knowing they were on the way*), I stopped at a computer show at Lehman College. While crossing over the adjacent Concourse Yard, I spotted something out of the ordinary...


I'll just leave this here and let someone else ID it for a change

---PCJ

*Ye gods...I got thirty-eight of those monsters now.

IS THAT THE R-110A I SEE???

I would say that it is. BTW did u notice the 2 car set of slants in the pic? Blueline, Im sure your grandson will remember that day.

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Originally posted by bluelinec4:
Elliot
That would be a match made in heaven. I will tell him he has her grandfathers permission to date

Pelham
I hope someday my grandson will be as impressed as you were when your grandmother took you there. It was a great day.

Steve
We were all over today. Took the R into Manhattan to pay our respects at the WTC site. Visited 34 and 6th to see the guys I used to work with on signals. Then the F back to Brooklyn. Picked up the car and lunch was at DeFontes sandwich shop on Columbia street.

EXCELLENT!!! You REALLY made a full day of it. In all the times I've been up and over and under the surrounding neighborhoods (including the Red Hook projects), I still haven't gotten to DeFontes, so that's my mission next time I go.

quote:

Originally posted by bluelinec4:

We were all over today. Took the R into Manhattan to pay our respects at the WTC site. Visited 34 and 6th to see the guys I used to work with on signals. Then the F back to Brooklyn. Picked up the car and lunch was at DeFontes sandwich shop on Columbia street.

blueline c4

Thanks for sharing your trip with your grandson. I remember also some of the wonderful boat trips in the harbor with my grandfather when I was a child. These memories last forever!

Prairie

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Originally posted by Gladstone Exp:

IS THAT THE R-110A I SEE???

Yes indeed. The other set is on the other side of the bridge, next to the connecting ramp to the #4 line. Unusually clean too (aside from faded MTA logos).

Non-operational, as far as I can tell--there were adapter couplers on the end I could see.

---PCJ

quote:

Originally posted by Pelham Express:
I would say that it is. BTW did u notice the 2 car set of slants in the pic?

Those seem to have taken the place of the pair of R30's that were in their place as some sort of office. Dunno where the R30's went.

---PCJ

nice pics BEN.
nice graff pic PINBALL.