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From 1960 through 1963 I commuted from Floral Park in Queens to Borough Hall in Brooklyn. For variety, I often went on different rail lines:
169th St, Jamaica to West 4th St, NYC via the IND E or F Trains, to Borough Hall, Brooklyn (Jay St) via the D Train;
169th St, Jamaica to on the BMT, and connecting to the BMT's Jay St Line;
IRT Roosevelt Ave Line from Manhattan to Flushing, and the LIRR to Port Washington.
What were the model types of subway trains I rode on these lines?


 
Location: Long Island, New York | Registered:: February 14, 2001Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Wow, with that time period and those lines, you could have ridden a huge variety of rolling stock including, but probably not limited to...

R1/9s, R10s, R16s, R27/30s on the IND/BMT
R12s, R14s, R15s, R17s, R21/22s, R26/28/29s on the IRT and quite possibly the Lo-Vs.

You may also have ridden the Standards.

Someone more familiar with that time period and exact lines may be able to narrow it down a bit, but chances are you were on all of these.




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Location: New York | Registered:: July 19, 2001Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Hi Chris

You pretty much nailed it.

Bobby made mention of the BMT line Jay St? If so, he rode the Q's.

LoV's were still in service on the Lex and rarely on the 7th Ave by 1963. I caught a LoV on the #4 in 1964. I doubt they were on the Flushing Line with the R12/14 and 15's ruling the line at that time.

Also on the LIRR most likely rode MP54's, 70's and double deckers !
 
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The Jay St Line had wooden cars as I recall.

More than once I fell asleep on the E and F trains and had a ride into the sidings east of 169th Street in Jamaica. A car cleaner or conductor would wake me up, and I had to wait in the car until the train returned to 169th Street.

I remember pot bellied stoves in the BMT elevated stations, especially the one in Woodhaven.


 
Location: Long Island, New York | Registered:: February 14, 2001Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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From 1960 thru 1963, the E and F used R1/9 equipment almost exclusively. In those years, the R10 was usually found on the Eighth Avenue A Express and the R16, R27 and R30 contracts were limited to the BMT with very rare exception. I concur with Steve that the Q-Type was running on the BMT Jay Street line and was most likely the equipment Bobby was referring to.

Elliot
 
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