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ordinarybirds) wrote2018-12-10 09:09 pm
ordinarybirds) wrote2018-12-10 09:09 pm
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A cool subway thing!
So. I really love trains.
All trains are neat but the NYC subway system is my JAM, and since I am on them fairly often i get to observe lots of cool and slightly irregular things like what happened on my ride home from DBT group tonight.
On New Years Day, 2017, the MTA opened a few stations up Second Avenue. As far as I'm aware, the first suggestion of a Second Avenue Subway was in like the 1920s; I theorize that they were VERY INVESTED in getting a train up second avenue before it had been 100 years since someone first said "hey you know what would be cool...?" I live off of one of these stops, and I never made time to take the Q before then* but when I did, they were running the newest cars (according to my scratch research it's R160s or later?) because it was the Shiny New Subway Please Don't Look At The Hot Mess That Is The Nearby 6 Train Stops.
But TONIGHT. On my way home. We were on what was, according to my scratch research. An R68.
(By MTAEnthusiast10 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52183602)
I love the interior of these cars. It's so ridiculous! I have heard that it was designed to stop homeless people sleeping on the train but I don't have a source for that, and also it is possible to work around so MISSION FAILED MTA. Per wikipedia, these cars were constructed in the late 80s.
But that's not what's interesting here. WHAT I LOVE MOST HERE
IS
THAT THEY MADE A PHYSICAL ROLLSIGN
FOR A TRAIN BUILT IN THE 80s
TO BE USED ON A LINE THAT WAS EXTENDED THAT FAR IN 2017.
How cool is that???? Someone at the sign shop was like "okay we're putting a train there and we need to be ready to explain the destination of a Q train if we need to use older rolling stock".
I just really like trains Okay, especially subway trains. Olli was right the "[thought] [comma] [new thought]" model is oddly seductive, it SOUNDS DIFFERENT in my head. See that full stop feels different. I'm sure I'll adjust someday. anyway this has been Cupcake's Fun Fact Subway Corner. I feel like this whisperspace is half apology for having An Interest. a downside, I think, to the tumblr blogging model: given how notes were structured--likes were kind of like "hey I saw this" and so if you posted and Interesting Thing to you and there was no response that meant that no one cared about your Thing but you, and maybe y'all are more well adjusted but I am a hothouse flower.
*maybe? I can't remember if I actually saw the Masstransiscope in person or just the video online because i have no concept of time or space; either way I am down to go again if I have interested company over.
All trains are neat but the NYC subway system is my JAM, and since I am on them fairly often i get to observe lots of cool and slightly irregular things like what happened on my ride home from DBT group tonight.
On New Years Day, 2017, the MTA opened a few stations up Second Avenue. As far as I'm aware, the first suggestion of a Second Avenue Subway was in like the 1920s; I theorize that they were VERY INVESTED in getting a train up second avenue before it had been 100 years since someone first said "hey you know what would be cool...?" I live off of one of these stops, and I never made time to take the Q before then* but when I did, they were running the newest cars (according to my scratch research it's R160s or later?) because it was the Shiny New Subway Please Don't Look At The Hot Mess That Is The Nearby 6 Train Stops.
But TONIGHT. On my way home. We were on what was, according to my scratch research. An R68.
(By MTAEnthusiast10 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52183602)
I love the interior of these cars. It's so ridiculous! I have heard that it was designed to stop homeless people sleeping on the train but I don't have a source for that, and also it is possible to work around so MISSION FAILED MTA. Per wikipedia, these cars were constructed in the late 80s.
But that's not what's interesting here. WHAT I LOVE MOST HERE
IS
THAT THEY MADE A PHYSICAL ROLLSIGN
FOR A TRAIN BUILT IN THE 80s
TO BE USED ON A LINE THAT WAS EXTENDED THAT FAR IN 2017.
How cool is that???? Someone at the sign shop was like "okay we're putting a train there and we need to be ready to explain the destination of a Q train if we need to use older rolling stock".
I just really like trains Okay, especially subway trains. Olli was right the "[thought] [comma] [new thought]" model is oddly seductive, it SOUNDS DIFFERENT in my head. See that full stop feels different. I'm sure I'll adjust someday. anyway this has been Cupcake's Fun Fact Subway Corner. I feel like this whisperspace is half apology for having An Interest. a downside, I think, to the tumblr blogging model: given how notes were structured--likes were kind of like "hey I saw this" and so if you posted and Interesting Thing to you and there was no response that meant that no one cared about your Thing but you, and maybe y'all are more well adjusted but I am a hothouse flower.
*maybe? I can't remember if I actually saw the Masstransiscope in person or just the video online because i have no concept of time or space; either way I am down to go again if I have interested company over.