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  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 2:25 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
With a "cameo" by "Jetson" Fishbowl #602, this hustlin', bustlin', "Noo Yawk" street scene (160th Street, Jamaica) literally explodes with urban nostalgia! Wink

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  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 12:21 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
A few glimpses from "under da 'Toid Aven-uh' El" up in "da Bronx" (first photo is my personal fave!) Wink

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?28692

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  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 12:07 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
(SEE PREVIOUS POSTS)

Now, for a glaring contrast, compare these two views from 1967 and 1980 (Jamaica El territory).........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?160279

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  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 10:44 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
And, by 1974, a similar scenario was also then being played out elsewhere, as "stoa's" buses passed through the rows of now-redundant steel columns, which, until the previous year, had supp ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 10:36 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
"No-EL, No-EL" (Parsons & Jamaica, 1980)

Like brooding, silent sentinels from a past civilization, the remaining columns of the now-demolished Jamaica El watch the passing of Fishbowl ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 10:26 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
W.B.:

Indeed, the veteran "Arnines" saw tremendous changes in the "Noo Yawk" transit picture during their long and hard-working service years.

Recall, in 1932, the "Bee- ...
  Topic: Israel's only subway (Haifa)/Overseas subways/Metros
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: General Transportation - All Other Modes   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 12:52 am   Subject: Israel's only subway (Haifa)/Overseas subways/Metros
Here is an interesting view of the cab of one of the Moscow Metro's older cars...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?59505

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

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  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 12:23 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
Back in 1971, we have "Batwing Bullet" #8103 departing the "Bee-Em-Tee's" Rockaway Parkway station.

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154897

Indeed, #8103 contrasts sharply ...
  Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future.......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 12:09 am   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future.......
A few more glimpses of "PQ" ("Patchwork Quilt")-era trains, from long-ago days.......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3359

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3310

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  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 9:08 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
Rockaway Parkway station, 1972...............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154787

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155220

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By 1972, we began to see the o ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 7:42 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
Here we have assorted "Tee-Yay" green Fishbowls gathering at Washington Plaza in 1972, with the BMT elevated line overhead............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153353 ("Je ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 3:32 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
167th Street, 1983.

Here, we have two "stoa" Fishbowls (sporting the dreaded, uninspired "Dip" scheme) slugging through the drifts of what was obviously a hefty snowfall.

Not ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 3:17 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
The rear of "Torpedo" #9645 dates this photo of the old "Eye-Are-Tee" 72nd Street station headhouse (photo dates to 2006)

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?54293

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  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 1:19 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
Here are two 1978 photos of the "Eye-Are-Tee" headhouse at 72nd Street; there are buses to be seen in both photos (Fishbowls and a "Dangerfield")..........

https://www.nycsubway ...
  Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future.......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 1:04 pm   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future.......
"Mixed consist" at Avenue P (Culver), 1969.............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?5247

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And the funny (peculiar) thing about this "Borgasch ...
 
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