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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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Here we are at Woodside/61st Street, watching the approach of yet another World's Fair special, jammed with happy fairgoers..........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?114723
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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At first glance, it would appear that this photo of "STATE OF KANSAS" car #9766 was taken in either 1964 or 1965.............
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?39069
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Wed May 01, 2024 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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Here we have "State" car #9748 ("COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS" at 90th Street..........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?23737
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Wed May 01, 2024 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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Here's another photo of "STATE OF KANSAS" car #9766, this time at 33rd/Rawson, in 1964................
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?114381
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Wed May 01, 2024 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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N4 Jamaica wrote: | Hunting through the gigantic photo collection of nycsubway.org can be tedious. For example, I am interested in the "State" cars that served the 1964 World's Fair. Here is the Rhode Island car on the tail end of a Fair-bound local at Court House Square. It is R36 9440.
[img]https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?4156#google_vignette[/img][url][/url] |
Joe:
What I did (in searching for WF "State" car photos) was to go "station-to-station" along the Flushing line, on the nycsubway.org's "Line By Line" page.
Then, I went by year, focusing on the years the Fair was opened (1964/1965), and browsed until I found photos of "State" cars.
I derive great pleasure in going through all of the wonderfully nostalgic photos of the subways, elevateds, streetcars, and buses that once moved the millions in "Noo Yawk".
Enjoy the photos; always a pleasure to help out!
"NYO"
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Posted: Wed May 01, 2024 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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This NYCTA publicity shot from 1964 features Vermont "State" car #9762 (folks indeed knew how to dress, back in '64!).......
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?23920
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Thu May 02, 2024 10:01 am Post subject: |
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History repeating itself...........
In 1939, the INTERBOROUGH was the oNLY one of the New York subway systems to order new cars for service to the 1939/1940 World's Fair.
In 1964, it was (again) only the IRT that ordered new cars for World's Fair service; no new equipment (regarding the Fair) was purchased for the BMT, whose trains made World's Fair connections at Queensborough Plaza.
In later years, it was not uncommon to see "R-33"/"R-36" World's Fair cars running on other IRT lines (IMHO, they indeed stood out like sore thumbs, when mixed in the consists of non-WF "SMEE" cars)
The "Bluebirds" never looked "at home" on any other IRT line; they will forever be associated with the Flushing line, and, of course, the 1964 World's Fair.
In the early 1980s, I personally can remember seeing them in Lexington Avenue consists.
Recall, also, that the 1938 "Steinway" WF cars ended their days on the Bronx "Toid Aven-uh" El, intermixed with "standard" railroad-roof "Lo-V's"..............
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Thu May 02, 2024 10:08 am Post subject: |
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The "subway" FINALLY (in a sense) comes to "upper-crust" 5th Avenue (1963); a Fishbowl can also be glimpsed in the far background..........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?4036
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W.B. Fishbowl
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Posted: Thu May 02, 2024 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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These WF cars seemed to have been the only ones to have passed through both legendary baseball stadiums (Shea on the #7 line, and Yankee Stadium [ I(a) - or was it I(b)? ] on the #4 in a time when these "Bluebirds" were assigned anywhere and everywhere. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Thu May 02, 2024 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
Recall, also, that, by the time the Fair opened in 1964, the 1938 WF "Stienways" had already been removed from the IRT "mainlines" and had been re-assigned to the "Toid Aven-uh" El up in "da Bronx", where they would remain until replaced by sets of "R-12s" in 1969.
Interestingly, the "Bluebirds" carried fans of both the "Bombers" and the "Amazin' Mets" to and from their respective ballparks, over the years (of course, the iconic cars carried far more Mets fans than Yankee fans, over the course of several decades........
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Thu May 02, 2024 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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Here's an interesting shot from 1974*, at 161st Street...........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?38894
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*Note the readings on the "Bluebird's" roller curtains:
"SPECIAL"
"MAIN STREET"
(Note, too, the short (four car) consist; perhaps this was a railfan special?) |
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