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Etson;
Incorrect. The B and D lines are part of the original BMT lines.
IRT – numbered lines
IND – low letters (I think A through F but not sure)
BMT – high letters (J and above)
Not sure where the G fell.
CG;
Here’s how you can tell:
IRT = numbered train lines
BMT = original privately built subway lines between Manhattan and Brooklyn: N, B, B, R and L
IND = subway lines built by city in 1930’s. These are also lettered like the BMT. The city integrated the BMT and IND lines at the time, including the same size train width (the IRT is smaller). However, there is one way to tell the IND lines: they have that colored line-code running along the walls of the station (Think of the F stops in Carrol Gardens: there is a green stripe running along the tile walls).
Speaking of old subway lines…
…..when I was a boy, do you know what job I considered to be the most courageous? Subway conductor!
Do you know why? On the older subway cars, there was no cab for the conductor (nor a PA system, like today). At every stop, the conductor would go between the train cars, and put each foot on a thin steel pedestal that hung off each car and climb up to look alongside the entire length of the train. He kind of straddled the gap between the subway cars. He would stay in this position while the train pulled out of the station, and look both ways (along the length of the train) to make sure that the nobody was stuck in the doors.
I was totally in awe of these guys. They did this 100’s of time a day. Today it would never be allowed due to safety concerns, but I don’t ever recall hearing of a conductor slipping off these small steel pedestals.
Does anybody remember those old subway cars? ENY or Crescent Hill? The ones with the wicker seats and ceiling fans. The best thing about those old subways cars was the sound they made when the train started up after a stop: wwwwwwwrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. That’s the best way I can describe it.
“Pacifico was a little on the chilly side.”
As I recall, it was also a little on the “ratty” side, jester
Cobble, glad to see you back. We’ve been worried about you.
Snappy, too. You need some chicken soup. Feel better.
so long folks, off to the gym to make myself a sexy old man like Letterman with space between front teeth…
and then to financial planner and he’d better say I’m not off my rocker to retire in 19 months…then to opening of longest pedestrian walkway bridge ceremony lighting in Poughkeepsie/Highland where I will carry lantern to illuminiate bridge and freeze and get rained on this evening.
Have a great wkend.
benson, cobble, pete, arkady – can you please translate the correlation between the IND, IRT, and BMT trains and today’s lettered and numbered trains for the non-native-New Yorkers among us who have tried, to no avail, to figure it out for ourselves?
Did I not warn you all about Pacifico…?
Sorry to hear some of yous guys are sick.
Did anyone see Minard totally go off the deep end in the HOTD thread yesterday? Yowzas!