Cab ride on the N Train

Just looked at your video.  Very  nice ! I didnot know your a operator for the subways. But it was nice to see freight on the bay ridge  branch and that  they fixed the track you were on once out of the tunnel it runs straight along the  endbankment .It used to curve over to the center for a block then switch over. When i took the sea beach to  High School downtown  i would see the New Haven engines  under the catenary waiting at  8 ave for 

the ok to proceed into the yards at  Bay ridge.  Very  nice...

Now that is cool!

 

--Greg

Thanks Greg

 

Carl

I am very partial to this spot in Brooklyn as that's where I grew up.  Used to sit on the hill at 7th ave watching trains all the time.  Saw the New Haven rectifiers and the LIRR BB3's switching the yard  Everything went to diesel in the last few years of Long Island operations.  They redid the car floats at Bay Ridge and the New York and Atlantic runs trains from Bay Ridge to Fresh pond  3 a week.  The NYNJ Rail operate the car floats to Greenville.

That track that used to curve in from the wall did so because the wall was collapsing in that spot.  It has been rebuilt.  Heard that many stations along the N from 8th ave to 86 street will be rebuilt  Trains will run on the newly refurbished northbound express track.  The southbound track doesn't have any third rail but will be rebuilt soon

I know how you feel. I did the same thing near park villa
Junction. Do you remember the 8 ave engine house
I used to follow the route of the manhatten beach branch
An the tunnel under the Brighton line to the race track.
As a teenager we used to explore the pile of standards
That were being scraped near cropsey ace

Great video!!

I bought that camera last year. For the price (I think it was about $35) it takes really, really great quality videos. I have mounted it on top of the glareshield (dashboard) of a Cessna 172, the handlebars of my bike and on the front of a train of my O-Gauge layout. I'm waiting for them to come out with an underwater housing for snorkeling.

Very good video. Brings back memories of when I would go to work with my father who was a conductor on the Sea Beach line in the early '60s. At that time the BMT ran the ABs and R-27s on the Sea Beach. The last time I was on this run was back in '68 when I and some class mates rode the super express NX from 57th St to Brighton Beach.

This will never happen again.

 

Carl

The house on 8th Ave was called G&R packing  There is a great history of it here http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/indloco/rbe.html  I even have a couple of photo credits  LOL

Want to thank you for that response an great info

Hey Ben that was great!!!!!. Thanks for the ride, would like to see more in the future

 

Did you get that camera at Douzer's on Dekalb ave

 

Alex

 

 

Thanks, great ride along!!

Great video, thanks for taking me back to Brooklyn.

 

Jay

I hate when I nod off on the D or the N and miss the change to the R. Nice video - thanks for posting. 

 

Was on the D in Manhattan a few months ago - the operator had the door propped open for some reason - lifted the camera to take a pic, but he saw me and gestured no. I put the camera away. Was surprised to see a digital speedo. Steady at 30 mph. He closed the door at the next stop.

 

David

 

 

Great Video!

 

But these new trains talk to darn much - if you don't where you are thats your own fault.  I miss the "bing bong" and that was all you heard or needed. 

Thanks, Ben. Neat video.

 

Brought back memories of the days when I would leave nose prints on the front window of most of the subway trains I rode.

 

Jim

Great video, thank you for sharing. I grew up riding the T in Boston and loved the streetcars of the Green Line cause you could look out the windshield.

Ben

Thanks for the ride, Do I need to swipe my metro card?

 

Question  As a motorman, do you always work with the same conductor? IF not how are the pairings arranged?

Steve

Steve

When you have enough seniority you get to pick jobs every 6 months  It starts at the most senior person and works its way down to the lower seniority pond scum like me.  It could be a god thing or a bad thing getting the same conductor for 6 months.  I am part of wat they call extra list  I get jobs based on vacancies for vacations, days off, sick time or open jobs.  Its different every day

Fantastic video, Ben!

 

Peter

And, if you play the game right, you can make a lot dough(OT). 

 

Richie

Great Video Ben !!! I like when the train comes out of the tunnel.

I hope to see Dr. Luna soon.

Ben,

Thanks for sharing your ride. It brought back some memories for me. What became of the landlocked H.R. Porter switcher?

Really making want to change careers lol

Hi Ben:

 

I spent my younger years in the 50s riding the Brighton Express from either Kings Highway on the way to Brighton Beach or to Coney Island, or from Newkirk Av. to Times Square or 57th St. In the 60s I rode it from Sheepshead Bay to work in Manhattan.  It was at the Sheepshead Bay Station that historic moment on Monday, September 14, 1964 when a set of headlights is coming towards me and a gleaming train that I never expected pulls in to my complete surprise. It was the first revenue run of the R32s.

The route of the N train has never been changed at least going back to the 50s expect that now it just goes on to Astoria but still stops at Times Square and 57th St it's original two end points in the 50s. Thanks for the video.

 

Ed Gerson

Hi Ed

The N also went to 71st Continental in queens for awhile.  They switched the N and the R Astoria and Continental so that the R could be serviced by Jamaica Yard

Wow, subways and a camera called Mobius.

Now there's an odd coincidence.

How about a 1950 SF story about disappearing trains called........ A Subway called Mobius by A.J. Deutsch?

 

http://www.wcatyweb.org/librar...ibus_A_J_Deutsch.pdf

 

The same thing crossed my mind! Thank you! One of my favorites! I hadn't seen this in years.

 

See, don't be tempted to add that last track siding to your already complicated layout. You might start losing things.

 

Jim

 

Yep, I don't get the lack of understanding of curved space. Why, I can have two model railroad stations miles apart and separated by a couple of inches. What's the problem? 

Ben,

thank you for the video.  I just looked at the Möbius website too.  It looks like an excelent  camera and a very nice price