video(s) [HD] R32 R Train RFW Footage - 95th Street-Forest Hills

[Dj Hammers]

Here's the full northbound RFW footage from Saturday's R32 R.

You can hear just how ridiculous the fans in the first car were acting. Virtually no respect for themselves and their fellow passengers.

Regardless, enjoy. Who knows when a chance to get footage like this will manifest again.

 

[Unselfishprism]

AWESOME  VIDEO THE R32 SUBWAY ON THE   SERVICE IS BACK YHAOOOOOO!!!

[realizm]

Good job MC Hammers! +1.

[Around the Horn]

Awesome!

[j express]

Nice video. You can see me yelling in the video at the railfans to keep the volume down.

[R40SlantFan]

Wow, you got the entire line on video. Thats some amazing work right there.

 

Sort of sucks that there was all that screaming from the foamers in the background. The people chanting "thats good" were especially annoying. They could use a good reality check.

[Turbo19]

Awesome vid!

[Union Tpke]

Outstanding video, I love the view of the bellmouths!!!!!!

Long live R32s!

[Missabassie]

Great Video!

[GreeneggsnPelham]

Excellent video! Those idiots were annoying as all hell though. 

 

-A 

[realizm]

What I really liked about this is the pat as the train rolls into the underground four track bridge. It is known that the Bay Ridge line was designed with over engineered features for a 4 track line from two tracks if the SI tunnel was ever built, so the structure there was cool to watch from a real RFW!

[Dj Hammers]

What I really liked about this is the pat as the train rolls into the underground four track bridge. It is known that the Bay Ridge line was designed with over engineered features for a 4 track line from two tracks if the SI tunnel was ever built, so the structure there was cool to watch from a real RFW!

Yeah there's a lot of provisional construction on the southern part of the 4th Avenue Line for 2 more tracks on the east side of 4th Avenue. There's also leads to a tunnel to Staten Island south of 59th Street.

[realizm]

Yeah there's a lot of provisional construction on the southern part of the 4th Avenue Line for 2 more tracks on the east side of 4th Avenue. There's also leads to a tunnel to Staten Island south of 59th Street.

 

Yup. Immediately south of 59th Street on both sides there are spurs. Then there are columns at Bay Ridge Ave but only on the S/B side not the N/B as you stated. Also there are suggestions by historians that underground on 4th Ave in the Bay Ridge area, utilities (Main water lines, electrical lines, gas mains and such) are set in place in a way that it is only on the southbound section of the street to the vicinity of Owld Head Park. It actually seems so with manhole covers only on the S/B side of the thoroughway so this may be actually true.

 

The 86th Street station has an unusual layout suggesting half of an express station never finished, again as you stated.

 

Also the fact there are bellmouths at Owls Head Park. Which is documented by IND engineers later on in their second system plans to create a Ft Hamilton Ave Line south of the Culver Viaduct to utilize that now closed off BMT bellmouth to the once proposed tunnels as an alterntive to the branchoff from 59th street. So the BMT overengineered for the SI tunnel from two areas interestingly enough, for two different proposals. One being a loop line from Brooklyn to Manhattan to SI via Ellis Island and back, the other a straight shot.

 

I have the maps.

 

 

Its a very interesting history behind the saga of the SI tunnel with the Dual Contrct proposals which provisions were actually built. Which is fascinating.

[Dj Hammers]

Excellent video! Those idiots were annoying as all hell though. 

 

-A 

Yeah... it got pretty bad at times, notably at the 28:40 mark.

[Union Tpke]

Also according to tunnelrat on subchat, there are sealed portals south of 95 st for a storage yard. For more details go search it on subchat.

[realizm]

Also according to tunnelrat on subchat, there are sealed portals south of 95 st for a storage yard. For more details go search it on subchat.

 

Oh wow, cool! Never knew that.

[Union Tpke]

Also according to tunnelrat on subchat, there are sealed portals south of 95 st for a storage yard. For more details go search it on subchat.

excuse my randyo. They all have tons of great info.

http://www.subchat.com/readflat.asp?Id=751780&p=2

"Those "bellmouths" however were not intended to go to Staten Island. At one point in the construction of the extension of the original 4 Av subway from 86 to 95 st, It was planned to construct a small underground storage yard S/O 95 St since storage has been a chronic problem for the 4 Av Line since its construction. I have heard that those trackways actually extend a few blocks past the tunnel wall but since they continue straight rather than follow under 4 Av, they would be under private property and difficult to trace. "