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    Off-topic Random Thoughts Thread

    in Off Topic Lounge

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    Or send the R32 Brightliner to Concourse and place it on the (D):)

    I have never seen Fresh Pond yard so empty before. There's only 2 trains sitting there...and that damn R32 that hasn't moved since the summertime :mad:. There 2 diesels there clearing the tracks now

     

     

    I wish they would do something with that damn R32 instead of having it sit there. Throw it to ENY and make them use it ;)

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    Off-topic Random Thoughts Thread

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    Sunset in New York City today is 4:32pm; Sunrise is 7:16am tomorrow;

    Sunset in Phoenix today is 5:24pm; but sunrise is 7:28am tomorrow

     

    We could all be in Fairbanks, Alaska where sunset today is 2:40pm and sunrise is 10:59am tomorrow (Fairbanks actually is a small city with 35,000) or in Reykjavik, Iceland where sunset is 3:29pm today and sunrise is 11:21am tomorrow.

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    The Mobile/Smartphone Thread

    in Technology, Photography & Video

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    My new cellular telephone has the following tones:

    • Beep Once (single loud beep - sounds like a door chime)

    • Bloom (nice tone)

    • Detect (cool sounding tone)

    • Funk Funk (interesting sounding tone)

    • Gate Doom (cool sounding tone)

    • New Message Tone (short Verizon Wireless-like sound; good to use for incoming text messages)

    • No Ring

    • Rock Ballad (nice tone)

    • Synthesizer (short tone)

    • VZW Default Tone (short Verizon sound)

    • Ringtone 1 (Sounds like a landline telephone ring)

    • Ringtone 2 (Sounds like a futuristic landline telephone ring)

    • Ringtone 3 (Similiar to Ringtone 2)

     

    Plus the following sounds:

    • Train (Yay!)

    • Rainforest

    • Happy Birthday

    • Crowd Roar

    • Clapping

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    What made you a transit fan?

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    I was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in a wonderful transit area - the New York Metropolitan Area.

     

    Growing up, two of the places I liked to visit were Greenville at 119 Merritt Street and the Central Avenue IBOA at 297 Communipaw Avenue. It was here I learned buses were called G.M.C. Old Looks and New Looks (Fishbowls).

     

    When I was in elementary school, PATH came by and gave a presentation during which they spoke about the danger of the third rail and playing near/on tracks. They showed a short film and distributed courtesy pens. I became hooked.

     

    In 1972, I watched my first movie, A Short Walk To Daylight, a television movie about the New York City Subway during an earthquake and featured R1-R9s.

     

    I set out to learn the Jersey City bus routes and how to get from Jersey City to Bayonne and to Union City, Weehawken, West New York, Guttenberg, and North Bergen. Unfortunately, a slightly bad incident in Hoboken left a bad impression and it wasn't until the summer of 1990 that I returned (except for weekend trips on PATH which ran via Hoboken). I learned which bus routes served which libraries, especially Greenville, Lafayette, Miller and Hudson City.

     

    I remember I was blessed to take at least one ride on the then Central Avenue IBOA, Bergen Avenue IBOA, Montgomery And West Side, Lafayette And Greenville, Downtown Bus Company (#5/6, #31), North Boulevard Transportation Company, South Boulevard Bus Owners Association, Transport Of New Jersey #7 and #9. I learned Broadway was served by an IBOA, that Avenue C was served by the #14 and #14X, that Palisade Avenue was served by the #44 and #99 and that Summit Avenue was served by the #16 and #18. Trips to New York City added an occaisional treat ride on the then North Boulevard #5 via the Lincoln Tunnel to PABT.

     

    Trips to New York City got me hooked on PATH, subways, the M10, M9 and especially the B67 and Mr. Jackie Gleason Depot (formerly the Fifth Avenue Depot).

     

    In the summer of 1988, I purchased my very first-ever subway book, Uptown Downtown A Trip Through Time On New York's Subways for $12.95 at City Books on Chambers Street.

     

    That summer, I made my very first-ever ride out to the Rockaways, on a R27-R30 (C) train to Beach 116th Street-Rockaway Park. The following summer, I took an (A) train to Mott Avenue-Far Rockaway. The Rockaways (especially Far Rockaway, Arverne, Broad Channel and Rockaway Park) became a favorite place. I also took my very first-ever ride out to Dyre Avenue on an R26 (5) train and became interested in the Dyre Avenue line.

     

    I fell in love with our transit museum and especially with the R36 WF car in aquamarine and cream and the R1-9 car.

     

    And there was Princelex, a person we called "The Patron Saint" of The Bronx I.R.T.. He knew all about the (4)(5) and (6) in The South Bronx but also about the (2)70(8) and even the (1).

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