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EE Broadway Local

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  1. 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
  2. Song: Rapper's Delight Artist: The Sugar Hill Gang Year: 1979 Length: 14:29 Line: "I got a color tv so I can see the Knicks play basketball." http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_931572&feature=iv&v=NwaW4cZNwRk
  3. Hi NX Express! I'm sorry about my gaffe, but if a person is transferring from the (S) Lefferts Boulevard Shuttle to the (A), don't you think it's a little better to transfer at Rockaway Boulevard than to wait until Euclid Avenue? Maybe a little better chance of getting a seat, if nothing else?

     

    Have a wonderful day.

    70(EE)

     

    P.S. The (T) has been here: it was here from 1964-1967. :P

  4. 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 train to Beach 116th Street-Rockaway Park. The following summer, I took an 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 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 and in The South Bronx but also about the (2)70(8) and even the .
  5. Hi Roadcruiser1, lol In your interesting post about a Jamaica El rehab, I think you meant third track as the Jamaica El already carries two third rails. And yes, there is provision that a third track could be added. I believe opposition prevented this from happening.

     

    70(EE)

  6. Hi Trainmaster5! Do you remember the old 70(K) service? What was the service like toward the end?

     

    Thanks,

    70(EE)

  7. Hi! Do you think an S89-type route between Staten Island and Elizabeth or between Staten Island and Perth Amboy might work?

     

    Thanks,

    70(EE)

  8. Hi Rell! Thank you! Alt and 3. Is Caps Lock the same as number lock? (I don't appear to have a number lock key).

    Thanks,

    70(EE)

  9. Hi! NX Express, Do you have any favorite locomotives like E-5, F-9, GP-35, SD-40, Hudson Steam Locomotive, Pacific Steam Locomotive and do you have a favorite freight/passenger railroad?

     

    Thanks,

    70(EE)

  10. How are you, Messino? Are you okay?

  11. AIM: Asking out a cute young woman Logic: You're attracted to her because she is cute and has a personality Theory: You don't feel confident enough to ask her out or you fear she will turn you down
  12. Hi LRG! How is your day? I just want to say I admire you. You've stuck with the (V) and R40 Slants and that's great! :tup: I also enjoy your posts, especially in the Random Thoughts thread.

     

    Have a wonderful day,

    70(EE)

  13. Hi RTOMan! How is your day? Just curious, do you know Railman718, Northeastern Train Operator or Train Dude?

     

    Have a wonderful day!

    70(EE)

  14. Hi R44 CNG, Much thanks! If you could, please: Whitehall 71 Ave-Continental Ave 70(EE) ? No special preference: Whitehall or 71 Ave-Continental Ave can be the top sign. Thank you,

    70(EE)

  15. Hi R44 CNG, Could you possibly make a small inside sign similiar to the one in your signature, if I ask politely and be patient?

    70(EE)

  16. Brand new R40 Slant set in 70(F) service. :tup: These were the Slants before the hardware and note the F on its' large magenta square:
  17. Hi 553 Bridgeton! I like your new Bus Operator (NJT) Title! :tup: Harry and Zach seem to be redesigning the Member area of posts and the styling of our profiles. I like it; yours reminds me of a typewriter.

    70(EE)

  18. At 4:00pm MST. it was a beautiful sight: A bright yellow sun to the west and a white full moon to the east! :tup: One of the beauties of Arizona. (east) o <- White Full Moon Bright Yellow Sun -> ☼ (west) ʌ l clear blue sky (above)
  19. Hi metsfan, The New York Times says a (7)<7> tunnel from West 34th Street would cost about $5.3 million and Secaucus is being looked because of a connection with NJ Transit. If you look at Google Maps, such a tunnel would come out at approximately between 19th Street and Lincoln Harbor HBLR. Next problem: tunneling under Weehawken, Union City, North Bergen and the Meadowlands. I'm not sure from the article if Secaucus would be the only station, but there really isn't much between there and Lincoln Harbor except for maybe Kennedy Boulevard or Bergenline Avenue.

     

    70(EE)

  20. New products I am trying: Crush Lime Soda (Lime is on her own here without Lemon): M & M Pretzel (These actually are pretty good): AriZona Half Iced Tea And Half Mango (Very good): Claey's Lemon Drops (These are very good old fashioned hard lemon drops):
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