Joe

6688 looks good in that paint scheme. It's unfortunate it and the 15 other R17s painted the same color didn't last longer in service. I think the R17s would of looked even better in the kale green paint scheme as far as I see it.

It's still in that paint scheme...unless things have changed between this week and last.

Oh look, it's 6688...with that motorman.

General Electric: Progress is our Most Important Product

Good luck finding SMEE trains in NYC when 20 years pass.

Sad, ain't it? I don't even like that junk, but i'll be bummed to see it replaced with NTT-like shit.

It's not a SMEE!

Haha, SMEEs with SCM in a thread about nostalgia?

Only two motor cars left, both located on the West Coast. Neither are in Manhattan livery and one of them has a blown motor. Not sure if the Knox & Kane trailer still exists...

Chatham Sq Circa 1940's Joe Testagrose Collection

Manhattan El cars, now those are worth foaming over.

Well something could have been done other then replacing the trucks don't know what it could have been though, but it's like I always say their are ways around loop holes. Wasn't the point of the rockwell trucks was to make the R46s ride like M1s or something like that?

The Rockwell trucks, as ordered by the Transit Authority, were completely unsuitable to the environment that they were running in. I know you guys love to foam about them, but there was just no way that they were going to work.

You can be sure, if it's Westinghouse!

An R38 on arch bar trucks, nice.

Man, some of you guys take this shit a little too seriously.

The original Motorola Droid. I read that Verizon wasn't going to provide the update to these phones officially. Don't know how true that is...

On the other hand, my brother and father both got the update pushed to their Droid X's by VZW.

Just upgraded my phone to Android 2.3.3 (CM7.0.3)...what a wonderful upgrade from 2.2.

What you might call the ancestor of California Girls, but that's giving this number zero credit. Nice oldie here.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zndrl9JF5bs

Joe Jones legal issues notwithstanding, a talented songwriter.

Today I made my first two contacts on radio. 5W FTW.

The way it was meant to be heard too!

******* awesome.