Joel Up Front

In Soviet Russia, general orders announce you! Another video, but this is the LIRR, from 1992. I like how the engineer gives the guy a wave, but what the hell is wrong with his voice?

Isn't the closest one near the 42nd Street Shuttle with an extremely small and cramped HEET entrance?

They started taking the stripes off the back of the Orion Vs here... what's weird is that most of the others still have the stripes. And new operators all around today, I guess most bus operators are now on the routes that they picked.

And what's with this money going to stations on the subway being made more "accessible?" I had to take a platform elevator once at 34th Street-Penn and it smelled like piss. There are buses all over Manhattan, and it's just begging to be abused by bums on wheelchairs..

I used to wheel my collection of die cast cars along that little space in between the rail and the wall... and then one time it got stuck on the rail so I ran up to get the car but the step I was on was too far from the floor for me to get down, so I had to take an escalator back down.

I never got past Viridian Forest in Yellow. Gave up on it after because I had Silver by then.

God Almighty, that Samsung phone has a tiny ass screen for all the features it has. The resolution should be the other way around; 320 x 480 is the resolution of the old 5th Generation iPod (a.k.a. the iPod video), and that's from five years ago.

I bought about four different GameCube games... SSBM - A classic, some ass in my HS stole it or something.... wish I could play my family members again. Starfox Adventures - I loved this game when a family member left it at my house for 4 months but it took three cousins of mine to help me beat it.... never found interest in it until last month. Capcom Vs SNK 2: EO - As much as I love fighting games, I can never master the moves... or figure out how to block.

When they started coming in March, they ran with just the blue stripe and logo on the front. They looked damn good without any ads, too. A few of the NGs from 2009 are running without any front ads, but last I saw them was mid-March.

They started putting ads on the new NGs. It does look a bit weird on the front, with nothing under it.

And you think that kind of stuff never happens on the island, only in the city... I really think you guys that haven't already been on an NG CNG on LI wouldn't like it... maybe the most recent batch, but not the 1700s.

I never noticed the "Vapor" on the handles of the door itself until last month... it looks pretty cool on the handle and sounds cool, but why did the company pick "Vapor?"

I'd rather see Grand Central get demolished and the old Penn come back. That photograph of one of the eagles rotting in NJ makes me want to choke people. And somehow that dump - I mean, NJ got to keep its Penn Station in Newark, which pretty much got hit hard after WWII... but somehow got to keep such an ornate structure. Only now do we really appreciate the old station for what it was...

And another reason why I hate Grand Central. Old Penn Station and GC were around the same age when the PRR was failing, so how the hell did Grand Central get preserved while old Penn Station fell?

Also forgot: Hyannis, MA Cape Cod, MA (beautiful place, wouldn't want to be there during storms) San Francisco, CA Milpitas, CA I love how SubwayGuy has been to the two most well-known Newarks in the country...

All I can credit Moses for positively is the building of Shea Stadium (even though the Mets suck) and moving the UN to NYC. Philly might have significance in American minds, but what about globally?

I do rage when I see photos of the original (and first) Penn Station in Manhattan. To think that the tracks leading to it from Queens were on an open cut once upon a time. And what it must have been like to be in such a grand structure once you climbed up the stairs. It's depressing once your train goes into the East River Tunnels and you pull into Penn Station. The platforms and tracks may have been spared (and upgraded, but still left in their original positions) but once you go up those stairs, you're in a basement. A very well-lit basement with lots of retail space, but still a giant basement that smells of burnt motors and rail dust. Well, LI will get even when ESA is finished and we get to roll right into Grand Central right by a "better-run" Metro-North. Goddamn Robert Moses for ruining Long Island and turning it into typical suburbia. No wonder all the PBLs on LI went bust. Low overpasses, sharp curves? Parkways going right behind peoples' backyards? How could public transit to any attraction on the island be successful if his car-centric planning ruined all of that? He never even drove!

I was only nine the last time I went. I can't remember much considering all I did was stay in my dad's sister's house and visit people I'd never seen before. The food was great, though.

Ha, I just rode the LIRR to Penn this morning and all was well, other than my Haagen Dazs melting and getting all over my jacket on the ride home. When I got off at Lynbrook, a bright and warm spring air blew onto the platform and it felt good.

Visited: Virginia Beach, VA Manila, Philippines Newark, NJ Irvington, NJ Ocean City, NJ Long Beach, NJ Wildwood, NJ (love this especially) Washington, D.C. Atlantic City, NJ I've lived in only two places: Flushing and Valley Stream.

Haha, "asinine." The urge to get on there and troll him with various things I can't talk about here is so great, but I do want to ask about some historic MSBA/LIB stuff there at the same time.

Is the destination bullet on the FIND displays more orange or yellow? Last time I rode the subway, it looked more yellow to me, but maybe that's because the LEDs are bright.

Wow, where did it all go wrong? From Hot Shots to "winning" at crack addiction...

A pity all the competition between the IRT, BMT, and IND has hampered development and capacity... Look at the . It could have gone farther into Manhattan than Times Square... it was smart of the City to use BMT specs for the R-series.

That's what I've been doing since last Spring semester. I remember my cousin (who graduated in 2007 and found a job in the middle of the Great Recession) told me about it. How I remember it: Spring 2010: Accounting: Old bastard in his early 70s who was apparently from Queens and "remembers when the subway fare was a nickel." Was actually nice to talk to outside of class, but no one did considering all he did to us was bitch about our grades and he would randomly leave class for a good five minutes every class. English: God Almighty, some people just aren't meant to be educators. There was nothing wrong with her process, but she was so condescending I never really did anything for her other than give her two copies of the same crap. On top of that, that was a late class on Tuesday and Thursday, so I wanted to get the hell home. Macroeconomics: Another good example of "people that shouldn't be in education." He apparently worked in the finance sector in Manhattan and even helped create tests for stockbrokers and future finance workers in the 1970s, when no one really gave a crap about Wall Street. Had apparently been at NCC since 1981. Statistics: The only good portion of last year. I didn't take the class too seriously considering plugging numbers into simple formulas was a strong point of mine. Oh, and the professor was hot. She was always on her phone, though, and got pissy if anyone else had theirs out. Really, I don't see myself going to medicine, like every other Filipino has...