Joel Up Front

Mine doesn't work anymore... I could find a used one, but I do have games from overseas that require... certain hardware to play.

It's always cool to sit at a terminal and watch a convoy of buses rolling in to start another run or to take passengers.

Ah, these were great memories, driving down a small-scale version of Manhattan in this game from 1999. Reminds me of the camera zooming down various side streets until it got to your car, on a dark and rainy night.

An old MSBA operator on SubChat said those Gilligs were deathtraps and had power steering that was too sensitive. Why did they take the cool "Phantom" name? Is it a reference to how like its safety, phantoms aren't real?

Thank you! It is hard to figure out whats a Nassau bus and whats a Queens bus along Hillside Av... That is until the N6 goes flying by at 45 right past you, as you flail your arms wildly... At least five things wrong with that. 1) Forty-five? Miles an hour? On Hillside Avenue? laughingelfman.jpg 2) LIB operators wish they could do 45. Wait, I was just on the N51 and the B/O DID about 45 for a good 20 seconds. Fun ride. 3) Bus models? Destination signs? That not good enough for you if the NGs are all white with a blue stripe? 4) Okay, I ran out of things. 5) You just lost the game.

There's always gotta be the ***** ass professor in your institution of higher learning that gives you impossible to answer problems for homework and then bitches when no one understands it. Tenure a good instructor does not always make.

When I was on the second I got on last Friday, the conductor actually made an annoucement himself. He was pretty heated at the person blocking the doors. That wasn't me because I was looking at the map inside the car... still startled me, though.

NJT does use Luminators, so you shouldn't have a problem.

Seriously, the next time I see this Princess crap I am going to flip shit.

If "The Wiz" doesn't scream "I grew up in the 1990s," I don't know what will. The one I did have near me is a Petco now.

lol glee It's the exact opposite of what I feel when I catch a glance of it.

Please, MMPR Yellow ranger = hot. Why she was the Yellow Ranger and Asian we will never know. Why did she have to die...

There's a key difference between liking a railroad and foaming over it. Being told after foaming is not an excuse to get mad.

Too bad about those fires and brake issues. I did lol @ the paper rollsign, though... we were still in that "omg look digital" age from the early 1980s and we still used the old rollsigns?

That's JohnQPine, Garibaldi. Not saying he's any better than the trolls on SubChat. Nice of him to help that B/O on the N27 after that storm in June just after the cuts hit, but he had nothing nice to say after...

I get on the N43 earlier and run into the same bus operator whom I remember for arriving to Freeport 20 minutes late consistently who had the run for God knows how long.... she rolls up to NCC just in time, never broke 30 anywhere, and somehow arrived under Freeport right on time. When I do get on the M7 that rolled into the station, the conductor that was collecting tickets got smacked by the door at Baldwin because everyone got on real quick and the head conductor must have been eager to give the engineer the signal.

Pokemon Black and White? I want to see a "Legend of Zelda: The Five Boroughs."

Damn it, there was this Facebook group about the NYC Subway that had photos of the coolest and weirdest stuff in the subway, including: -"Brodaway" on the (which is how I started getting into the subway) -The group starter finding a somewhat concealed outlet on the ceiling of a subway station, and taking a photo of his Blackberry charger plugged into it -hijinks within subway cars, such as a girl in one of those toy Hummers and more... But it apparently went down last year or something.

The M8s would look cool in Kawasaki's native Japan, but that top light just kills it. Godawful things. Not to mention I'm not exactly a fan of Metro-North. Or the state of Connecticut. Or Pennsylvania, but that is for another time. I like how sleek the R160s look, but if the LED sign is somehow missing half the fracking letter or the circle around it, it ruins it for me.

A MUCH BETTER "What's My Name."

But I read that Optimum loves capping people.... but I do hear that FiOS 1 out on the island is so godawful.

I did love Cablevision back when Charles Dolan owned it. He has to step in and undo what his son is doing, though. I played Black Ops on wireless FiOS last night and my connection was still superb.

New train operators usually take what they can get, right? I wouldn't feel right on a rush hour train if I heard that the train operator was fresh out of school car and is on his first day alone in the cabin. There was water in between the rails at Sutphin. I attributed it to the normal gunk that is in between the rails on the subway, but I thought it had something to do with the rain. I personally miss the old gibberish announcements on the SMEEs. Automated announcements are nicer on buses, but on the subway it's somehow nicer to hear a human voice, though garbled, than some recycled clip. On the platform at Jamaica, one of the service advisory monitors they always have something on had an error box on it and it seemed like they were pretending that no one would notice it.