I'll keep this in mind every time I fill up with gas... thanks Joe!
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I'll keep this in mind every time I fill up with gas... thanks Joe!
You are a mean old woman? Damn, who would have guessed?
"And here we see a live show being put on by the History of Transportation Museum on the Transitional Period of the early 1900s"...
That said, the NYC MTA better roll out some of the vintage R1 trains this year again and run them on the R or the E lines!
Those extremely high torque Westinghouse 700 volt DC traction motors are something to hear especially in the confined space underground. Just pure power.
Last time I saw that dude was in Charlie and the Chocolate factory
That’s one ugly dude…….
Uhhhhh, no. I wouldn’t be getting on that airplane.
I'm over 50, and I've had prostate cancer. I've got a gummy worm she can have.
"And here we see a live show being put on by the History of Transportation Museum on the Transitional Period of the early 1900s"...
That said, the NYC MTA better roll out some of the vintage R1 trains this year again and run them on the R or the E lines!
Those extremely high torque Westinghouse 700 volt DC traction motors are something to hear especially in the confined space underground. Just pure power.
My favorite was the R44.
I used to take it all the time for my summer college job once. It was the first series of cars to have the ♫♪ Bing Bong ♪♫ as the doors were closing. And the sound conditioning was so tight you could clearly hear the motor spool up and resonate from nothing. A consistent sound. I loved it. The R46's were close, but no cigar as, you couldn't hear that resonate spool up. Although they did have the "whistle break" release.
A lot of them were rebuilt by Morrison Knudsen, (as I was working on Wall St in the late 90's - early 2000s), so they lost that initial breaking sound but the sound conditioning and motor spool was retained.
My favorite was the R44.
I used to take it all the time for my summer college job once. It was the first series of cars to have the ♫♪ Bing Bong ♪♫ as the doors were closing. And the sound conditioning was so tight you could clearly hear the motor spool up and resonate from nothing. A consistent sound. I loved it. The R46's were close, but no cigar as, you couldn't hear that resonate spool up. Although they did have the "whistle break" release.
A lot of them were rebuilt by Morrison Knudsen, (as I was working on Wall St in the late 90's - early 2000s), so they lost that initial breaking sound but the sound conditioning and motor spool was retained.
I remember those fondly as well. The 44s used to be an A Line phenomenon up until 2009 or so. They had the blue stripe removed and turned patina. Very loud air releases but inside was as quiet as a library. Now they are designated to the Staten Island Railway. The R46s still dominate on the N, Q, and A lines. A lot of the cars on the 46 trains actually have disconnected motors and on one N train I was on last week, there were at least 3 cars with no propulsion. Only the air and door/AC electrical lines were on and they were literally being deadheaded with the other 5 cars pushing/pulling them along...
What's left of the country the founders gave us?
No, the giant Hindenburg-like titties in the pic that I replied too, falling upon my greasy face.
It's weird. Remember all the Hoopla that ensued when the 1st set of Kawasaki R110A's came out? Mostly on the #2 line? I recall the "Media" being the "Media" and trying to "dumb it down" for us sheeples by saying the starting spool up sounded like the 1st 3 notes of West Side Story's "There's a Place for US" but with the last note up one octave...
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Pictures don’t count. In 2023, you need to post a video or it never happened.
Obviously Grandma didn’t grow up on a hog farm. Or the Everglades.
