I don't know if anybody reads nyc.transit anymore, though I thought to
try and post and see what happens.
I don't know if anybody reads nyc.transit anymore, though I thought to
try and post and see what happens.
I recently watched an episode of "Hill Street Blues," specifically S1
Ep14, and it showed footage of an ACMU 4400 (a.k.a. Washboard) arriving
at what is now Harlem - 125th Street.
I don't know if anybody reads nyc.transit anymore, though I thought to
try and post and see what happens.
I recently watched an episode of "Hill Street Blues," specifically S1
Ep14, and it showed footage of an ACMU 4400 (a.k.a. Washboard) arriving
at what is now Harlem - 125th Street.
Is there any other video footage of them that anybody can recommend? >Alternatively, are there any other photos of either the interior or the cab?
That model was one of the predecessors to the M2, though it had a
relatively short service life of 20 years.
In article <q864pa$1rc$1@adenine.netfront.net>,
hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk <hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I don't know if anybody reads nyc.transit anymore, though I thought to
try and post and see what happens.
I recently watched an episode of "Hill Street Blues," specifically S1
Ep14, and it showed footage of an ACMU 4400 (a.k.a. Washboard) arriving
at what is now Harlem - 125th Street.
Is there any other video footage of them that anybody can recommend?
Alternatively, are there any other photos of either the interior or the cab? >>
That model was one of the predecessors to the M2, though it had a
relatively short service life of 20 years.
I rode them back and forth between New Haven and NYC when I was in
college in the 1970s. Even then they were pretty clapped out.
No
video that I know of.
In <q864pa$1rc$1@adenine.netfront.net> "hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk" <hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
I don't know if anybody reads nyc.transit anymore, though I thought to
try and post and see what happens.
[waves hand]
I do!
I myself took a trip on a Washboard in the early 1980s, when
they were relegated to the New Canaan Branch. I remember the
ride as being very rattley.
On 4/4/19 7:42 PM, hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I myself took a trip on a Washboard in the early 1980s, when they were
relegated to the New Canaan Branch. I remember the ride as being very
rattley.
I got to run the New Canaan set of Washboards once, in 1983. I was laid
off at the time (from Conrail, Amtrak, AND Metro-North), but the MN crew dispatchers called me up early one morning and asked if I'd work the job.
I hadn't made the MN engineer roster (not enough seniority to hold one
of the original positions), and the first thing I told the crew guy was
that I was laid off. His reply was, "don't worry, you'll get paid".
So, I reported for the job. The first leg of the job was to deadhead the Washboard set from Stamford to New Canaan. I'd never run them before,
and I actually had to get the conductor to show me how to cut the brake
valve in. Once that was done, I did well enough, got them to New Canaan
and parked them "in the middle" for their shuttle work later in the day.
So I actually worked as a MN engineer -- and got paid as one.
I still have a copy of the timeslip in my records!
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