oh thank you sooooo much for this! this was before my time but I looooove seeing stuff like this. I always wondered what it looked like during the disco days. this should be PRESERVED FOREVER 💖💖💖
absolutly early 70s fantastic footage ! ( superkool223 , coc144,el marko174 ...) thanks you for the upload !! late 60s and early70s pionners writers queens and kings !
You can see the construction of the Sheridan Expressway on the left at the Whitlock station of the Pelham Bay Line just before going into the tunnel at Hunt's Point
There were (2) sets of layups if I recall back in the 70s: from Morrison-Soudview Aves to west of 177th St-Hugh Grant Circle, now Parkchester/177th St and from Middletown Rd to Buhre Ave
@@robroy6374 they used to have a layover tracks or storage until it was used by 6 express train during rush hour, which probably why this video takes place during middays (this was before January 13, 1980 that 6 express was expanded during midday hours)
This film appears to have been shot on a rarely seen format - Super 8 sound. It was normal super 8 film with a thin strip of magnetic tape on the edge. This film verifies that some SMEEs actually had a very low hum coming from the motors on initial acceleration. I was in my 20s when the general overhaul cars came out (then acquiring the name redbirds) with a much more distinct propulsion sound. I would swear that I never heard such sounds coming from any pre GOH cars (R-42 and older) which I rode many hundreds of time doing nothing but noticing every detail about them that I could see and hear. But this film proves me wrong, there was a sound just much lower than post GOH. The red cars were painted or re-painted that way into the late 1960s so they were the last to get the MTA silver and blue and by 1975 virtually all were finally repainted silver and blue. It took from well after the MTA was created March 1968 to 1975 to get to all of them. A big reason it took so long for them to get a handle on graffiti was that there was not enough storage capacity in the yards and trains had to be parked on express tracks. And besides there was no money for the many miles of tall yard fencing (topped with ribbon wire) that would later have to be paid out of early 1980s capital budgets. I love the atmospherics of the graffiti of my youth, but it was a terrible drain on a;ready poor service quality and helped accelerate ridership decline. Graffiti is not really a victimless crime when you are the one stuck on a broken train in 90 to 105 degree for an hour or two and you are late getting home to your unsupervised kids.
Back in the days, many subway cars were parked in middle track overnight and weekends that’s why there were so many graffiti problems that ruined these cars.. Today u almost never see them park there except some winter times (underground) do to frigid weather… those days they even had 5 car trains running during evenings and overnight and 7 cars on weekends.. Yes I was around, ( born. 1970) so I know..
oh thank you sooooo much for this! this was before my time but I looooove seeing stuff like this. I always wondered what it looked like during the disco days. this should be PRESERVED FOREVER 💖💖💖
This audio and footage is crisp as dawn
Ikr
absolutly early 70s fantastic footage ! ( superkool223 , coc144,el marko174 ...) thanks you for the upload !! late 60s and early70s pionners writers queens and kings !
Glad you enjoyed it
This just doesn't get any better than thus. Thanks this made my day
Glad you enjoyed! 🙏🏼
The 6! My line growing up, and the motorman at the end broke me in on the 6! Great guy!
Thank You for upload, I wasnt in NY even in USA but i like these trains 🙂
The lay up.. Crazy.. Writers paradise...
You can see the construction of the Sheridan Expressway on the left at the Whitlock station of the Pelham Bay Line just before going into the tunnel at Hunt's Point
The Sheridan Expressway was opened for traffic in 1963, so no, it was not "under construction" in this video. Just light traffic.
I remember these trains. I loved the door in the middle of the train cars.
awesome footage!
Thanks a lot!
@@thefluiddruid no prob
Bank cameras barely catching a few pixels
1970 pre goh subway car footage:
And that's the number 6 line because I live in Morrison and I'm right next to the six line! Jesus I wasn't even born in 73 and I born a year later.
1:01 just realized, WH motors sounds like.
Makes me think about the Gil-Scott Heron video "The Bottle"
Yes irt pelham line in the 70s
I really appreciate this
There were (2) sets of layups if I recall back in the 70s: from Morrison-Soudview Aves to west of 177th St-Hugh Grant Circle, now Parkchester/177th St and from Middletown Rd to Buhre Ave
This video is awesome ❤
🙏🏼
Thank you
My pleasure.
Wow, I was 8 years old here.
Those MoMos in the red bandanas!
They are probably dead or in prison.
@Jose Ortiz I thought they used to have their gang name in their back.
@Jose Ortiz could be. The young men look kinda shy...
No one’s gonna talk how long the train is on the express track💀
I said the same thing...lol
are you serious? 🤦♂️ that was just a normal practice of train lay-ups/storage on the middle track.
@@robroy6374 I was supposed to know that?
@@SickspeedJ35 yes, if you had an functional brain.
@@robroy6374 they used to have a layover tracks or storage until it was used by 6 express train during rush hour, which probably why this video takes place during middays (this was before January 13, 1980 that 6 express was expanded during midday hours)
This film appears to have been shot on a rarely seen format - Super 8 sound. It was normal super 8 film with a thin strip of magnetic tape on the edge. This film verifies that some SMEEs actually had a very low hum coming from the motors on initial acceleration. I was in my 20s when the general overhaul cars came out (then acquiring the name redbirds) with a much more distinct propulsion sound. I would swear that I never heard such sounds coming from any pre GOH cars (R-42 and older) which I rode many hundreds of time doing nothing but noticing every detail about them that I could see and hear. But this film proves me wrong, there was a sound just much lower than post GOH. The red cars were painted or re-painted that way into the late 1960s so they were the last to get the MTA silver and blue and by 1975 virtually all were finally repainted silver and blue. It took from well after the MTA was created March 1968 to 1975 to get to all of them. A big reason it took so long for them to get a handle on graffiti was that there was not enough storage capacity in the yards and trains had to be parked on express tracks. And besides there was no money for the many miles of tall yard fencing (topped with ribbon wire) that would later have to be paid out of early 1980s capital budgets. I love the atmospherics of the graffiti of my youth, but it was a terrible drain on a;ready poor service quality and helped accelerate ridership decline. Graffiti is not really a victimless crime when you are the one stuck on a broken train in 90 to 105 degree for an hour or two and you are late getting home to your unsupervised kids.
Next level knowledge
7:40 Actual NYC gang members.
Alas liked the red train
why are there at least 68 cars together in beginning? Can someone explain?
Back in the days, many subway cars were parked in middle track overnight and weekends that’s why there were so many graffiti problems that ruined these cars.. Today u almost never see them park there except some winter times (underground) do to frigid weather… those days they even had 5 car trains running during evenings and overnight and 7 cars on weekends.. Yes I was around, ( born. 1970) so I know..
wait did you count all that? 🏃🏼💀🗣🗣🔥🔥🤯
I'm Efing glad those days are long gone..
far more interesting than today though.
@@robroy6374Nah
@@smashfan9549 yes.
First train Vlog lol
Lol! Might just be.
7:27 ... Future b-boys!
Would be dope to find out that it really is the case.
You don't suppose this is Pelham One Two Three, do you?")
Of course that's the 6 line
well duh.
Ha ha @c!d no