The stub end of the line at 42/Time Sq was my favorite place to spot west side line trains moving in the tunnel. The uptown 1 train almost touchable from there while passing threw the S curve, the distant downtown 1 train barely visible, the sound of pneumatic train control system... I could easily spend an hour there leaning towards the railing and looking into the tunnel. Also my favorite entry/exit point on the Time Sq when in rush as much less used than the others around. Already missing it now!
I worked for the MTA at Times Square/ Grand Central for 37 years and i learned things in this vid i did not know.One off topic point..on the T.S. side,under the shuttle platform was a whole other large mezzinie area.I got down there in Early 2000 during the rehab.somehiw it served shuttle passengers but little is m ow about it.i believe it closed during the fire you mentioned.Great Video
Used to be a building engineer in the building right above the shuttle in Grand Central.It was the old Vanderbuilt Hotel,also known as 51 East 42nd street.Just like the old door to the Knickerbocker the basement was all mosaic tile with 2 glass doors.You were able to walk from the shuttleright into the basement then up into the lobby of the old hotel.It was a beautiful building with so much history.Lucky to me I was able to save a 107 year old relic from inside the lobby wall witch was a glass door from the old Hethringtons Soda Ice cream shop.That was where the present day Modells was before they tore the building down.So much history now gone forever..............................
Thank you so much for the history lesson, there's much I didn't know. What makes me depressed is that I don't think I have any videos of the 1/2/3 trains from that gap in the wall at Times Square. It was really a one of a kind place. Back around 2000 when I was four and five years old I had great times viewing the trains pass, especially the uptown local which was incredibly close. I also liked seeing the light from the shuttle platforms on the way in and out when riding the 7th Avenue line. I don't think there's any other place in America like that
I am a light rail train operator for Trimet, In Portland Oregon. I love these videos! I am hoping to visit New York in November. My first item to tour is of course the Subway system. Thanks to all for the hard work towards making these documentaries.
I remember riding the shuttle with my mom when I was young. I thought it was neat that all the train did was go back and forth, east side to west side. The shuttle came to mind not too long ago; I'm so glad that I found this video on YT. Thank you so much for making it. Brings back the memories.
I’m kind of upset I didn’t know of the closing of this area. I would have loved to take a last walk around. I rarely used the shuttle but also didn’t know about the history. I hope the Knickerbocker door or sign will be preserved.
As a child, I always wonder why the Uptown #1 train went slower and took a slightly different route from the rest of the IRT tracks. Now I see why. The uptown local track swings hard right to negotiate into that old tunnel section. Than it realigns right back next to the Express track beside it. I also notice the downtown express comes to a crawl after 50th Street. But the downtown local doesn't seem to be affected. I wonder why? I would see a station while we pass this point on the uptown local. You can tell how the tunnels are built, that the original alignment was this station. By the way, the Time Square station received a big update in the 1990s. Traveling to the number 7 to 8th Avenue when they first opened it, was extremely difficult before the reconstruction. The 8th Avenue connection did not exist in 1980s and before. But transferring from the #7 was a series of tunnels and escalators. So the shuttle was much easier to use than the #7.
That Saxophone playing around 4:50 is awesome! Great history lesson - so many dated pieces of history here. I rode this line twice on two separate trips to NYC. Wish I had this info two years ago!
Thank you for making this video documenting the history of the IRT. There is an abandoned trackway next to the local track that connects to the downtown local on the east side. That explains why the passageway to the Lexington Ave trains resembles a tunnel.
I remember taking the shuttle from the east side Lexington Ave subway to the west side 7th Ave subway on my way to high school in the morning and the reverse after school. They were using the Low vs at the time. I also remember the concession stands at the Times Square side of the shuttle. The renovation are going to wipe out the rich history of the 42hd Street shuttle.
@@craig3652 I'm a Transit employee when I worked at Times Square I had to use the bathroom in the track quarters and then one of the doors on that platform leads to that underpass. It's just dark and full of Steel dust everywhere. Lots of old track supplies are still down there.
One thing I would also add (and is also fading fast from the system), was the IRT's habit of their signals having the red lens in the middle, and the yellow lens on the bottom. There are a few of these old-style IRT automatic signals still strewn about the system, mainly on the Lexington Avenue Line, but they're usually located in between stations, and are not as visible to the public eye as these signals on the Shuttle were. I'll miss operating on the Shuttle. Glad I had the chance to a number of years ago.
That ATC equipment at around 10:20 is absolutely fascinating! A 35mm slide projector and a film loop, with maybe a couple of telephone stepper relays hiding behind the film loop. I wonder if there is any information available on what that was set up to do and how it worked.
One hell of a history lesson! I took this line for 14 years and I was always curious about the little gadgets and things like, whatever happened to track #2? I appreciate the good work!
Had they installed the 1960s pulse code automatic train operation system on the subway East side and West side IRT line it's likely to have undergone another update in the late 1990s up to now into CBTC. The same phenomenon happened to London Victoria line where it has the same pulsecode signaling but upgraded to CBTC 2009-2013.
Great information on the shuttle. I rode it a number of times during visits to NYC in the 70's. Thanks for making another great video. Cheers from Wisconsin.
Very sad to see all this history go. Hopefully some more video can be taken before it’s all gone. Because of the current quarantine I can’t go and have a last look for myself😕
Great video sir. Thanks for the wealth of information. Hopefully with the shuttle currently shut down they’re getting ahead of schedule on the rebuild. I’d love to see a video of the current progress.
These videos you make are not unimportant. I think they really matter for people who are trying to get around and will eventually be appreciated for their historical value showing the system's evolution
This was a great documentary video Dj! Slow down the captions to allow us old folks to read it without stopping the video... keep up the great footage hope to see more from you on our world's great subway NYC Transit 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
In Tom Clancy's The Division 1, there is a Times Square mission where you go down to gun fight on the Shuttle platform and you leave thru the Track 4 exit. Going to be very sad when construction finishes but at least a video game keeps the faithful shuttle design I grew up with 😁
@4:28 It still is the standard for new construction, though maybe a bit more refined for reduced vibration... But they really should be installing it as the tunnel track bed and ties are renewed, I do get rather annoyed seeing the wood tie blocks replaced with newer wooden tie blocks...
Hi everyone. Is the stub end with the view of the West Side Line tunnel still accessible? As I'm far far away from NYC (Czechia, Europe), it's not possible to document it myself (also COVID-19 related as there's the travel ban now). May I ask someone with good low light video camera to shoot some steady footage (not too much walking/zooming/panning) of the 1,2,3 trains passing by? Something like long steady view with manually fixed focus (it tends to re-focus frequently thanks to the headlights and reflections on the stainless steel side of the cars) of the "window" to let several uptown and downtown trains pass by?
I never really hung around the station for far too long since I’m usually trying to catch a train elsewhere but I always got a vibe I was sent back to time. But amazing research well done. Just wish the text stayed on longer as I was trying to see some of what you were showing as well as read at the same time.
The technoogy is amazing. I wondered if Union Switch & Signal was still around. I guess so. Lackawanna used their equipment on their railroad. It's great stuff.
Great piece of history. Brings back lots of memories. Wonder why they couldn't have "saved" the shuttle line as another museum piece? Open up the covered tracks and return it to what it was like on opening day in 1904. The shuttle and the City Hall Loop Station are really the last true remnants of NYC's first subway. The 7 Line downstairs runs between GCT and Times Square and oculd be used for daily traffic.
Excellent! Make more fact filled documentary videos, please! Perhaps, the eastern end of the Myrtle Avenue line, the history of the Franklin Ave shuttle, the West End line in and around 9th Avenue, City Hall/South Ferry, Brighton Beach line from the steam railroad days, and LIRR/Jamaica line interchange as well as the Rockaway line history. Again, thanks for being so creative.
Thanks - nice video - personally I wish they were keeping three shuttles for rush hour - one always loading at each end and one in transit. We shall see...
I think they could actually run 4 trains if Tracks 2 and 3 were kept operational. It also would allow for more operational flexibility. For a 4 train operation, there would be 2 pairs of trains that load on the same platforms. The trains would pass each other in the middle. For a 3 train operation, there would be 2 trains on one pair of tracks loading simultaneously at either end and meeting in the middle, but one train running on it's own track and the extra train would be parked on either track 2 or 3. For 2 train operation, each train would go back and forth on its own track, and the extra 2 trains would be parked on the middle tracks. For 1 train operation, only one track would be in use with a train going back and forth.
@@arielgonzalez5296 When the brand new R262/as comes for CBTC the R142as will be back on the Pelham 6 line and the R262as mix equipments on the Pelham line while the R262s goes on the 1 3 trains and the 4 5 2 trains gets a couple of the R262/as. The 1 3 trains will get the R142s. The Flushing line is not getting no brand new R262as just the R188s R142as are staying put on the Flushing 7 line.
Clorox Bleach my apologies. Track 1&3 are serviced at Westchester as they are connected to the East Side IRT. (4/5/6 Lines) Track 4 is serviced at Livonia as it is connected to the West Side IRT (1/2/3 Lines)
Wow ! What a cornucopia/plethora of riches. You are a walking encyclopaedia. I didn't know that the shuttle was going to be redone until tonight. One thing is really bothering me though. I'm a track layout nut, and love track diagrams. In the beginning of this video, the track diagram in this video shows track 1 running into the WEST SIDE of the southbound Lexington Ave line for a connection. In Peter Dougherty's 'Tracks of the New York City Subway' , 2011 issue, he shows that shuttle track 1 runs over Lexington Local S/B track 1, and then joins it from it EAST SIDE ????!! What the hell ? I saw another of your Lexington Ave. videos, and I did see that the shuttle came in from the WEST SIDE. I was shocked. I asked Peter about it, but he never got back to me. Somehow, I do remember that Peter's diagram was correct. Did they shuffle the tracks ? This question is driving me nuts. Am I losing my mind ? Could you email me at peltomaa.aarre@gmail.com, if you would wish. Maybe you have the answer. Aarre Peltomaa of Mississauga, Ontario. p.s. I rode all 26 subway lines and shuttles end to end in the summer of 1974. I started in the early afternoon, and finished in the evening. The project took me 2 weeks. p.p.s What happened to your older whole line end to end videos ?? I can't find most of them anymore.
I just asked one of the contractor on Monday about the view and he said that the next contact they will bring the view back again sonna or later. A tounds of people asking for that view and they are gonna definitely work on that I'm telling you. What i just read on the shuttle times square 42 street they are gonna put elevators and escalators and the Art work also.
Oh wow, I've been hearing about the project for years now but it for whatever reason was never clear that track 3 is being abandoned and covered. Track 4 platform gonna be completely abandoned as well or will the area be blocked from Track 1 and 4's view and used as office space or what not?
I was in NYC in July 2016. I remember taking the S, from Grand Central to 42nd Street, and there was a group of three or four people on the train who broke out into song, singing "Killing me softly" by Roberta Flack. That was such an interesting experience on the S train in NYC.
Will the R62A on the 42 street shuttle go to the 6 line to remove to former 240 street r62a back to the 1 line right now the westchester yard has 440 car and 240th street has 365 cars it could be a good idea
Wakko Kakko There will be no connection between track 1 and 4. Trains on the line operate independently on each of the two tracks (I.e, back and forth on that track).
nice I like seeing the cars with the LED also if you please can respond to my question | \/ Do you know at what time the 7 ash train runs or comes out?
At night, the 7 ash train also runs along the flushing line and astoria lines (astoria meaning (N), (W) lines lol) and it operates between 3 to 6 or 5am i think, if running at 12am or 11pm thats rare.
Many people, some not yet born, will thank you for this documentation. Well done!
Thanks for the history lesson! That was very well done and very entertaining!
The stub end of the line at 42/Time Sq was my favorite place to spot west side line trains moving in the tunnel. The uptown 1 train almost touchable from there while passing threw the S curve, the distant downtown 1 train barely visible, the sound of pneumatic train control system... I could easily spend an hour there leaning towards the railing and looking into the tunnel. Also my favorite entry/exit point on the Time Sq when in rush as much less used than the others around. Already missing it now!
The curved track of Times Square reminds me of the South Ferry loop. Miss that station
Of course it left me feeling like Prince John from Robin Hood Men In Tights: "I HOPE IT'S WORTH THE NOISE!!!"
Hell yeah. I used to ride every subway 1st stop to last growing up and remember that very well!
Extremely well researched!! You taught me stuff I never knew about the shuttle, and I've been a Subway fan for decades!!! Thank you!
The Pedestrian Bridge is one of the things that got me hooked to MTA subway transit
I worked for the MTA at Times Square/ Grand Central for 37 years and i learned things in this vid i did not know.One off topic point..on the T.S. side,under the shuttle platform was a whole other large mezzinie area.I got down there in Early 2000 during the rehab.somehiw it served shuttle passengers but little is m ow about it.i believe it closed during the fire you mentioned.Great Video
I've ridden the line countless times and never noticed some of the signaling pointed out. Thanks for posting
Used to be a building engineer in the building right above the shuttle in Grand Central.It was the old Vanderbuilt Hotel,also known as 51 East 42nd street.Just like the old door to the Knickerbocker the basement was all mosaic tile with 2 glass doors.You were able to walk from the shuttleright into the basement then up into the lobby of the old hotel.It was a beautiful building with so much history.Lucky to me I was able to save a 107 year old relic from inside the lobby wall witch was a glass door from the old Hethringtons Soda Ice cream shop.That was where the present day Modells was before they tore the building down.So much history now gone forever..............................
Thank you so much for the history lesson, there's much I didn't know. What makes me depressed is that I don't think I have any videos of the 1/2/3 trains from that gap in the wall at Times Square. It was really a one of a kind place. Back around 2000 when I was four and five years old I had great times viewing the trains pass, especially the uptown local which was incredibly close. I also liked seeing the light from the shuttle platforms on the way in and out when riding the 7th Avenue line. I don't think there's any other place in America like that
5:27 that brown rectangle box. There used to be a manual switch where a person stood there and controlled the gap fillers.
Extremely well done. Bravo!
I've been taking the shuttle for 17 years and it's doing way better.
I like the ad’s on the shuttle that appear sometimes
pop up ads when ur train comes the ads pop up
@ItsBob WHEN IT ROLLS IN THEY POP IN
Virginity he means they come and you see the ads like actual pop up ads
I like your channel man. Not many People are interested about subways or the history it seems but I surely am. So thank you for your work.
I am a light rail train operator for Trimet, In Portland Oregon. I love these videos! I am hoping to visit New York in November. My first item to tour is of course the Subway system. Thanks to all for the hard work towards making these documentaries.
I remember riding the shuttle with my mom when I was young. I thought it was neat that all the train did was go back and forth, east side to west side. The shuttle came to mind not too long ago; I'm so glad that I found this video on YT. Thank you so much for making it. Brings back the memories.
Terrific video. Thank you. Appreciate the details, clear captions and nice photography.
It’s been 2 months I haven’t rode that line now. Hopefully once COVID-19 washes ashore, I’ll make the last of the 42nd Street Shuttle worth the ride
Very informative tour, pointing out lots of interesting aspects of the line.
I’m kind of upset I didn’t know of the closing of this area. I would have loved to take a last walk around. I rarely used the shuttle but also didn’t know about the history. I hope the Knickerbocker door or sign will be preserved.
But couples of tracks are still open. Their gonna to do station repairs for wheelchair acessbilty
I literally only rode it once
I rode on it just for fun, I never needed to use the S shuttle I’m glad I got a chance to experience it
Sean션사랑로사나 I’m glad u enjoyed
Ariel Gonzalez thank you 😊
As a child, I always wonder why the Uptown #1 train went slower and took a slightly different route from the rest of the IRT tracks. Now I see why. The uptown local track swings hard right to negotiate into that old tunnel section. Than it realigns right back next to the Express track beside it. I also notice the downtown express comes to a crawl after 50th Street. But the downtown local doesn't seem to be affected. I wonder why? I would see a station while we pass this point on the uptown local. You can tell how the tunnels are built, that the original alignment was this station.
By the way, the Time Square station received a big update in the 1990s. Traveling to the number 7 to 8th Avenue when they first opened it, was extremely difficult before the reconstruction. The 8th Avenue connection did not exist in 1980s and before. But transferring from the #7 was a series of tunnels and escalators. So the shuttle was much easier to use than the #7.
That Saxophone playing around 4:50 is awesome! Great history lesson - so many dated pieces of history here. I rode this line twice on two separate trips to NYC. Wish I had this info two years ago!
Sir Duke!
Thank you for making this video documenting the history of the IRT. There is an abandoned trackway next to the local track that connects to the downtown local on the east side. That explains why the passageway to the Lexington Ave trains resembles a tunnel.
Correct that you are and my dad work for the MTA as a train motorman
I remember taking the shuttle from the east side Lexington Ave subway to the west side 7th Ave subway on my way to high school in the morning and the reverse after school. They were using the Low vs at the time. I also remember the concession stands at the Times Square side of the shuttle. The renovation are going to wipe out the rich history of the 42hd Street shuttle.
Thank you for this video. I rode the shuttle daily in the 60s and early 70s. I remember the automated train and the devastating fire.
The underpass is still intact. I was down there a few years back.
how'd it look down there? I'm from Boston, the T has a few of these abandoned passageways as well, but I know the NYC Subway has a lot more.
@@craig3652 I'm a Transit employee when I worked at Times Square I had to use the bathroom in the track quarters and then one of the doors on that platform leads to that underpass. It's just dark and full of Steel dust everywhere. Lots of old track supplies are still down there.
Yay, the tours are back!
Very interesting and comprehensive presentation. Hope that it will remain available in more scholarly portals than YT.
Fantasic video!!!
Thank you for the historical insight on the shuttle!
Great Video!!! One of the very best!
Thanks
Thank you so very much for making this video. It will be a sad day when all this history is gone.
One thing I would also add (and is also fading fast from the system), was the IRT's habit of their signals having the red lens in the middle, and the yellow lens on the bottom. There are a few of these old-style IRT automatic signals still strewn about the system, mainly on the Lexington Avenue Line, but they're usually located in between stations, and are not as visible to the public eye as these signals on the Shuttle were.
I'll miss operating on the Shuttle. Glad I had the chance to a number of years ago.
That ATC equipment at around 10:20 is absolutely fascinating! A 35mm slide projector and a film loop, with maybe a couple of telephone stepper relays hiding behind the film loop. I wonder if there is any information available on what that was set up to do and how it worked.
One hell of a history lesson! I took this line for 14 years and I was always curious about the little gadgets and things like, whatever happened to track #2? I appreciate the good work!
Had they installed the 1960s pulse code automatic train operation system on the subway East side and West side IRT line it's likely to have undergone another update in the late 1990s up to now into CBTC. The same phenomenon happened to London Victoria line where it has the same pulsecode signaling but upgraded to CBTC 2009-2013.
Great information on the shuttle. I rode it a number of times during visits to NYC in the 70's. Thanks for making another great video. Cheers from Wisconsin.
Thanks for the history trip! I will always remember this line.
This is a great and informative video, thank you! Wowww! I've been in this station complex a bunch (and even taken the Shuttle a few times).
Awesome video. Thank you
After two and a half months home due to Covid-19, while watching this video I realized that I miss riding the subway.
Very sad to see all this history go. Hopefully some more video can be taken before it’s all gone. Because of the current quarantine I can’t go and have a last look for myself😕
Really informative video, thanks DJ!
Great video!
Great video sir. Thanks for the wealth of information. Hopefully with the shuttle currently shut down they’re getting ahead of schedule on the rebuild. I’d love to see a video of the current progress.
This is one of my favorite videos you’ve made 👍🏻
These videos you make are not unimportant. I think they really matter for people who are trying to get around and will eventually be appreciated for their historical value showing the system's evolution
Is it safe there, with lots of security
This was a great documentary video Dj! Slow down the captions to allow us old folks to read it without stopping the video... keep up the great footage hope to see more from you on our world's great subway NYC Transit 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Very impressive subway scholarship! Been there many times..
Very good video. Thanks.
In Tom Clancy's The Division 1, there is a Times Square mission where you go down to gun fight on the Shuttle platform and you leave thru the Track 4 exit.
Going to be very sad when construction finishes but at least a video game keeps the faithful shuttle design I grew up with 😁
Imma miss track 3. I would use the 43rd St and bway entrance and easily hop on a train at there
@4:28 It still is the standard for new construction, though maybe a bit more refined for reduced vibration... But they really should be installing it as the tunnel track bed and ties are renewed, I do get rather annoyed seeing the wood tie blocks replaced with newer wooden tie blocks...
Very interesting I rode on it many times..
I never rode this Shuttle train before, but this is interesting to watch.
Going to miss the old shuttle, even though I mostly use the 7 Train.
Well, the shuttle train will run except late nights
Great video. Lots of things I never knew.
Hi everyone. Is the stub end with the view of the West Side Line tunnel still accessible? As I'm far far away from NYC (Czechia, Europe), it's not possible to document it myself (also COVID-19 related as there's the travel ban now). May I ask someone with good low light video camera to shoot some steady footage (not too much walking/zooming/panning) of the 1,2,3 trains passing by? Something like long steady view with manually fixed focus (it tends to re-focus frequently thanks to the headlights and reflections on the stainless steel side of the cars) of the "window" to let several uptown and downtown trains pass by?
very informative. well done!
Great video! At 6:34 - been a long time since seeing an old school IRT signal with red in the middle and yellow on the bottom.
I never really hung around the station for far too long since I’m usually trying to catch a train elsewhere but I always got a vibe I was sent back to time.
But amazing research well done. Just wish the text stayed on longer as I was trying to see some of what you were showing as well as read at the same time.
Thanks! Very cool!
The technoogy is amazing. I wondered if Union Switch & Signal was still around. I guess so. Lackawanna used their equipment on their railroad. It's great stuff.
I’m gonna miss it. I want to go one last time (my about 127th time) (will it still be incomplete by this summer?)
The entire shuttle is closed until the end of the year due to projected lower ridership following the reopening of the city.
JeremiahC99 oh thanks
If you take the 1,2, or 3 trains you can see the shuttle platform through the window
Once you get off on track 4 on the time square Shuttle you could still see the 1/2/3 trains passing by
thanks from Germany! great job!
Do you know that there is some empty carts on the 3 2 or A Train every single month
This was cool as hell! Can you do more history videos?
Great piece of history. Brings back lots of memories. Wonder why they couldn't have "saved" the shuttle line as another museum piece? Open up the covered tracks and return it to what it was like on opening day in 1904. The shuttle and the City Hall Loop Station are really the last true remnants of NYC's first subway. The 7 Line downstairs runs between GCT and Times Square and oculd be used for daily traffic.
Cats01 You saying that there should be no shuttle service because the S is a fairly busy and crowded line?
Excellent! Make more fact filled documentary videos, please! Perhaps, the eastern end of the Myrtle Avenue line, the history of the Franklin Ave shuttle, the West End line in and around 9th Avenue, City Hall/South Ferry, Brighton Beach line from the steam railroad days, and LIRR/Jamaica line interchange as well as the Rockaway line history. Again, thanks for being so creative.
Very informative.
Thanks - nice video - personally I wish they were keeping three shuttles for rush hour - one always loading at each end and one in transit. We shall see...
I think they could actually run 4 trains if Tracks 2 and 3 were kept operational. It also would allow for more operational flexibility. For a 4 train operation, there would be 2 pairs of trains that load on the same platforms. The trains would pass each other in the middle. For a 3 train operation, there would be 2 trains on one pair of tracks loading simultaneously at either end and meeting in the middle, but one train running on it's own track and the extra train would be parked on either track 2 or 3. For 2 train operation, each train would go back and forth on its own track, and the extra 2 trains would be parked on the middle tracks. For 1 train operation, only one track would be in use with a train going back and forth.
The only Shuttle train left is in Brooklyn where it goes from Franklin Avenue to Prospect Park. It only has four stops, and that’s it.
MTN Productions They also have the Rockaway Park Shuttle train as well (though that is scheduled as part of A and C train service).
RIP old IRT equipment. End of an era. 😢
I don't think so. Their gonna to do renovations for wheelchair acessbilty, and extend the fleet cars to 6 for more passengers
Those 62s aren't going anywhere just yet. Not until the R262s come in within the decade.
@@arielgonzalez5296 When the brand new R262/as comes for CBTC the R142as will be back on the Pelham 6 line and the R262as mix equipments on the Pelham line while the R262s goes on the 1 3 trains and the 4 5 2 trains gets a couple of the R262/as. The 1 3 trains will get the R142s. The Flushing line is not getting no brand new R262as just the R188s R142as are staying put on the Flushing 7 line.
We have to deal with the R62as on the 1 6 S lines and the R62S on the 3 line that used to run on the Jorome Avenue 4 line.
Wee! Cool the shuttle is now getting better! :D
What yard is the 42 shuttle stored at
Clorox Bleach Westchester for the track connected to 4/5/6 and Livonia for the two connected to the 1/2/3
Livonia Yard
Interstate Railfan you mean for track 4/5/6 it goes to Westchester for Track 1/2/3 it goes to Livonia
Clorox Bleach my apologies. Track 1&3 are serviced at Westchester as they are connected to the East Side IRT. (4/5/6 Lines) Track 4 is serviced at Livonia as it is connected to the West Side IRT (1/2/3 Lines)
I have been to both yards yes Westchester yard & Livonia yard sometimes 249 yard
SO COOOL THX FOR THE HISTORY!!
I was waiting. For this video from
You DJ hammers
Terrific vid! Are they eliminating the 43rd and Broadway Exit?
David Wilder That exit was closed since October. There will be a new entrance several feet away.
i love this man
I fell lucky that I had went to take photos of the 42st shuttle before Its rebuilt
Wow ! What a cornucopia/plethora of riches. You are a walking encyclopaedia. I didn't know that the shuttle was going to be redone until tonight. One thing is really bothering me though. I'm a track layout nut, and love track diagrams. In the beginning of this video, the track diagram in this video shows track 1 running into the WEST SIDE of the southbound Lexington Ave line for a connection. In Peter Dougherty's 'Tracks of the New York City Subway' , 2011 issue, he shows that shuttle track 1 runs over Lexington Local S/B track 1, and then joins it from it EAST SIDE ????!! What the hell ? I saw another of your Lexington Ave. videos, and I did see that the shuttle came in from the WEST SIDE. I was shocked. I asked Peter about it, but he never got back to me. Somehow, I do remember that Peter's diagram was correct. Did they shuffle the tracks ? This question is driving me nuts. Am I losing my mind ?
Could you email me at peltomaa.aarre@gmail.com, if you would wish. Maybe you have the answer.
Aarre Peltomaa of Mississauga, Ontario.
p.s. I rode all 26 subway lines and shuttles end to end in the summer of 1974. I started in the early afternoon, and finished in the evening. The project took me 2 weeks.
p.p.s What happened to your older whole line end to end videos ?? I can't find most of them anymore.
Very interesting , thanks a lot .
wait so is the connection between the shuttle and Broadway-7th Ave Line gonna be walled off?
Yep
Dj Hammers why
Yes it's walled off for right now until the next contact.
I just asked one of the contractor on Monday about the view and he said that the next contact they will bring the view back again sonna or later. A tounds of people asking for that view and they are gonna definitely work on that I'm telling you. What i just read on the shuttle times square 42 street they are gonna put elevators and escalators and the Art work also.
Is the shuttle being converted to CBTC? Or is it going to remain fixed block with upgraded signals?
Probably CBTC-compatable block signals with sparse blocks like the Flushing Line extension in preparation for the R262s which will have CBTC.
Oh wow, I've been hearing about the project for years now but it for whatever reason was never clear that track 3 is being abandoned and covered. Track 4 platform gonna be completely abandoned as well or will the area be blocked from Track 1 and 4's view and used as office space or what not?
Yeah, the platform for Track 4 at Times Square will be closed and likely converted to offices.
This is very good information and I wondered about that illuminated thingy
Oof damn nice I already thankfully got some clips of it
I was in NYC in July 2016. I remember taking the S, from Grand Central to 42nd Street, and there was a group of three or four people on the train who broke out into song, singing "Killing me softly" by Roberta Flack. That was such an interesting experience on the S train in NYC.
Will the R62A on the 42 street shuttle go to the 6 line to remove to former 240 street r62a back to the 1 line right now the westchester yard has 440 car and 240th street has 365 cars it could be a good idea
I have to ask, how did you hear about this reconstruction? I would’ve loved to have been able to see it one last time.
U can search here on UA-cam
NOO FIRST THE R42 NOW THE SHUTTLE THISIS MY NIGHTMARE COME TRUE
So a more efficient shuttle operation is your nightmare?
RIP track 3
Nice vid very interesting
Will there be any track connection between Track 1 and Track 4?
Wakko Kakko There will be no connection between track 1 and 4. Trains on the line operate independently on each of the two tracks (I.e, back and forth on that track).
Comparing the Grand Central station to the Times Square station is night and day
When are they beginning the reconstruction?
It already did stared the construction
nice I like seeing the cars with the LED also if you please can respond to my question
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Do you know at what time the 7 ash train runs or comes out?
At night, the 7 ash train also runs along the flushing line and astoria lines (astoria meaning (N), (W) lines lol) and it operates between 3 to 6 or 5am i think, if running at 12am or 11pm thats rare.
7 ash usually leaves Corona Yard around 10pm-12am
@@DJHTransport oh cool lol keep up the good videos!
Dj Hammers alright thanks!