R36 NY Worlds Fair

R36 Combine Coach wrote:

tjensen wrote:Sweet. I feel like crap that I didn't go on the trip. Is the June 8th one really $100???

$50 adult/$25 child.

Here's another bonus from today: the "Seinfeld train".

Ok thanks. That's much much more reasonable

Cool photo btw.

Here are some other wrap-arounds I've seen:

T-Mobile (Of all cars WHY DID THEY WRAP 1970???!!!!!)

Here are the side-ads I've seen:

Monroe College
Sleepys
I think ING or something was one of them
and many many many many more-this was a couple years ago so I can't remember for sure what they were

Note: Saw the Seinfeld wrap today (5/20/14)

Bear in mind the paid ones do weed out some of the more annoying types who will gladly waste a day trolling around for a metrocard swipe but not a $50 nostalgia ride

Lol actually kind of a good idea they administer the ride with extra fees-It'll keep the vandals out

If by vandals you mean annoying foamers who incessantly change rollsigns to fantasy routes.

Here's 9586 and 9587 at the NYTM, on temporary display for the 50th anniversary of the World's Fair. They'll return to their home line (the 7) on June 8 in their first official passenger run as part of the museum fleet. Delivered 12/1963, refurbished April 2014

9587
9587
9586 interior
9587 interior
Original turquoise on 9586
9587 cab
9587
9586
9586

R36 Combine Coach wrote:Here's 9586 and 9587 at the NYTM, on temporary display for the 50th anniversary of the World's Fair. They'll return to their home line (the 7) on June 8 in their first official passenger run as part of the museum fleet. Delivered 12/1963, refurbished April 2014

9587
9587
9586 interior
9587 interior
Original turquoise on 9586
9587 cab
9587
9586
9586

Wow those are awesome. My favorite has got to be the one with the turquoise, Is that the original paint? How did it survive this long like that?

runningwithscalpels wrote:If by vandals you mean annoying foamers who incessantly change rollsigns to fantasy routes.

I wouldn't call myself a foamer but I can't tell you how many times Ive tried to fight back the urge to take out an allen key and reset the 7 line rollsign to that of a 2 train. It's so hard not to but I've resisted the urge (Thus far)

I consider vandalism as: scratchitti (I mean who cares about the weird garbage etched into the windows), graffiti (This drives me FREAKING INSANE), destruction of train (WHY???) and playing with the god damn doors

tjensen wrote:

R36 Combine Coach wrote:Here's 9586 and 9587 at the NYTM, on temporary display for the 50th anniversary of the World's Fair. They'll return to their home line (the 7) on June 8 in their first official passenger run as part of the museum fleet. Delivered 12/1963, refurbished April 2014

9587
9587
9586 interior
9587 interior
Original turquoise on 9586
9587 cab
9587
9586
9586

Wow those are awesome. My favorite has got to be the one with the turquoise, Is that the original paint? How did it survive this long like that?

The turquoise livery is the original World's Fair "Blue Arrow", which is what 9306 appears in. The R33/R36s on the 7 had this until the mid 1970s when some cars got the MTA silver/blue treatment and others lasting into the 1980s. See 9325 at the St. Louis Car assembly plant in September 1963, original press photo.

Im aware that the turquoise livery is the original; I was wondering if the car survived 20 something years in that livery without repainting.

I set the rollsigns on the R-17 at Branford to the original IRT routing once - but that doesn't annoy the ever loving crap out of people like it does on nostalgia trains

runningwithscalpels wrote:I set the rollsigns on the R-17 at Branford to the original IRT routing once - but that doesn't annoy the ever loving crap out of people like it does on nostalgia trains

Changing a rollsign to: 1 Bway Local 242 Street/Van cortlandt Park to South Ferry (for example) is a good thing

But when ppl change it to this (i really saw this-it was a D train): S Special Broad Street , then theres something wrong

The NYTM locks their rollsigns anyway so you can't turn them

If anyone didn't find it yet, here's a document worth noting that I found on the R33/R36 website: http://www.coronayard.com/r36preservati ... pecial.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

TO THE ROCKAWAYS BY RAIL

Sun, Aug 3, 11am – Tickets
$50/$25 Adult/Child
$35/$20 Adult/Child Museum Members

Take a trip back in time to the Rockaways in this rare opportunity to ride on the Museum’s post-war fleet of cars. The ride will end at Rockaway Park, and from there you can soak in some sun and take a swim at the beach. At 4:30 pm passengers can board the train to travel back along the A line.

Are they running the TOMC or are they running another set that I don't know about? The only post-war nostalgia sets I know of is the TOMC.

Here's the original link for reference: http://web.mta.info/mta/museum/programs.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Highlights of the R33/R36 World's Fair excursion on 6/8/14:

-9587 was the south operating cab, with 9306 at the north.

9587 arriving at Times Square
9587 arriving at Willets Point
WIllets Point
9306
9587
Cab of 9587
9587 back at Times Square Note the round IDENTRA antennae at left.
Departing for the day

to answer all of tjensen's questions at once:

9306 was retired to the Transit Museum at an early age in 1976. She never got repainted or rebuilt. However, other cars could just as easily be restored to the look with a few hours in a paint booth. That's what happened with the rest of the train, hence the "Many Colors" bit.

One trip this year will be run with the BMT SMEE fleet from what rumors have said, so to say the TOMC is the only post war museum train is no longer correct.

WHAT????!!!!!!!! will the BMT SMEE train be the rockaways one this summer??????

Oh my god the MTA gods have answered my prayers

Thanks you so much for posting that (no sarcasm intended. Really)

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