by NaugyRR
This may seem like a totally ignorant question, but please bear with this uncivilized ignorant country bumpkin, haha.
This past Saturday my Dad and took a trip down to the city on one of his visits from Lake George. We decided on going to the Natural History Museum, a trip I've made several times.
I'm curious, with the AMNH being as popular a destination as it is (the line was HUGE Saturday around noon), why don't A-Trains stop there? Taking a wild guess, I'd say it has to do with the station layout (over-under), and with only platforms on the local tracks. It just seems like the C's are less frequent than the A's; I think there were two or three A's stopping at 42nd Street before we were able to catch a C.
One other observation I made is that the C doesn't seem to get the pick of the litter for trains does it? We caught an R32 going uptown, man those things aren't pretty, haha. It was kinda cool riding in the last car and watching the view out the RFW though. We did catch an R160 back downtown; I could get really used to those. The active destination signs are really helpful, especially when you can't always make out the station signage in a crowded car or get blessed with a buggy intercom.
This past Saturday my Dad and took a trip down to the city on one of his visits from Lake George. We decided on going to the Natural History Museum, a trip I've made several times.
I'm curious, with the AMNH being as popular a destination as it is (the line was HUGE Saturday around noon), why don't A-Trains stop there? Taking a wild guess, I'd say it has to do with the station layout (over-under), and with only platforms on the local tracks. It just seems like the C's are less frequent than the A's; I think there were two or three A's stopping at 42nd Street before we were able to catch a C.
One other observation I made is that the C doesn't seem to get the pick of the litter for trains does it? We caught an R32 going uptown, man those things aren't pretty, haha. It was kinda cool riding in the last car and watching the view out the RFW though. We did catch an R160 back downtown; I could get really used to those. The active destination signs are really helpful, especially when you can't always make out the station signage in a crowded car or get blessed with a buggy intercom.
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