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Viewing Album: Dad in transit
By:
Tom Beckett
Dates:
1/1/1950 - 3/1/2012
Album Info:
Dad took a lot of photos all over, including on various forms of transit. He rode all over, and this album has shots mostly from New York, but also Boston, DC, and Toronto as well.
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Title:
Rear ~indow
Description:
We lived on 161st St in the Jamaica section of Queens til I was five. Our apartment was midway between the Queens IND and the Jam}ica Av BMT line. Dad worked at the NY Times, so we most often took the IND, but occasionally wed make a foray onto the BMT-more fun because it was elevated. This was taken from the rear window of a Brooklyn bound train at 160th St, looking back toward the terminal at 168th. Theres a train in the station there, most likely R 16s, which were common on that line then-I recall their round windows in the front doors. The line came down beyond Queens Blvd in the late 70s. This photo is from November 1963.
Photo Date:
11/16/1963
Upload Date:
9/21/2014 1:21:33 AM
Location:
Jamaica, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Signal,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
370
Comments:
1
Title:
Over the yard
Description:
Dad liked to get grab shots from the train as it passed Sunnyside Yard, and occasionally fate smiled on him, and he got something interesting. Today was one of those days. We see a Flushing bound IRT train passing over the yard on Queens Blvd, as work goes on at Yard A down below, as a LIRR S 2 goes through its chores.
Photo Date:
2/15/1965
Upload Date:
4/24/2016 4:51:51 AM
Location:
Long Island City, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Bridge,Yard,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
143
Comments:
1
Title:
Rawson St
Description:
My mom had several doctors in Manhattan. When she had an appointment, shed prefer to drive into the city(much to my chagrin when I got my license and she wanted to go to the city. I HATE driving in Manhattan-and I learned there) my dad would come out on the IRT to meet her, and he would drive in the rest of the way. That way he could watch us while she/had her appointment. Typically, hed come out to 33rd/Rawson St on the Flushing Line, which was convenient for a pick up, and to the 59th St bridge, which is how they went in, since the doctors were on the upper east side. Dad got this shot of a Main St bound train on the opposite side, as a Times Sq bound train approached in the distance.
Photo Date:
6/14/1965
Upload Date:
4/24/2016 4:48:34 AM
Location:
Long Island City, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
101
Comments:
0
Title:
Rockaway from the air
Description:
Another shot dad took from a plane-he was fond of shooting the NY area when he took off or landed-shows the Jamaica Bay area. The line at left is the NYCTA IND to Rockaway, seen here crossing the bay on Broad Channel. The station there is down at the clump of houses at the top center of the frame. The moveable bridge just before reaching Rockaway is still in place, and still working. This is the A train, which went to Far Rockaway, with service to Rockaway Park, at right on the peninsula, handled by a shuttle during the day and at night, and the E train during rush hours. At the time, it was double fare to ride here. The line was acquired by the NYCTA in 1954, after the LIRR abandoned it following one too many fires on the wooden trestle across the bay. It was rebuilt by the TA as a concrete viaduct.
Photo Date:
11/6/1967
Upload Date:
4/14/2016 3:48:30 AM
Location:
Broad Channel, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Scenic,Bridge,Track
Locomotives:
Views:
99
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0
Title:
Yard view
Description:
Another lomk at 207th St yard from the Harlem River, this time with an R 3A looking like it's headed for the scrapper, and new R 44s.
Photo Date:
8/16/1973
Upload Date:
2/29/2016 4:10:04 AM
Location:
Manhattan Inwood, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
RollingStock,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:
NYCTA 435(Electric M.U.)
Views:
193
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0
Title:
Something for everyone
Description:
Dads boat trip took him past 207th St yard, which had quite a variety of cars. In this view, there is an R1/9, R 10, R 42, an IRT car, probably an R 28; and a couple of IRT Low Vs, now in maintenance service.
Photo Date:
8/16/1973
Upload Date:
2/29/2016 4:07:15 AM
Location:
Manhattan Inwood, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
RollingStock,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:
NYCTA 3329(Electric M.U.)
NYCTA 67(Electric M.U.)
NYCTA 20383(Electric M.U.)
Views:
338
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0
Title:
Going nowhere
Description:
A red over red on the 8th Avenue line, and nobody is going anywhere.
Photo Date:
12/28/1973
Upload Date:
2/19/2016 4:48:44 AM
Location:
Manhattan, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Signal
Locomotives:
Views:
110
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0
Title:
Another day on the IRT
Description:
Dad was good at getting candid shots of just about everything, and the subway was no exception. We see a rider on the IRT doing what most of us do on the train. Read the paper, pass the time.
Photo Date:
1/12/1974
Upload Date:
2/20/2016 4:04:15 AM
Location:
Manhattan, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
138
Comments:
0
Title:
Sign of the times
Description:
The graffiti era in New York was in full swing in the 70s. The teens of the less advantaged parts of the city found they could "tag" subway cars pretty much at will, and often would spend several hours working on a train in a yard. The city, which had little money in those years-1974 was the year of the famous Daily News headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" and with bare bones security, many parts of the system were largely unattended. Some of the graffiti was quite artistid, but most of it was just someones street name. Dad caught this tag on a Flushing train.
Photo Date:
1/13/1974
Upload Date:
2/23/2016 4:32:00 AM
Location:
Flushing, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
RollingStock,Transit,Passenger
Locomotives:
Views:
115
Comments:
0
Title:
Coming in hot
Description:
The New York system put the "rapid" in rapid transit. The trains would come into a station at a pretty good clip, managing to stop at the end of the platform. Overshooting a station was rare-I almost never heard of it happening. This Times Square bound No 7 train arrives at Woodside.
Photo Date:
1/13/1974
Upload Date:
2/23/2016 4:35:04 AM
Location:
Woodside, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Night,Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
144
Comments:
0
Title:
Dyre Av Line
Description:
We took the IRT no 5 train to Dyre Av, once the NY Westchester & Boston. It was a marvelously engineered right of way, with wide tunnels. Dad caught this southbound train in one of the tunnels, I believe near the Esplanade station.
Photo Date:
2/11/1974
Upload Date:
12/5/2014 1:44:53 AM
Location:
Bronx, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Tunnel,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
169
Comments:
0
Title:
IRT snowplow
Description:
Believe it or not, the NYCTA has snowplows mounted on retired Low V cars. We spotted this one at 238th St yard on an ERA fantrip.
Photo Date:
3/10/1974
Upload Date:
12/4/2014 4:01:02 AM
Location:
Bronx, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:
NYCTA 38190(MoW Equipment)
Views:
318
Comments:
0
Title:
Portrait of the author as a subway nut
Description:
Yes, thats me in April 1974, just before by 15th birthday. I was on a quest to ride the entire NYCTA-not all at once-and dad would ride along with me to the Bronx, since he was a little jittery about me going up there alone at that time in history. I think he trusted me not to do anything stupid or dangerous, he just didnt want to hear a lot of crap about it from mom if anything unfortunate were to happen while I was on one of these jaunts. Anyway, thats me on the #5 Dyre Av line, at the last stop, waiting to head back to E 180th to ride the #2 up to 241st St.
Photo Date:
4/15/1974
Upload Date:
2/6/2016 3:40:35 AM
Location:
Bronx, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
209
Comments:
1
Title:
Baychester Av
Description:
The Dyre Av line was built on the abandoned right of way of the short lived-and marvelously appointed-NY Westchester & Boston, and electrified railroad that opened in 1913, and ceased operations in 1938. It was handicapped from the start by lack of a Manhattan terminal, its riders having to change to elevated trains in the south Bronx to reach midtown. It was lavishly built, with a wide right of way. The IRT, by then owned by the city, acquired it in 1941, building a connection from the White Plains Rd line at E 180th St. Were headed north at Baychester Av on a spring day in April 1974.
Photo Date:
4/15/1974
Upload Date:
2/6/2016 3:47:38 AM
Location:
Bronx, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Transit,Passenger,Track,Action
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Views:
154
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0
Title:
Morris Park
Description:
The IRT trackwork at Morris Park, where there were a pair of layup tracks on the beds of the NYW&B express tracks.
Photo Date:
4/15/1974
Upload Date:
2/6/2016 3:52:47 AM
Location:
Bronx, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Transit,Track
Locomotives:
Views:
188
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0
Title:
Yard leads
Description:
The leads to the 239th St yard on the White Plains Rd line. I always found the track layouts for such places fascinating, how they built it all essentially up on stilts. It was even more amazing that the IND did all of this work underground, such as on 53rd St between 5 Av and the 8th Av subway.
Photo Date:
4/15/1974
Upload Date:
2/6/2016 3:54:58 AM
Location:
Bronx, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Signal,Transit,Track
Locomotives:
Views:
213
Comments:
0
Title:
Jerome Av yard
Description:
We also rode the #4 Jerome Av Line to Woodlawn. Dad got this shot of the yard at the end of the line, mostly empty except for one train set. The rest are out on the line, as rush hour approaches.
Photo Date:
4/15/1974
Upload Date:
2/6/2016 3:56:28 AM
Location:
Bronx, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Yard,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
136
Comments:
0
Title:
Freeman St
Description:
On days off, or school vacations, dad and I would sometimes take off for some of the more far flung parts of the NYCTA, especially the Bronx, which at the time was, well, not the place you wanted to spend a lot of time. I was on a quest to ride all of the system at the time, and dad was sympathetic. He also had cautioned that if I wanted to go there, he wanted to go along, not that he questioned my judgement about riding to some parts of the city, but that if anything should happen, he knew hed never hear the end of it from my mom, who was worried about everything. I was with him on that one, because Id never hear the end of it either. In any event, here we see the Freeman St station coming up as we ride the No 5-Dyre Av train, in a view of classic NYCTA elevated tracks.
Photo Date:
4/15/1974
Upload Date:
2/15/2016 3:15:23 AM
Location:
Bronx, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Transit,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
157
Comments:
0
Title:
Going nowhere
Description:
A red signal on the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan is at stop. The trip arm next to the rail will prohibit any further movement til the signal clears.
Photo Date:
4/15/1974
Upload Date:
2/6/2016 4:00:59 AM
Location:
Manhattan, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Signal,Transit
Locomotives:
Views:
137
Comments:
0
Title:
Headed home for the night
Description:
Dad did a lot of photo shoots in Queens, for which the easy way to get to them was the Flushing Line. Hes on the platform at 61st St/Woodside as a Times Square bound #7 approaches.
Photo Date:
6/14/1974
Upload Date:
2/15/2016 3:19:23 AM
Location:
Woodside, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Night,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
113
Comments:
0
Title:
Waiting to go
Description:
The view toward the north end of the Main St station in Flushing as c Times Square bound #7 train waits for the signal to go.
Photo Date:
6/14/1974
Upload Date:
2/15/2016 3:24:53 AM
Location:
Flushing, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
117
Comments:
0
Title:
K train
Description:
A shot my dad took of the K train at 57 St/6 Av station, which was the Manhattan terminus of this route. The K ran rush hours only from here to Eastern Parkway on whe Broadway BMT, via the newly built(1970) Grand St connectihn, and the Williamsburg Bridge. This was a typical train set for the line. I rode it almost daily in those days, and I dont recall ever seeing anything else on these trains. But the Broadway line was a poor stepchild anyway, with the J and K getting R7s and 9s most of the time, though the J got R 16s and some R 27s.
Photo Date:
6/28/1974
Upload Date:
2/1/2016 4:54:51 AM
Location:
Manhattan, NY
Author:
Tom#Beckett
Categories:
Roster,RollingStock,Model,Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
226
Comments:
0
Title:
Warm glow
Description:
One of the appealing things about the older cars is the use of incandescent bulbs. They give off a much warmer light than fluorescents. Even in a 40 year old subway car, it has fn inviting appeal. This is the K train at 57 St/6 Av. I miss those old cars.
Photo Date:
6/28/1974
Upload Date:
2/1/2016 5:00:50 AM
Location:
Manhattan, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
NYCTA 1556(Electric M.U.)
Views:
182
Comments:
0
Title:
Dreadnought
Description:
When it came to transit cars, the R1/9 series was serious business. Those things were built to take on anything, as this photo shows. This is the J train at Marcy Av on the Broadway line in Brooklyn. Next stop is Delancey and Essex on the other side of the Williamsburg Bridge.
Photo Date:
9/24/1974
Upload Date:
12/4/2014 3:39:39 PM
Location:
Brooklyn, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
NYCTA 1441(Electric M.U.)
Views:
361
Comments:
0
Title:
Into the dark
Description:
We were riding a K train to Brooklyn, which uses the Williamsburg Bridge. As we were coming out of the tunnel, this M train with a set of R42s was rolling off the bridge into the tunnel, headed for its turnaround at Broad and Wall
Photo Date:
9/26/1974
Upload Date:
12/4/2014 3:38:00 AM
Location:
Manhattan, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Tunnel,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
225
Comments:
1
Title:
A view of the bridge
Description:
Dad and I were riding the A train, not to Harlem as memorialized in song, but the other way, to the far flung strand of Rockaway. On the way down, we were caught by the south channel bridge between Broad Channel and Rockaway, open to let a barge through. I didnt even think this was navigable water-Jamaica Bay is not deep-so show what I know. The line has a history. It was once part of the LIRR, which had a wooden trestle over the water. It was a headache to maintain, given the salt water environment, and occasional fires. Finally, in 1950, part of it burned, the LIRR didnt have the money to rebuild, and sold it to the City of New York, which rebuilt the causeway in concrete and steel, opening it in 1954 as an extension of the A line via a connection at 96th Street and Liberty Av in Queens. The line north of that connection point, to the LIRR Main Line in Rego Park, retained service through 1962 to Woodhaven Blvd, when it was abandoned. When NYCTA took it over, the segment from Broad Channel to Rockaway was an extra fare zone, the City charging double the fare to ride there. You had to put another token in the turnstile to get out if exiting at any of those points. Entering, you put two tokens in. Needless to say, this did not sit well with the locals in Rockaway. Abe Beame, a resident of Belle Harbor, won election for mayor in 1973, in part, for his promise to eliminate the extra fare. This was one promise that was kept in an otherwise tumultuous time for New York.
Photo Date:
9/26/1974
Upload Date:
12/4/2014 3:48:02 AM
Location:
Broad Channel, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Scenic,Bridge,Track,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
228
Comments:
0
Title:
Portrait of the author as a young foamer
Description:
Yes, I, too, had one#of those striped engineer hats. Nowadays, Ill still wear a hat with a railroad theme, but its a lot more subdued. Im in the conductors cab of an R 36.
Photo Date:
10/27/1974
Upload Date:
2/24/2016 3:47:53 AM
Location:
Corona, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
147
Comments:
1
Title:
Woodlawn yard
Description:
Thf IRT Woodlawn Yard, seen from the lead off the Jerome Av line. We covered several of the Bronx yards on this trip.
Photo Date:
10/27/1974
Upload Date:
2/24/2016 3:49:36 AM
Location:
Bronx, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Yard,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
111
Comments:
0
Title:
Signs, signs, everywhere theres signs
Description:
Ths one is at the Fifth Av and 53rd St station on the ID Queens line.
Photo Date:
5/29/1975
Upload Date:
12/4/2014 3:52:50 AM
Location:
Manhattan, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Passenger
Locomotives:
Views:
125
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0
Title:
Old elevated line
Description:
The former Orgnge Line elevated structure is now out of service, and will soon be dismantled, now that the new line is in place. This el has been up since the turn of the century.
Photo Date:
8/25/1975
Upload Date:
2/29/2016 4:25:05 AM
Location:
Boston, MA
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Passenger,Track
Locomotives:
Views:
67
Comments:
0
Title:
Orange
Description:
No, not Syracuse, though dad was a 1954 grad. The MBTA Orange Line, which, in 1975, had seen a major upgrade, coming off the elevated line it had run since the turn of the century for a new right of way. We see some new cars as we head out of the city.
Photo Date:
8/26/1975
Upload Date:
2/23/2016 4:15:38 AM
Location:
Boston, MA
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
95
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0
Title:
New train, new station
Description:
The Orange Line had just had a major rebuild, the elevated portion of the line being taken off the old steel structure, and put on a new concrete viaduct, though some parts were in or under a highway. This is a set of new cars at the new Sullivan Square station. Boston color coded the equipment to match the line it was on, so here, it was orange trains.
Photo Date:
8/26/1975
Upload Date:
2/23/2016 4:22:15 AM
Location:
Boston, MA
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
54
Comments:
0
Title:
Charlie wouldnt recognize the place
Description:
The Sullivan Square station on the new Orange Line.
Photo Date:
8/26/1975
Upload Date:
2/23/2016 4:25:12 AM
Location:
Boston, MA
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Passenger
Locomotives:
Views:
53
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0
Title:
Kenmore
Description:
We went to Boston in 1975, a trip in which we used the T extensively. Dad took some photos in the system there, this one on the Green Line at Kenmore. For us New Yorkers, used to heavy rail and high level platforms, the low platform to accomodate PCC cars in the tunnels was a novelty.
Photo Date:
8/28/1975
Upload Date:
9/18/2014 2:21:56 AM
Location:
Boston, MA
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Transit,Passenger
Locomotives:
Views:
153
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0
Title:
Orange Line
Description:
Dad caught this Orange Line train departing an unnamed station on the T.
Photo Date:
8/28/1975
Upload Date:
9/18/2014 2:23:46 AM
Location:
Boston, MA
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
134
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0
Title:
LIRR from the subway
Description:
This is the view of the LIRR Main Line from the 61 St station of the Flushing Line. I rode this to school every day io the mid 70s, and saw a lot of action down below on the LIRR. Then it was mostly C 420s on the Hunterspoint Av trains, and a wild variety of passenger equipment. Wish now Id had a camera.
Photo Date:
9/14/1975
Upload Date:
3/25/2016 4:30:37 AM
Location:
Woodside, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Passenger,Track
Locomotives:
Views:
39
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0
Title:
Watching and waiting
Description:
The view from the 61 St-Woodside platform looking toward 52 St. There was a short hill between the two stations, as well as some curves. You had to keep an eye=out for your train as it approached. The sun glints off the rails on a late summer afternoon.
Photo Date:
9/14/1975
Upload Date:
3/25/2016 4:27:27 AM
Location:
Woodside, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Transit,Passenger,Track
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Views:
37
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0
Title:
On the avenue
Description:
Fifth Avenue. Dad shot this down the platform view of the IND station at 5th Av and 53rd St. The pillars create an interesting effect.
Photo Date:
6/12/1976
Upload Date:
3/25/2016 3:35:26 AM
Location:
Manhattan, NY
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Transit,Passenger
Locomotives:
Views:
46
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0
Title:
Lots of walkways
Description:
The Metro Center station was a transfer point, and had a lot of walkways to speed pedestrian traffic. The lower level was not yet complete at this date, but would come on line the next year. I was back here ten years later. It was quite busy, and the foresight that went into this station was evident.
Photo Date:
8/20/1976
Upload Date:
5/6/2016 2:21:04 AM
Location:
Washington D.C., DC
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Tunnel,Station,Transit,Passenger
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Views:
56
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0
Title:
Transfer point
Description:
This view of the Metro Center station shows the Red Line station above, and a new station on a connecting line below. The lines form an "X", and transfer is direct from one line to the other.
Photo Date:
8/20/1976
Upload Date:
5/6/2016 2:23:24 AM
Location:
Washington D.C., DC
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Tunnel,Station,Transit,Passenger
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53
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0
Title:
Hustle
Description:
Riders hustle through the station, now off their train and headed to the street.
Photo Date:
8/20/1976
Upload Date:
5/6/2016 2:25:34 AM
Location:
Washington D.C., DC
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
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Views:
51
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0
Title:
Platform vie
Description:
A look at the Metro Center station from the Red Line platform. The low angle only reinforces the cavernous effect of the arched station roof. The indirect lighting makes the station look dark, even more so than some of the IND stations I was familiar with in New York, some of which still had at that time, the original incandescent bulbs from the 1930s.
Photo Date:
8/20/1976
Upload Date:
5/6/2016 2:31:14 AM
Location:
Washington D.C., DC
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Tunnel,Station,Transit,Passenger
Locomotives:
Views:
50
Comments:
0
Title:
The way it was
Description:
Washington had a rail transit system prior to WMATA. It was, like most, a group of streetcar lines. DCs was notable in that it had the wires underground, accessed by a unique "hook" that reached down into the slot in the middle rail to contact for power. An example of this is seen here in the Georgetown section of the city.
Photo Date:
8/20/1976
Upload Date:
5/6/2016 3:13:53 AM
Location:
Georgetown, DC
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Track
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Views:
81
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0
Title:
Portrait of the poster as a young man
Description:
Dad got a shot of me riding the Red Line, here at what was then the end of the line at Rhode Island Av.
Photo Date:
8/20/1976
Upload Date:
5/6/2016 2:33:19 AM
Location:
Washington D.C., DC
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Roster,Station,Transit,Passenger
Locomotives:
Views:
64
Comments:
0
Title:
Waiting...
Description:
Riders wait for the doors to open at Metro Center.
Photo Date:
8/20/1976
Upload Date:
5/6/2016 2:36:56 AM
Location:
Washington D.C., DC
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Tunnel,Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
WMATA 1026(Electric M.U.)
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97
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Title:
Lighted map
Description:
The Washington Metro installed these great illuminated maps in their stations-good think, since the stations were so dark. They were a real help, though.
Photo Date:
8/20/1976
Upload Date:
5/6/2016 2:40:20 AM
Location:
Washington D.C., DC
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Station,Transit
Locomotives:
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52
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0
Title:
Inside the car
Description:
Dad got this shot of the interior of one of WMATAs cars. It looks a lot like the NYCTA cars, at the time they were getting R 46s, but with-get this-carpet!!
Photo Date:
8/20/1976
Upload Date:
5/6/2016 2:43:16 AM
Location:
Washington D.C., DC
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
RollingStock,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
66
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0
Title:
Car map
Description:
Like most systems, WMATA had maps in their cars. I was used to New York, so this system was a snap to learn. They did build out all the lines on it, too. At the time, there were only a couple open, but the advantage of the trains for getting around DC-a city that is a real pain in the butt to drive, and park, in, was obvious.
Photo Date:
8/20/1976
Upload Date:
5/6/2016 2:46:29 AM
Location:
Washington D.C., DC
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
RollingStock,Transit,Passenger
Locomotives:
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58
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0
Title:
Train to Farragut
Description:
This train is making its stop at Metro Center. It has only one stop left, at Farragut North, then it will change ends and go back to Rhode Island Av. The line would eventually run from Rockville Md, through DC, to Silver Spring Md.
Photo Date:
8/20/1976
Upload Date:
5/6/2016 2:50:37 AM
Location:
Washington D.C., DC
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
Tunnel,Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
54
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0
Title:
Railfan window
Description:
One of the good things about the cars that equipped the Metro was that they had good windows in the front, full width of the car. This allowed someone in the front of the car the ability to see everything the motorman saw, as well as watch him run the train, though with automatic train operation, mostly what they did was watch. It was interesting, compared to what I was used to on the NYCTA.
Photo Date:
8/24/1976
Upload Date:
3/26/2016 4:31:05 AM
Location:
Washington, DC
Author:
Tom Beckett
Categories:
RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
70
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0
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