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Re: Do You Remember? (52271)

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Posted by Dave Wallace on Fri Aug 27 10:10:40 1999, in response to Do You Remember?,
posted by Jeff Rosen on Thu Aug 26 17:06:15 1999.

Jeff - all great memories - here are a few more from a similar time
on Long Island -

RS3s and C-Liners handling the evening rush hour at Huntington hauling six axle heavy weghts

Huntington Coach Corp "Baby Old Look" buses meeting those trains

The potatoe field that became the Walt Whitman Mall in Huntington

The '63-'64 New York Worlds Fair - the exhibits, the momorail, the special station on the #7 line and all the special buses routed there

The Long Island Sound full of Flounder (I know it's not transit but I miss the Flounder!)

Abandoned LIRR branch to Pilgrm State - saw a train on it once with passengers

C420s shut down at Port Jefferson on a hot Summer weekend

LIRR "Road 'n Rail" service to Greenport and Montauk in GMC "Fishbowls"

Freedomland - in the Bronx near where Co-op City is now

The following bus companies - Hempstead, Bee Line, Mid Island, Inter County, Schenck, Utility, Jerusalem Ave

And - in Westechester and Putnam - (a little later on) -

P and S units hauling New York Central coaches in third rail territory

The Third Ave El in the Bronx - last caine seats on the IRT

The last freight on the Putnam Division between Mahopac and Brewster
with a single filthy New York Central RS3 up front

RDCs on the Hudson Division between Poughkeepsie and Croton Harmon

Walter's Transit Bus company between Brewster and Times Square

The "Hawthorne Circle" junction between the Taconic, Saw Mill and Bronx River Parkways connecting to each other and Route 9A and 100

The New York Central ACMU 1100 series when brand new


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