wow, absolutely fascinating! i could listen to these guys for hours. i would love to have a manual for each r-type car in the current fleet, with pictures, exploded view diagrams and all the rest of it. heck, give me that manual for all the retired cars as well! there needs to be a subway bar in new york where people can go, have a few drinks, and just talk overhaul shop.

Thank You. Love the info.

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Get out of your car: Get into this bus. It's cheaper to ride, than drive it yourself. Your fare will be less: We will get you there.

NYC's Subway System Is So Awesome!

Very well done and coordinated

Hi New York City Transit is it true if you can ask One of your Workers for an R32 Toy train Just let me know

What a great roundtable discussion/webinar, thank you NYTM for hosting! What a shame that Governor Hochul "indefinitely paused" literally weeks before its start :-( hoping that a positive announcement comes out after November 5th, 2024 and that when the congestion pricing implementation hopefully gets "unpaused," it's not completely made into Swiss cheese with even more exemptions and giveaways :-/

Can I Get A Pin Please Im A Big Fan Of You It Would Make Me Happy :)

Thank you NY transit museum! I’m going on July 30th with my friends

I worked on this job in 2014-2016 it was something beyond belief

1:06 aw no way its Brooklyn T Guy!

Can't wait to watch this through in one sitting. Humanity's squandering of the one shot gift of the carbon pulse manifests in countless ways, but seemingly the devotion to cars and suburbia have done and will do the most damage. Is it reversible before the point of no return?

Is there a way to get a copy of that slide show ?

It's shocking how badly transit services have corroded in the US. When the federal covid funding of transit runs out I think a lot of cities might see their transit virtually or actually disappear!

Excellent discussion. Very informative and even entertaining.

It is one thing when the "arts" is subsidized by big foundations or private benefactors, o actually seeling their art to an end buyer. But what I find hard to believe is that Gov'ts al all level: Federal, State County. City or +++, seem so freely to create levels of admin for any reason to fund these exhibitions. Again may I point the WPA of 30's Depression era. wahsovevr agaion burdenong aql;l the tax payers who will never see any value at all. Here we are not showing National Anything; it is all foreign Culture absconded by anyone wishing to use/exploit tehir true interest and draw on 'roots' as a connection of authority. I think often so pretentious. That like Lincols's son to be a relioca of Lincoln or know and act in any same manner or skill. Like just haveing a name is enough to speak for a 1000 years of unknown facts or skills. Where is the funding $$$ who gets the hurdles as she says, so many declarations of disadvantaged whereas they do get to travell. they do get time and money. I want to see behind the bureacratic curtain. I can go on but the leagcy does not prove that it is money fairly spent (by people who have no say and others sign checks with no consesus rights. Object lessons that seem to be justified without extended proof. Being capable of Art and Having years and experience and degrees does only allow opinion and hope.

Also stop using letters and numbers use one of them only . Go for numbers only .

New York wants to forget the three old companies stop using their names, what a mess . London managed ok with Becks great map system, New York needs someone like Beck .

Is that a SML character

Dear New York Transit Museum This is Levi Aney(TrainLover9000), and I have a serious question. Is there a way that people can give you guys nostalgia stock ride ideas? If so, I have some great nostalgia stock ride ideas! If you would like to here those ideas, please reply to this comment. By Levi Aney(TrainLover9000)

335 views :sob: Edit: 46:50 when he talks about the MBDF for the R62s, iirc the R188s or R179s hit 1.4 million on their MBDF earlier *this* year

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I love train’s

The story of the painfully long adoption AND dismissal of the the numbers and letters (and colors) in train car roll signs is a topic to be considered for a future presentation. A complex web of events and limitations unfolding over decades. For example, the only old cars receiving color front and side signs to replace the original factory installed signs were the R-16s in the mid 70s when they had a mini0iverhaul to address door operator and other issues. I will note that the TA abandoned the BMT route numbers in 1961 and the R-27s were delivered with letter roll signs. The BMT letters were added to the IND letters in the route guide on the back of the pocket map as of early 60s. The 1978 introduction of the new map and colors was accompanied by a public relations campaign titled "We're Changing". There was a drawing of a worker on a ladder over-laying a dark 4 over a light 4 (or some route). I have a button that simply says in soft italics We're Changing with a background of rainbow stripes (colors bleeding into each other - unlike the later pride flag). As I recall the stations and train cars (those not facing imminent retirement or overhaul) were largely but not completely converted by 80 or 81. If anything the cars with old (1967 map) colors were updated much more quickly than the cars with non-color (pre 1967 rollsigns). The wisdom of the participants in the development of the current map is evident in its long standing survival. Everything, down to the choice of colors and the refinement of secondary information, was done quite effectively. New maps will come and go but I firmly believe the existing trunk colors will be in use as long as the system is a functioning entity,

The Court Street station on the shuttle. And also there’s a shop at Two Broadway.

Thank you for putting this together and preserving this history. The original IND station guide had separate colors and a schematic design. The Board of Transportation / Transit Auth. well understood the deficiencies in what we now call wayfinding. The very slow progress from 1940 to 1967 illustrated the grave problems of financial disinvestment. Wayfinding was a low priority as well as a very expensive one to correct since signage needed to be updated and in a way that would not require wasteful revision. At least they got it right in the late 60s and again in the 70s with the systems we still use today. Also the durable station maps were rarely photographed. In a lifetime of interest in this subject I don't recall ever seeing a single photo or mention of the early wall map program.

The reality of how they picked colors in the end is such a let down. The artist had it right.

and it's a train car

The mta are operateing The R33 Bluebird and the R33 redbird

Corrections: (a) From 18:51 to 19:10, I incorrectly labelled the 1939 Nostrand map as "1937". The correct date (i.e. 1939) is displayed on the next slide. This is important as Nostrand was still using 2-color offset lithography up to and including 1937, while Hagstrom had already moved on to the 4-color offset litho press in 1936. Nostrand did not catch up until 1939. (b) At 24:48 to 25:02, I tagged Emmanuel Scheyer as "designer and architect". In fact, he was not an architect: he was first employed as a Design Engineer and later as Civil Engineer. He also designed and invented things in his own time.

That was a great presentation, really enjoyed it.

R33WF Bluebird

Yay for the future chairman! 😊

That kid whose mother spoke about how ultimately he wants to be the chairman of the MTA clearly has his goals set.

The BMT was the first to use numbers

Well dome! The letter routes started with the IND system that n 1932, from A/AA-HH. The BRT/BMT used numbers until the Christie Street connection, and then the BME routes were slotted into the IND system.

I like marie

Crazy that BRT/BMT only got to build one trunk line in midtown

I was on one of the last planes if not last before LaGuardia closed for the storm

Thanks for this Peter and NYC Transit Museum!, watching from Belgium.

Too much “uptalk”. But excellent information!

Bravo! So much great information.

A choo-choo lover's Heaven!!!

One of the best live Web presentations I've experienced from the NYC Transit Museum! Thank you for an excellent presentation, Peter!

....WowWee...!!!!...Just Total amazing what Mankind Can think of, and then Do.....!!!!....Still Hoping NYC never gets any Kind of Earthquake...!!!!.....🙂🙂🙂

A nice addition to the conversation that really would have been great would be the fear a lot of people feel when encountering this sort of art/activism anywhere. (Listening to the speakers here you would look forward to seeing their next installment :) I grew up in the inner city and graffiti/art on someone else's property usually screams poor policing and potential no go zone. These issues are in the activists head at the moment and very important to them. Most people are trying to get to work and in the process seeing antisocial behavior as part of their art.