Secrets of the Q Line

[@thedude921]

10:52 If you are in the last car of the B or Q heading south and you look out the window on the right side you will see the tracks for the 2 & 3 train. If you are lucky you will see the train passing through at the same time. I saw it frequently when I would go to Brooklyn College.

[@BDavinci06]

Regarding 7th Avenue on the Brighton line, you can see the IRT Eastern Parkway line from a glance. Stay on your right side. You see a very you see kind of a hole in the window On the Coney Island bound side. Extra points if you actually see a train run through there. When I worked in A Division, the numbered lines, you can see a little peek of 7th Avenue when I was going towards Utica and New Lots on the 2 & 3 Trains. That's my tip from an MTA worker

[@HaroldAlexis-bb8sd]

I have seen it many times The 2 & 3 trains running through. It's unique.

[@BigPops757]

I only saw it once. A southbound 2 train leaving Bergen street and I on the Coney Island bound Q approaching 7th ave. Last days of the Q having a complete 160 fleet

[@joestrike8537]

to be more specific, it can be seen at northern end of the nortbound platform. (Look across the tracks just north of the southbound pltform.) I used to catch a glimpse of it while on a southbound IRT train & assumed it was some sort of hidden station until I finally realized what I was looking at

[@joestrike8537]

I lived in Flatbush for quite a few years in the 1970s, first near the Parkside and then Newkirk Plaza stations, so I have quite a few memories of that line. Fun facts: 1) The Newkirk station was used as a location in "Next Stop Greenwich Village," symbolizing the protagonist's desire to leave Brooklyn & move into Manhattan - but they used the south end of the station, because the tracks rising up and vanishing from that viewpoint conveyed the idea better than the actual direction. 2) in "Futurama," when Fry visits the house he grew up in, he travels to the Newkirk Avenue station.

[@mvcrailphotos]

Very enjoyable video! I have two comments though: 1. Not sure how the Masstransiscope art installation didnt make it into this. That's the "moving picture" installation at the abandoned Myrtle Ave station that can be seen on 96th St-bound B and Q trains after departing DeKalb Ave. 2. The Bay Ridge Branch is NOT abandoned! New York & Atlantic Railway trains use it on a very regular basis bringing freight to and from the carfloat yard at 65th St.

[@FoxSunny13]

Most of it is abandoned

[@mvcrailphotos]

@@FoxSunny13 The entire length of the line is still in service.

[@FoxSunny13]

@@mvcrailphotos really??

[@mvcrailphotos]

@@FoxSunny13 Yep. NY&A run daily - well, nightly - from Fresh Pond Junction down to 65th St Yard to the interchange with NYNJ Rail.

[@declanftbl]

9:39 Reminds me of Earl’s Court, London. Very old but still in use going strong!

[@bricktvities]

20:26 lol that guy running got me dying 🤣

[@TG4164]

btw, that guy was a foamer

[@bricktvities]

@@TG4164oh okay

[@DeStylez01]

You should have seen what the Coney Island Stillwell station look like in the 80s and 90s before the renovation

[@thomashattey8037]

Very interesting and informative. Good pacing and inflection.

[@tdadp]

I would really love to see the second Ave connection go down to south street Seaport. Ans expand up to 125 and broadway

[@DiamondTheNYCTurtle]

Really enjoyed this video of my home line so I subscribed 👍

[@declanftbl]

And Cortelyou Road and Beverley Road actually ARE the closest stations. Newkirk Plaza used to be called Newkirk Avenue, along with the 2 and 5 trains. Beverley Road is split in half and the BQ station is spelt as Beverley Road and the 25 is spelt Beverly Road, this is because it is split in half at Flatbush Avenue.

[@WaddlesTravelsTheWorld]

another awesome video! u did a great job and now i wanna check out some of this stuff lol

[@norifromreallife-di7hi120]

I remember being on the 2nd Av Subway back then when I was a kid in like 2018, I loved seeing the new architecture

[@declanftbl]

You forgot to mention that Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center used to be called Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street.

[@joestrike8537]

When they changed the name of the Pacific Street station to Atlantic Avenue it totally confused me the first time I went thru it on the N train - I thought I'd gotten on the wrong train at DeKalb Avenue. The wall mosaics still say 'Pacific Street' but the station is lit so that you barely notice the walls.

[@munipalsfanboything]

The Q in Brooklyn is honestly nostalgic and *so* photogenic! I’ve never been able to find the place to see the Eastern Pkwy line from 7th Ave (Brighton), weird considering both lines (E’ Pkwy and Brighton) are my home lines so I’d know them like the back of my hands. Can someone explain to me why the Q platforms at West 8th- NY Aquarium look so dull compared to the F platforms below?

[@TimsTrainAndBusAdventures]

Nice job, except, Lexington Avenue 63rd Street isn’t the deepest station, 191st on the IRT Broadway line

[@DistrosProjects]

191 is the deepest station below ground level because it’s built inside of a giant hill, but Lex-63 is the deepest below sea level.

[@TG4164]

@@DistrosProjects This. When I get to 191 St on the 1, I will talk about the difference.

[@lifeliverig]

I take the Q train alot (main train) and I usually ignore these things. One thing that should've mention is in between leaving DeKalb and going to the bridge you can see an art piece that becomes an animation as you move

[@blue9multimediagroup]

Masstransitscope

[@jetfan925]

If you're gonna do the F Line someday, make sure you mentioned that there was a pedestrian bridge over Surf Avenue by West 8th Street station, which is also the southernmost station in the Subway system.

[@HaroldAlexis-bb8sd]

That's messed up they tore it down it used to lead to the New York Aquarium.

[@blue9multimediagroup]

If you look down the cross starts at Brighton Beach, you can see the ocean and beach in the distance to the east (Manhattan bound side).

[@AC34D]

Culver is technically IND….. Also how did you overlook the fact that the Q had three other variants alongside it? QB, QJ and QT Brighton via Bridge Brighton-Jamaica Brighton via Tunnel

[@isaiahrodriguez896]

I took the Q Train a few times to 2nd Ave and Coney Island back in 2021 for the 4th of July

[@gregodessite]

17:59 In 1993 I was already in USA, but lived in other part of Brooklyn, and did not go here. Where could I see remnants of race track or line leading to it?

[@DistrosProjects]

12:23 looks like a Debian Linux kernel panic, aka something went horribly wrong, in this case within 3 seconds of the screen turning on.

[@TracyC-nj2tq]

I remember when what is now the Q used to be a rush-hours only "unicorn" called the QB.

[@joestrike8537]

that ended at 57 Street...why was it called a "unicorn"?

[@TracyC-nj2tq]

@joestrike8537 Because, as I remember, you were REALLY lucky to even SEE the QB, let alone ride it. It was something special either way.

[@gregodessite]

17:52 Did you take this image from Eric Ozustowicz book?

[@declanftbl]

Also I’ve seen on an old abandoned stations website from Columbia that 63rd Street behind the wall it used to be an abandoned platform is this true?

[@koga115]

My favorite train 😊

[@Astrochorius]

You forgot to cover a significant secret on the Q, the myrtle ave art installation.

[@blue9multimediagroup]

Masstransitscope

[@ACEAndKTrainProductions]

The (Q) Line Is Always Something Special

[@odemata87]

Church Ave used to have two names. The northern end was known as Caton Ave Station while the Southern was Church Ave.

[@RaihanJoy176]

(Q) Train 96Th St Second Ave Manhattan ♿ To Coney Island Stillwell Ave Brooklyn ♿

[@michaelquinones-lx6ks]

Wasn't the 7th avenue station connected to the grand army plaza station at one time?

[@Ihonestlydek]

im just noticing the r46 at the beginning is using pitkin R46s (CI Yard does not use R46s around the 5900s-6200s)

[@DJSI3434]

Pipe dream...like the T train... EDIT: AAAAND the music from algol continental drift!? damn bro

[@joestrike8537]

They probably won't put the "T" line into service until the line reaches its terminus at Hanover Square in the financial district

[@scrat4379]

The 63rd st station is deeper than 191st IRT station up in Washington Heights?

[@DistrosProjects]

ground level true, but not sea level. 191 is built into a giant hill which isn’t true for 63.

[@Trainsallday]

I'm sorry there's an escalator at West 8th!?!?! The amount of times I've dreaded walking up all those stairs

[@ericthedumbmet4699]

Great video! just turn down the background music a little bit! Giving This video a like.

[@E-man5375]

The deepest station is actually 191st street on the 1

[@DistrosProjects]

ground level true, but not sea level. 191 is built into a giant hill which isn’t true for 63.

[@xSoporific1]

cool

[@coachloubrown-22]

The Q should be the B and vice versa

[@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2]

The mta should be sued for this 14:20

[@declanftbl]

Why?

[@TG4164]

It's luckily only at the far end of the platform. However with the MTA's goal to eventually have 95% of stations accessible, I have a suspicion that Beverley and Cortelyou will not be in that 95%, they might just be the two hardest stations to retrofit

[@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2]

@@declanftbl lack of ads compliance before 2022

[@stevemc01]

We shoulda just kept the Second Avenue subway as an Elevated line…

[@joestrike8537]

I live ON 2nd Avenue & it would've run riight past my window - thank GOD they tore it down!

[@HaroldAlexis-bb8sd]

@@joestrike8537 But now generations later will never see or know there was ever a Second Avenue El at all. They have to read or research about it. On the contrary sorry it's gone. That was an interesting line . Our East side Lexington Avenue line remains overcrowded & worse. I would give thousands to live near an elevated line I lived near one when I was little boy it's The Jerome Avenue line .

[@blue9multimediagroup]

DeKalb is pronounced as dih-kalb instead of dee-kalb LoL