New York City Subway: BMT Jamaica and Myrtle Avenue Lines

[@TheLpbrennan]

When I was here in 1968, the Broadway line ran to 168th Street Jamaica from Canal and used the arched-roof R-16s and still carried the BMT route designation 15. The Myrtle-Chambers trains were the BMT Standards, running up the same connection shown in the video to Metropolitan Avenue in Queens. (In 1969, the Standards were also used on the 14th Street-Canarsie line and Culver Shuttle.) The Broadway station of the Myrtle Avenue el was on the upper structure and connected with a staircase to the lower platform. The Myrtle Avenue line continued on to downtown Brooklyn, terminating at Bridge-Jay streets station. The Myrtle Avenue cars were the wooden-bodied, steel-underframe Q cars, originally open-platform gate cars built in 1903-1905. They were probably the oldest rapid transit cars in the world. They had been modified in 1939 for the New York World's Fair sharing the Flushing line with the IRT. (Since they were built as elevated cars, they shared dimensions with the IRT equipment.) For the Fair service, the ends were enclosed with sheet steel and two sliding doors added to each side. They ran in three-car units, motor-trailer-motor. It was a trip back in time to ride them: Rattan seats, open windows, and BRT cast into the knobs on the end doors. At Metropolitan Avenue you'd see the Q cars and Standards; the Fresh Pond Yard was full of both types. The old wooden cars served until October 1969, when the line was abandoned between downtown and Broadway. One set in the Subway Museum has been back-dated to its gate-car appearance.

[@Mike-uw4wn]

Larry Brennan wow. Now I know a lot more than I thought about these. Thanks 👍🏻

[@1575murray]

It would be nice if there were a way to restore the clerestory roofs on the museum gate cars to their original configuration and also reinstall the original Peckham trucks on the motor cars. The IRT Composite trucks those cars got in 1950 are poor performers. No I am NOT suggesting that the original link and pin couplers be restored since they are not safe to operate.

[@Organgrinder1010]

You have the skills of a professional photographer. I really enjoy your style, steadiness, judicious use of zoom and pan [which seem to be worked to death by some] and your framing of scenes. For this former New Yorker it's like being able to ride around the system I so enjoyed while living there in the ’60s.

[@Luftschlange]

+Organgrinder1010 Thanks, I appreciate your comment. :-)

[@daveboom7808]

Luftschlange do you live in nyc ? I watch you videos with nyc subway i like them , thank you

[@Luftschlange]

Unfortunately I don't. I live near San Francisco but I visit London frequently.

[@devin5287]

so how do you get your clips

[@natashadainty2308]

10001

[@musicforaarre]

Your photography is several cuts above. You showed the M train curving off of Myrtle Ave., and then it's curving around the ramp behind the tenements to get the Jamaica Ave. tracks. That shows that you are trying to show me the bigger picture, instead of just robotically filming dozens of trains entering and leaving a station. I like to see the overall operations within the whole system; this helps me with that. Your video of the C train reroute through Jay Street was awesome, as it shows operations (routing and scheduling) of trains, and it's flexibility in New York City.

[@lewisdsd]

Amazing shots! You have a really good eye! Your focus on how to compose the video in order for us to feel the environmental space at the stations, not just the trains.Your understand the architecture of the stations and surrounding buildings and compose a pretty decent shots! Very nice job!

[@RobertoLopezstudyis]

The images of the subway elevated trains and of the buildings and Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn are beautiful and nice to see, especially during the winter months in New York!

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[@1575murray]

The J train is an interesting although slow ride through the neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens it passes through on its way to the Lower East Side and lower Manhattan via the Williamsburg Bridge. In the winter you get a blast of cold air through the open doors at the frequent station stops.

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

@@1575murray VERY slow ride.

[@DonMas-car-pone]

This makes me miss NYC so much 😭

[@sidhu8525]

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[@citadinman]

Great video! I like the panorama on the last station.

[@merccadoosis8847]

Excellent video. Great photography - I get the sense you are a professional videographer. I almost felt like I was there with you as you filmed. Used to take the old J to Lane High School back in the day. Often stopped by Broadway Junction. Because of that, your video brings back lots of old memories (both good & bad). Keep up the good work!

[@dcplyr]

Nice. That Williamsburg stop looks like the old BT express album cover.

[@Gamer_Horse]

Brooklyns elevated trains sure do amaze me.

[@Gamer_Horse]

I’ve never visited them unfortunately.

[@Gamer_Horse]

Aw that’s too bad! I live right by NYC so fan railing is never a trouble for me. I’ll add those locations to the bucket list!

[@irelandbloke]

Super shots 👍🏻

[@Dtr01837]

love the complexity of these two lines

[@FerrocarrilesArgentinos]

good video!! regards from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[@pcmusicradio4198]

Excellent Video. Loved the track configurations at the Myrtle Ave-Broadway station. Especially the sharp right turn of the M train, coming around the "Swampdonky" building from 2:17 - 3:14. What camera or phone are you using? Fantastic resolution!

[@Luftschlange]

Thanks, yes that curve is pretty cool, I loved that too. I'm using a Canon EOS 70D DSLR in this video. Sometimes (in other videos) I also just use an iPhone 6+. In either case however I use an external mic for audio.

[@briansetpente1019]

Love your videos of each train 🚂 keep posting keep up the great work 👍

[@jgrtrx]

one of the few level junctions in the system right next to the station

[@donaldcontillo9205]

I once took the 'J' train when it went all the way to 168th Street. The line has, of course, since been modified.

[@cube206]

Thank You for this very good video :)

[@Netbook451]

Now if they just hadn't replaced those 1880s Station Houses and wooden platforms...

[@KINGTO101]

Lorimer St Station my home area!!

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[@MrLuvOldies]

Thanks.Great Video.Mmmmmmmm

[@trainluvr]

Nice work. Good example of a smartphone zomby at 7:10.

[@Luftschlange]

Yes. That’s hilarious.

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[@lawrencekeesler7369]

Excellent photography. I notice many of the cars are in numerical order. Are groups of cars permanently or semi-permanently coupled? In an average train of ten cars how many operating positions would there be?

[@tweetingsparks]

+Lawrence Keesler The newer cars, like the one in this video are delivered in sets of four or five.

[@lobolxgend4899]

Why doesn't the M Train have another car? 1:00

[@rebeccab910]

Unsought Harp818 CUZ ITS SHUTTLE AT WHATEVER STATION THAT IS

[@1575murray]

@@jonathantullin1682 The reason for the short trains at night and on weekends is that the M uses OPTO (one person train operation) and the maximum train length permitted is 300'. The R160A and R143 cars used on the J/L/M/Z trains are in fixed sets of 4 cars.

[@rtrainproductions398]

Is the upper level Myrtle Avenue Broadway abandoned?

[@gningmor1612]

yes, it used to be the myrtle avenue el (I think). some remains of the structure are still there till thus day

[@TheLpbrennan]

Until October 1969 the Myrtle Avenue el continued to Bridge-Jay streets in downtown Brooklyn.

[@slantera]

I remember those apartment buildings at :08.

[@rodgiacoleetch6193]

What was all that unused trestle for at Myrtle?

[@larrybrennan1463]

That was the remaining section of the former Myrtle Avenue el which ran to a terminus at Bridge and Jay streets in downtown Brooklyn. The upper section was its Broadway station, with staircases allowing connection to the Broadway trains. The structure continues to Lewis Street, one block west, and probably provides structural support.

[@shawncrespo2867]

6:29 The guy who was talking works at my school.😂

[@markisdangerfield7976]

Yes

[@mookieslays9399]

3:16

[@ToonRussNetworkProductions]

How come the M Train only got 4 Cars ?

[@raveli1125]

shuttle service on weekends

[@thischannelisoof6253]

why did MTA make 4 cars in M train ?

[@rebeccab910]

Brute tubby it’s shuttle at that station

[@marcbono620]

So the M train is a shuttle train

[@aviatorx4563]

No, but now Myrtle ave station is getting a flyover, M is a shuttle from Myrtle-Wyckoff Aves to Metropolitan Middle Village

[@rebeccab910]

Bleu72 fanatic no it’s from myrtle wyckoff to myrtle bdway

[@rebeccab910]

Bleu72 fanatic maybe ur right I dunno

[@aviatorx4563]

It also runs as (M) from Broadway Junction to Delancy/Essex

[@josephmino8284]

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[@gningmor1612]

why does the M train only have 4 cars

[@MrRubenPrime]

Weekend Shuttle

[@michaelmorales1475]

gning mor like today

[@rebeccab910]

Shuttle M between myrtle wyckoff avs and myrtle av broadway

[@visionist7]

Swampdonky represent

[@rosequartzscrystalgemsgemqueen]

that were my dad sister lives at

[@MrQuirinus]

Same as Gotham City.

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[@jenny-masterchef]

those subway cars make a lot of noise.

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