NYC Subway Virtual Railfanning In 1988 with AUTHENTIC SOUNDS [BVE EXCLUSIVE!]

Inspired by videos that John C. Urbanski took back in 1988, I decided to recreate the NYC Subway system in that time on OpenBVE showing how exactly the B division was during the north tracks repairs of the Manhattan Bridge, resulting in additional B and D service via Broadway and Astoria. We're also right in the middle of the Clean Car and General Overhaul Programs, which makes a huge exciting variety of subway cars covered in graffiti, cleaned and recently rebuilt along with new R68/As in that short period.
In this film we are gonna make a railfan trip from Upper Manhattan to South Brooklyn via the IND 8th Avenue, 6th Avenue, BMT Broadway and West End lines stopping at various stations and filming trains including R10s, R27/30s, R32s, R38s, R40/Ms, R42s, R44s, R46s and R68/As with their authentic sounds from that time.
All aboard, grab some food, and here we go!
Credits:
-R27/30, R32, R38, R44, R46: BVEMudwrestle and PieSuperPac
-R68/A: ATheExpress
-John C. Urbanski for the videos, which is the source of the train sounds. (I have no right to redistribute these videos so do not ask for them.)
-Lance from NYCT Forums for 1980s R10 and R27-R38 roll signs
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My officially released New York City Subway content:
-BMT Franklin Avenue Shuttle pack with R32 & R38 Post GOH pack (include 1990s era): • OpenBVE Official Relea...

[@OGR-42]

The R10s in the video have blue interior doors. But they were in fact green matching the exterior color. Just wanted to point out that little flaw

[@Trainboy-vb9je]

2:32 HEATHER

[@Trainboy-vb9je]

Mta

[@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2]

The greenbirds.

[@danielpedricothe2nd376]

Hi

[@linlu-hb2rl]

@@Trainboy-vb9je that's not a r10. r10s are one of the first mta subway car types t o have ROUND door portholes

[@kevinwong6588]

Some footnotes: the first pair of GE R32s was in service in July 1988 on the A, in mixed train of R38s, the other eight were outshopped from GE 12/5/88 and not in service until early '89. All 196 R38s were fully rebuilt as of December 1988. There were still some non-overhauled R10s in 1988 (tagged), these were GEs and lasted to 11/10/88. The Westinghouse R30s are technically correct with the air release sound from the manual load valve (the GE rebuilds might have had replacement). The first pair of Coney Island R42 rebuilds was done in January 1988, with the first eight cars in service in March. The MK rebuilds followed later in the year. Also a cameo by the R42s from The French Connection.

[@thegreatone861]

I’m a train operator for New York City Transit and I want to say that y’all did a fantastic job. I love the 80’s theme. Keep up the great work 👍🏿

[@Southbound_Buff]

my dad is a TO as well. he says i know more about the rolling stock than he does.

[@BDEisMe22_4]

Awesome air brake sounds! Takes me all the way back! Really great vid

[@tubblescousine257]

Damn nice bro this looks mad realistic and nice video reminds me of the good old days

[@burbank]

Excellent work! This is great work of an artistic recreation of the Nycta's past. Clearly, an exemplary effort and dedication to the precision and accuracy was allocated and successfully accomplished! It was great to see both the pre and post reconditioned Subway models in action and the decor of the station's prior to their renovation. It was like a time machine but just in the comfort of the present. This is virtually like recreating and revisiting the past! Great work. Look forward to seeing your future workings and projects.

[@MajorLeague718]

Great Job-- amazing details with the train exterior, interior, and the sound effects!!!

[@SubwayFan83]

Oh man, I remember the R44 tested with the illuminator destination signs. I was weirded out by the big flip dot A sign bonnet when I was little. 1988 was definitely a great year to remember with these trains. Glad I lived to see subways when in it was in its true condition. And to add, I'm shocked there was no R40 slant M trains featured (graffiti sets and GOH sets) during the runs. That was something I also remembered back in 88.

[@OGR-42]

Jtrain83 In the videos I have there was no R40s on the M. I thought the GOH sets would appear in late 88 or early 89. I heard about graffiti sets on the M but I forgot to include it I guess, I really wanted the video to be released asap

[@SubwayFan83]

@@OGR-42 oh ok. But yes, R40 slants did actually run on the M. The graffiti sets I remember riding during my early livelihood of living in Bushwick back then. The GOH sets definitely made appearances on the M seen it but was never lucky enough to ride it.

[@eles2147]

I remember the A train having those dot signs.

[@eles2147]

There were still some trains with graffiti. I rode plenty of Canarsie L trains that had graffiti. Plus the R32-42s with the cabin doors painted blue.

[@eles2147]

Oh wow you got the R10s in green? Fabulous. Do you have an IRT edition?

[@Tony_515]

Awesome content!

[@Gabriel-bj1ut]

I have to learn how exactly you edit the routes to make it look older! Also which R40 did you use in section 52:05

[@OGR-42]

85-88 R40

[@Gabriel-bj1ut]

@@OGR-42 thank you sir.

[@F40PH-2CAT]

R32 sounded like R27/30 R38 sounded like R40/42.

[@Leo-dc4oy]

GTA 4 train with the best sound I ever heard

[@trainluvr]

Very accurate. /the seats rarely had graffitti on them. Could you add people. Some carachters could be izod lacoste wearing yuppies going to tennis, do-rag wearing thugs, bag ladies, chinese men with pink plastic food bags, motormen with tools hanging from belt, railfan boys with SLR cameras.

[@GeneralHawk505]

Hey jon. I would like to put people in BVE but the issue is BVE becomes to stable after a while....We can add photos of people probably in station but it would be static. Non moving.

[@trainluvr]

I didnt know you were the evil mastermind of these videos. How can you reply across different channels? If I had the time to learn BVE I would creat a 6 track Second Avenue subway running high performance, painted R-11s. or 60' long, 11.5 foot wide R-15s, with leather high backed seats from Patterson to Staten Island.

[@OGR-42]

trainluvr Ryan and I are the main guys between the vintage stuff, he gives various information and I build stuff. Learning bve would be interesting because you can build ANYTHING you want without fancy 3d modeling softwares lol, that’s why i chose bve for recreating the goldens years of the NYCS

[@R162A-1-train]

Please Railfan At Times Square Next

[@ThatBronxRailfanner]

16:57 That front tho

[@OGR-42]

ConCraftGaming This R30 car had an R42 storm door in the late 80s

[@TylerPlayzYeet]

How did you get all the trains to be like B2B without leaving the game?

[@Tony_515]

Tyler Playz He probably left the game and did edits to piece the videos together multiple times

[@acsupersport7981]

How do u move the camera, what key is that?

[@OGR-42]

2/4/6/8 on the numpad to move around, and the arrows to rotate the camera

[@TheAuraSeraphim]

Wow alot of Vandalized train

[@Sonic57053]

Its so amazing to virtually see a OpenBVE 1988 railfanning video, with a mix of pre and post General Overhaul R32s, R38s, R40s, R42s

[@BurnedNoodle]

I’m here for 8:42. *yeahboi*

[@mas_n_cant_animate]

Who has watched this fully? I have

[@Gabriel-bj1ut]

this looks pretty awesome and after looking into the entire video you put in a lot of effort to make things look how they did in the 80s. and although some of the stations went mostly untouched, you must have taken a long time and used a lot of effort to make things look almost exactly how they were. Keep up the good work. if you were planning to make 80s routes you have already got a lot of it down.

[@8avexp]

What about the R-10s? They were still around then.

[@OGR-42]

What's the train in the thumbnail? In the description? At 8:10 and 18:47 in the video?

[@atrobloxtrainspotter]

Hi NYCTA RATP Virtual I just want to ask if you can drop a link to the After-GOH R40/M/R42s?

[@the1970bvestuff]

Hey where are the r40 R40M R42 pack? you deleted it :,( why i just wanted that trains.

[@JorgeCat78]

16:13 The Train Operator is wearing sunglasses while operating underground? Rulebook violation - write-up!

[@henrymartins4457]

I could tell you work extremely hard on these trains

[@tuberoyful]

Memory Lane!!

[@bvemikestudios2064]

he ... hello, I'm very happy your trains are very cool. Do you know where I can get the Line you are using in the Openbve ???

[@ateltoni]

16:15 why does that train operator look like the dude from Smash Mouth?

[@NotJeremy_]

Lol lmao lol

[@ajjj4wood1]

32:28 overhauled R32 R train

[@HazelReserveUnit]

Did John Urbanski ever release any of the footage he took? I've seen him referenced in articles and photos of the NY Subway system but never found any footage by him.

[@F40PH-2CAT]

Someone uploaded the video this is based on but it was taken down.

[@Trainboy-vb9je]

1:00:10

[@donnieradar3867]

Love you work done a lot of videos from the 60s and 70s lover then you changed the game like to see more of the multiple trains running from the 1950s to 1990s in the future videos coming up the R44 D train 🚆 is most elite video you done with Multiple subways trains in the footage as a required request l like you do a supurb video on the R1,R9 R10 R16 R27,R30 R32 R32A R38 M40 R40 R42 R44 R68 subway cars on the D line in near future with QJ QB race to Coney Island on the Brighton line 👌 also the Q line trains from the early 1960s

[@OGR-42]

I appreciate it, next planned video is gonna take place in 1991 with R32s and R46s. Regarding the rest, I'll focus more on IRT than IND/BMT so that will have to wait, not to mention I have to update a lot of the rolling stock

[@raspergrey4935]

like train

[@F40PH-2CAT]

Source for this video: obka471eQkA

[@daddy4310]

Haha railfanning at my home stop... 125street. Love it.

[@ajjj4wood1]

36:03 this is my favorite R40S

[@eles2147]

OMG,. I used to look out for the M trains at 9 Ave overpass.

[@utamorgan]

Very cool, but from someone who was riding the subway very frequently back then, the R32 before overhaul air brakes were like the R40 and old PATH trains. You have them like the World Fair cars on the #7. Other than that beautiful!

[@OGR-42]

Not at all, you're definitely mistaking the R32 with the R38 which had WABCO ME43 brake valves like the R40-42 and PATH trains. R32s had ME42B brake valves like the R36s. You're talking about the R38 Pre-Overhaul like at 12:21

[@F40PH-2CAT]

R38 sounded like R40/42....R32 sounded like R27 thru R36.

[@StandardMedium]

Should Of Added VHS Ascetics. It Would of Looked Better

[@OGR-42]

I wanted to, but couldn't find any for Windows Movie Maker . I'll have to download another video editing software I guess

[@OGR-42]

RODOLFO HERAS Filmora puts a huge ass watermark on the videos and I’m not buying anything.

[@NONAME-ni1eg]

I like the old nyc subway, had a wider variety of Trains now all of them look the same especially in the IND/BMT

[@subwaymanYT]

Amazing content!

[@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2]

Way better than yours.

[@jaefarn]

Oh also that nice R44 old

[@realmsofgod9405]

I see you cannot download a R10 set at OpenBVE. I thought I had some but those are R1s. Pray that they release some.

[@jordanplays-transitandgame1690]

How did you fix the R68 Side Rollsign Problem?

[@Gabriel-bj1ut]

Also is there any chance the R40 At 13:50 will be released?

[@Gabriel-bj1ut]

TrainRailFan33 dude why?

[@F40PH-2CAT]

Damn good job. Wish original video was still on YT...it was awesome.

[@aaronsamuel2823]

Holy cow😮 at 6:45 I never knew that R38 was on the A line so I guess since 1966 right or no

[@OGR-42]

R38s ran on the A since 1980

[@aaronsamuel2823]

@@OGR-42 Just one question was there any sets of R38 on the Q or B line 🤔

[@OGR-42]

Aaron Samuel On the B and D sometime in the late 60s and late 70s to early 80s. On the Q sometime in 1989 only. The R38 ran on a lot of lines in its young days: A, AA, B, D, E, EE, F, GG, HH, M, N, RR and Franklin Shuttle

[@aaronsamuel2823]

@@OGR-42 why was the R38 removed from the Q line?

[@trainmanthunder]

Would you be interested in better sound effects? I recorded various sound effects in that era using stereo marantz recorder on metal tape I recently converted to digital mp3 and wave formats. I can supply partial and full air brake release, motor sounds dynamic brakes on most unoverhauled cars from R10 to R46 including R44 and R46 P-wire. R10 air door, NYAB and WABCO compressors too.most of them as re already edited for functions you can use

[@OGR-42]

Oh WOW. I’m really interested! How would you like to contact me?

[@mottavfarrockaway8274]

S Special 26:29 LOL

[@albinramirez372]

In 0:15 is 340

[@dkeithtag]

BVE has come a long way. This is great stuff. Where can I get the software, routes and rolling stock that you show here?

[@imaginox9]

Open BVE can be found very easily and is totally free, as for the rolling stock, I know that the Pre GOH R40/R40M/R42's can be found easily, same for the R68 and the R10. For a 1970's route, the J/Z is available in 1970's condition.

[@TheAuraSeraphim]

Nice vids well back to Old School for Retro

[@traink1158]

I played music. With it...it sounded even better

[@jpinko]

lol what would happen if R68s had tripes too

[@axolotltrainmobile2817]

I like the sound when the doors open on the R46

[@jribakove]

Thanks for the video; a lot of nice little touches of an era.

[@stevenmyrick1247]

excellent job on the 40 slants love em

[@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2]

I love the action of all of the retired trains.

[@TylerPlayzYeet]

Ay my home stop! 125 St

[@TylerPlayzYeet]

Ay my home stop! 125 St

[@miguelballesteros8692]

Where i can get the redbird onde

[@naquanbutler783]

Why watch out with c train

[@the1970bvestuff]

new sub

[@anthonycameron2067]

Excellent detail

[@luikgn7428]

I love train

[@some.transit_buff4518]

Wow, what a compilation

[@sonicfan91]

is the train at 18:46 an R10? this one is green, not blue

[@OGR-42]

They were green, i never said they were blue