Washington metro trips 1991

[@Bastranz27]

This was an incredible throwback to my childhood, showing off "my" Metro as I first remember riding it. I was thrilled to see the old Flxibles and that TMC at Shady Grove, the buses of my childhood! It was also so great to see the old Metro trains before they were rehabbed...and before the 7000s...and they all look so clean compared to today! The Metro was really awesome back then!

[@bostonelevatorsaviation]

Ikr, i personally prefer the way it is now since they have seriously upped their game on cleanliness, and the fact that their are no homeless sleeping in the subway is very good

[@raymondj.2351]

Yep, the early 90's were when the last remainder of the GM Fishbowls and the Flxible New Looks were being overhauled prior to retirement in the early 2000's, good times for sure.

[@johnfoltz8183]

And the old metro bus logo and livery

[@SharlenesJourney]

Man I miss these days I’m Trying not to cry but I used to go with my mom To work she worked at union station and I miss the buzzing sounds and coming home taking the train back home life was so much simpler back then thank you for these videos tho

[@youdontknowme2331]

This was way before pg plaza..west hyattsville, college park and greenbelt stations were in service....I remember the 1.10 fares and paper farecards and paper bus transfers...lol....I am a real DC native born and raised...

[@sammy122576]

YouDont KnowMe hold when was west Hyattsville ,pg plaza , college park and greenbelt added ? it was there when I was born I remember when largo and Morgan blvd wasn’t there yet

[@dreamyyx_3762]

Largo Town Ctr and Morgan blvd. opened in 2004

[@jpthompson09]

West Hyattsville and greenbelt were in service if you see the map shown early on the video.

[@joeramsey4955]

​@John Thompson west hyattsville station used to be called Chillum.

[@joeramsey4955]

​@@jpthompson09 west hyattsville opened in December of 1993

[@PaulClipMaster]

Miss those Flxible buses. Best buses ever made.

[@dmvnative90skid63]

Rhode Island Avenue station looks so DIFFERENT now ....the bus bay area that is ! Lot's of shops, condos and restaurants in the place of the former parking lot !

[@Krazee84]

WAY different....

[@dreamyyx_3762]

RIA definitely became much more compact & crowded

[@JohnSulu14]

The Silver Line wasn't even there yet

[@redphone1438]

robbieraeful and not even the Green Line not until May 1991 this was March.

[@inlineskatelifei.s.l1669]

The land for it was purchased though

[@S-CB-SL-Animations]

Exactly.

[@damienchance2622]

Right between Rhode island Ave and Union station.. the middle area is were they built new Noma-Gallaudet station is in the late 2000's

[@mannyistheman2221]

I remember when it was like this riding Metrorail. I am a native Washingtonian and this brings back a lot of memories! Thanks for sharing this with me!

[@ItsWAWGaming]

I'm just waiting for the day when there will be time travel and we can visit this era and ride the old metro once more.

[@michalasiegel]

This is an awesome tidbit of DC metro history. Thank you!

[@benrmyers01]

@Reefdevil nothing has changed? How about 1:22 Shady Grove Station before the parking garages were built, 1:52 "Red Line to Wheaton," entire ride no "doors opening or closing" announcements... How-eeeeeever.... if you meant that most of the rolling stock shown here is still merrily rolling along 23 years later, you are absolutely right!

[@redskins5926]

That view of Eisenhower Ave from Huntington at 12:53 - wow, it is so different in that area now. Not to mention you can't see Eisenhower Ave anymore from the Huntington platform, there's an apartment building blocking the view. Thanks for posting this!

[@Bastranz27]

Heh I was about to say that would be an awesome place to get a great picture! Oh well lol

[@simplycarlton5582]

I live in Alexandria VA. In 1991 As This Is Dated I was 13 & Remember taking The Subway & Buses During this time, this brought back memories of those times, thank you for posting 💯❤️

[@annaLaPointe]

I think it was around this time (or maybe a few years before) that I went to Washington with my family. I still remember the humming the trains made as they pulled in and the little dings or tones you heard as the doors closed. Thanks for the memories!!

[@jmysterio924]

This video was shot back in 1991 I was 8 years old...wow. I am now 30. I remember my first train ride....It was to Woodley park zoo Adams morgan. I use to always get a seat near the window.

[@louky264]

Its amazing to see how things change in 20 years. I was 6 at the time of the video. No internet barely any cellphones etc. 1991 was a different time

[@Buckdalorian1000]

7:11 look at that! Glorious Rhode island station! Before the giant and mini-mall area was built. I grew up in D.C. In 91 I was in kindergarten. lol, I remember me and my brother and friends would come here after school to catch the bus home, this was 1997 at the time. lol, we would hang in the bus areas and play pokemon red/blue till like 6 at night. This was also during the paper bus transfer era of D.C. If you were smooth enough you could use the same bus pass all week lol.....miss those days.

[@looklessugly7285]

NoMa station wasn’t there even

[@SharlenesJourney]

The trains were so much slower back then lol wow :D

[@riccorich]

I remember a lot if the subway stations was much darker too... thank goodness for new paint jobs and led lighting

[@SigmaRho2922]

There were 4 sets of door chimes in metro’s history. For the first 20 years a two tone Ab4-F4 chime was used. In 1996-98 the chimes were replaced with the door chimes found on the R62 trains of the New York subway accompanied by door opening and closing announcements. There was an alternate version of this where the door chimes were based on the PATH PA3 trains. In 2006-10 both chimes were replaced with a set of expanded door opening and closing announcements accompanied by fast two tone chimes. The 7000 series and the future 8000 series trains are equipped with newer digitized two tone chimes.

[@SuperWorldRailFanProductions]

Well for the 8000s, we have no idea about the chimes yet.

[@elirosen1391]

Great video! Nice to see you got a relaying train at Wheaton. Hard to believe it took seven more years for Glenmont to open.

[@Pat4ever.]

What a different time. I almost never see empty trains like that, especially on the red line.

[@cfoster81]

During the AM and PM rush hours, the Red line would be packed as well during the PM rush on the Orange Line heading to Vienna/Fairfax.

[@raymondj.2351]

That particular piece of footage must have been shot on a Sunday..😅😅

[@mtattrain]

Damn 1000-series without AC propulsion nice stuff.

[@SuperWorldRailFanProductions]

They had cam-controllers before their general overhaul.

[@ItsWAWGaming]

@@SuperWorldRailFanProductions So they sounded exactly like the unrehabiliated 2000 series back in their hay-day?

[@SuperWorldRailFanProductions]

@@ItsWAWGaming I think so yes.

[@plushynoob3463]

@@ItsWAWGaming Not excatly, the 1000 Series used Westinghouse Cam-control propulsion. The 2000 series used Cam-control propulsion. (Not sure what type). The 1000 series were way quieter than the 2000. The 2000 sound like the 3000 and the 4000 but without the buzzing.

[@SchuminWeb]

Much to the contrary - there is no legal basis for restricting photography, and if you tell them they're lying, they usually slink away. I've told off a few Metro employees in my day for exactly that.

[@Krazee84]

And now we work for....nevermind...🤣

[@SuperWorldRailFanProductions]

This was even before Metro took the Rohr cars for rehabilitation.

[@JohnSulu14]

For Flxible Metros from 1990, B is for Best as in Flxible Metro-B since they were veterans for 20 years until late 2010.

[@JohnSulu14]

Ross Lynch wasn't born yet

[@deontemerritt91]

wow 25 years ago from 1991 man everything was so different the world was 1991 was 1991 old school from the Early 1990s cool video and trip on a train is this from Washington Metro 🚇.

[@ethancarter4388]

Wow, its so wierd to see the ride from rhode island to metro center with no NOMA. Hmm

[@cfoster81]

This was in 1991, before NOMA-Gallaudet (New York Ave) was built and Rhode Island Ave-Brentwood looked a lot different than it does today. Also then, the Green Line was still under construction in both ends before they opened in parts throughout the 90's (The Fort Totten to Greenbelt section opened first, then the downtown section between Anacostia and Shaw-Howard Univ. and the Yellow line only went as far as Mt. Vernon Square

[@thekarlkeeper8727]

Chris Foster the 4000s were new back then.

[@Bastranz27]

Heh. Things have changed so much. This is the Rhode Island Ave Station (did they add the Brentwood later?) that I knew. The new development there still blows me away when I pass by!

[@landoverdivision321]

Instant favorite and from the year i was born. Good job man.

[@dcspotter]

I don't even remember riding a Fixible bus. I think I have when I was little but I remember seeing them. Ahh classic buses

[@dcspotter]

Even the 2000 and 3000 cars were not even rehabbed back in early 2000s. Old days :)

[@MiketheNerdRanger]

Man, I wasn't even born yet, and yet this is all starkly familiar. Those old buses were still around when I was a kid, and I remember distinctly

[@mrrobot5963]

Back when it was actually automated. Now drivers drive the train since 2009

[@JohnSulu14]

At the time of this video, Adam Levine was only 12 years old.

[@davinp]

and so was I

[@nysubwaydude5634]

It was 15 years before I was born

[@Infamousdee240]

@@nysubwaydude56347 for me

[@vishc645]

10:29 Is it me, or was there another train on the other side of the platform making that buzzing noise before this train started moving?

[@OGIngrid]

It was maybe the train or the other train in the other side

[@SuperWorldRailFanProductions]

There was another train on the other side; you can tell by the shadow casted on the ceiling of the station

[@dreamyyx_3762]

3:05 We passed an Original Rohr 4-car Red Line train :D

[@AWJ2013-c4c]

6:22 Man, in old videos, we barely see 2000 series videos

[@reggieclayton8544]

The best metro rail cars ever and still are I am building a 3d model replica of the 3000 series Breda.

[@CRFProductions2023]

Something about that Amtrak train seems peculiar to me ... When did the Chase Maryland Collision occur?

[@thekarlkeeper8727]

William K Bolan 1987.

[@JohnSulu14]

This was before Franconia-Springfield Station opened

[@SandBoxJohn]

27 3 91 was the 15th anniversary of the opening of the first segment of the Red line.

[@SuperWorldRailFanProductions]

12:14 Is that a Rohr subway car?

[@QuarioQuario54321]

Things somehow look very different and not all that different from the present at the same time

[@damienchance2622]

My question is since when three stations open on the green line..(Georgia Ave-Pentworth, Columbia Heights, U street-cardozo??

[@TheRailLeaguer]

U Street opened on 1991. It was the terminus of the Yellow Line until the section of the Green Line south of L’Enfant Plaza to Anacostia opened. At the point, the Green Line replaced Yellow Line service, while Yellow Line trains terminate at Mount Vernon Sq, where a pocket track exists to terminate trains. Columbia Heights and Georgia Avenue opened in 1999, creating a connected Green Line that operated between Greenbelt and Anacostia (service through Southeast DC and to Branch Avenue opened in 2001)

[@damienchance2622]

@@TheRailLeaguer oh I didn't know that!!!

[@SuperWorldRailFanProductions]

Even the stations look the same, nothing has changed.

[@milescarr8524]

Omg there are like no buildings. I was born in 2002 and didn’t realize that most of the developments were relatively new

[@JohnSulu14]

Did any 1990 Flxible Metro-Bs numbered 9301-9413 and 9481-9498 change their taillights at some point during their service lives?

[@Bastranz27]

Yes indeed they did! They all had the old block taillights that were replaced with round LED lights.

[@JohnSulu14]

Did the Flxible Metro-D's numbered 9701-9785 & 9801-9835 as well as the Metro-E's numbered 4001-4104 which all had round LED lights originally come with the block taillights as well?

[@elirosen1391]

I envy you being able to take video from the front cab back then. The last time I did that, I was yanked off the train and subject to a very boring lecture by a whole bunch of transit officers. Times have changed not for the better. By the way, at about 3:11 are you at Eisenhower Avenue or Huntington?

[@jasons8479]

That bus at 7:08... so 70s era!

[@TheSkipper775]

Yes but on this date in 1991 metro only had 4 lines Yellow,Red,Blue,and Orange

[@dreamyyx_3762]

Dont forget The Green Line opened in 1991 and the 4000 series was put into service in 91'

[@fhs2004jtwwf2007]

it's funny hearing "Red Line to Wheaton" lolz

[@davinp]

Metro introduced the 4000 series in 1991, when the green line opened, and now they are being retired. They never got rehabilitated (like the 2Ks and 3Ks) and have become very unreliable. The goal is to have all 1000 and 4000 series retired by the end of 2017. They are being replaced with the new 7000 series.

[@Nick-lo1dh]

Davin Peterson i still get on 2000 & 3000 & 4000 series till this day

[@a6hwf8754]

A well paved without potholes street with proper painted road markings in DC at 11th and G NW no less? Wow!

[@kessass83]

nothing changed after 20 years. Everything the same. Cars, stations, ticket machines, everything the same. But I can tell you Washington DC is the most beautiful and the best city in America. I loved that city

[@dagameplayer]

Was hoping to get to see the person walk over to where those machines were that had the white tickets. When I was a kid I'd run over and grab about 2 or 3. Anyway great throwback video. Love to see the busses of my childhood.

[@JohnSulu14]

Un viaje en el metro desde Shady Grove en la línea roja.

[@SuperWorldRailFanProductions]

I like this footage classical, Awesome video Yolticat.

[@lolfunnycp]

Yes, it looks like a rohr. In 1991 there were only the 1000 2000 and 3000 cars so just under half were rohrs

[@thekarlkeeper8727]

NScaleTransitModels(lolfunnycp) you mean also 4000s. The 4000 series cars by BREDA Inc.4000-4099.

[@plushynoob3463]

@@thekarlkeeper8727 At the time of this video, there were being delivered and undergoing testing.

[@brian_brennan42]

Hard to imagine no NoMa!

[@FingersKungfu]

God. Those ticket machines were the same since back then?

[@Bastranz27]

Lol yes indeed, but if course upgraded for credit cards and Smartrip transactions!

[@Yolticat]

@WillowCric Thanks!

[@Yolticat]

How have you managed to date it exactly? I remember it being just before Easter so you're probably right.

[@RobertPaniagua]

This may have been aouthored in 1991 but this could have easlily happened in 1987, four years earlier since everything pretty much was the same between 1987 and 91. BTW I lived in Germantown in 1987

[@HesitantSignal]

There is a time stamp on the video.

[@synthywavy1982]

Back when these trains were so quiet

[@ItsWAWGaming]

OG 3K and 2K and Rohr

[@jaydenmamane353]

Is this is the 4000 series?

[@thekarlkeeper8727]

Jayden Mamane The first car in the video is a 2000 series. The other ones are 1000 and 3000 series.

[@plushynoob3463]

4000 series were being delivered at the time of this video and were undergoing testing.

[@csouth28]

NICE! Very nice!

[@RobloxianX]

Interesting how when Metro first became public to citizens back in the 70's, only two cars were used per train. In the 90's it was 4, well at least 1991. Yet now even with 8 car trains taking up all of the space on the platform, it feels like preformance is getting worse and worse. Oh boy I wonder why...

[@HesitantSignal]

He was able to date it because of the time stamp.

[@kessass83]

even 495 looks the same. Nothing changed there.

[@andreivillasana2798]

1991 breda 4000 series delivered 2017 breda 4000 series retired

[@Reefdevil]

Such a time warp. ... It is like nothing has changed!

[@SuperWorldRailFanProductions]

13:16 Original Rohr subway car.

[@CoastersNSich]

@schuminweb Not to mention the Flxible New Look at @7:30

[@JohnSulu14]

el veintisiete de Marzo, mil novecientos noventa y uno

[@johnfoltz8183]

1:26: old Orion 1 or City Cruise Ride On bus

[@Goodwinish]

March 27 1991-March 27 2011 20 years and i was born in 1995

[@SuperComputerlab]

Ah back in those days :)

[@kessass83]

but otherwise nothing change. Even the cars looks the same.