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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee

Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 30028 Location: NEW JOISEY
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2025 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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The "RAIN-jers"..........
From what I've been hearing the past few days, they've had a QUITE embarrasing startup to their 2026 season, one that was a "foist" in the NHL's books.............
"NYO"
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 58 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 4329 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2025 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | The "RAIN-jers"..........
From what I've been hearing the past few days, they've had a QUITE embarrasing startup to their 2026 season, one that was a "foist" in the NHL's books.............
"NYO"
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Apparently, they're 2-3-0 . . . now, the "EYE-landers" . . . they're REALLY down in the dumps . . . 0-3-0 . . . only the Devils in "Joisey" have something resembling a winning record, among the local "En-Aitch-El" teams . . . |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee

Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 30028 Location: NEW JOISEY
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2025 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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W.B,:
Doesn't look like "Noo Yawk" is faring all that well, nowadays, pro sports-wise.
Gotta wonder.........
We often discuss how the "players" on both "Noo Yawk" baseball teams are mere shadows of what their teams rostered decades ago........you HAVE to wonder if the legendary "Noo Yawk" hockey maven (and die-hard transit enthusiast!) Stan Fischler ever compares the hockey players of today to those he idolized (and often knew personally) from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s..............
"NYO"
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 58 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 4329 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2025 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | W.B,:
Doesn't look like "Noo Yawk" is faring all that well, nowadays, pro sports-wise.
Gotta wonder.........
We often discuss how the "players" on both "Noo Yawk" baseball teams are mere shadows of what their teams rostered decades ago........you HAVE to wonder if the legendary "Noo Yawk" hockey maven (and die-hard transit enthusiast!) Stan Fischler ever compares the hockey players of today to those he idolized (and often knew personally) from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s..............
"NYO"
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Not just the hockey "players." Most of today's basketball "players" and those on what Ernie Kovacs called the "feets-ball" teams, also, qualify as shallow shadows of the "greats" of all of the above. It's a syndrome that isn't merely confined to baseball.
Mr. Fischler's chapter on third-rail installers in both his subway books were the inspiration for the scene in my Lefty-Right film where I was on the phone with a prospective subscriber and said (with the money part in bold face) . . .
"And, last week in our--we had a special issue in which we detailed the men and women of the Track and Structures unit of the New York City subway system, with a special spread on the people who install the third rails, and the risks they take every day of their job, and also's how some workers were affected by the kinetic energy that emerged--that was generated from the uniforms they wore in the course of their duty."
That was a more metaphysical way of putting across his point about some outdoor third rail installers, after only one day in the tunnels, getting so frazzled they quit on the spot (he'd called the job of installing and replacing third rails the most dangerous in the system, one where they had to wear protective gear - that which, according to my character, generated the "kinetic energy" that affected them after the sparks flew from the 650V rails). |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee

Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 30028 Location: NEW JOISEY
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2025 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
Funny you brought this up.......
Just before COVID totally went off the rails, several years back, I spoke with Mr. Fischler over the phone several times; this was just after the SAS ("stubway") had just opened.
I WAS going to make a HUGE exception and actually COME INTO "Noo Yawk" (first time since 2004!), to check out the "Stubway", have lunch, etc (he was also going to autograph a couple of his books for me as well!)
We were both looking forward to meeting up (I was going to be TRULY honored!); but, even though we talked a few times more, by that time, COVID had everything screwed up, and we never were able to meet up.
Then, I had misplaced his phone #, and, with all going on, never tried to call him back.
I found him to be a VERY congenial and QUITE "down to earth" fellow, in talking about "UPTOWN, DOWNTOWN"; we got into RFWs, traditional block signals, streetcars, and, also "toid" rails.....I told him that I learned things from him that I had not known before.
Stan replied:
"You'd be surprised at how many otherwise knowledgeable enthusiasts seldom get into the intricacies of third rails."
I, also, have, in all honesty, "loined" QUITE a lot on the subject from YOURSELF as well, and always found your highly-detailed "reports" most interesting and informative!
Well, at least I DID get to talk to the legendary Stan Fischler a few times, and consider it a great honor!
Cannot believe he is now well into his 90s!
I've read his book: "CONFESSIONS OF A TROLLEY DODGER FROM BROOKLYN" too many times to count; I suggested he pen a "sequal", this time concentrating his personal recallings of Brooklyn';s subways and Els.
He thought it a good idea, but was also taking about the expenses involved, trying to find a publisher, etc., at his age......oh, well!
Indeed, "Stan The Man" LOVES his hockey, his streetcars, his Els, and his subways!
We also talked about how few today know that the Brooklyn Bridge was carried a steady parade of clattering EL trains, as well as clanging, screeching streetcars!
"NYO"
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 58 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 4329 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 7:50 am Post subject: |
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It makes me wonder what Mr. Fischler would have thought about my particular knowledge of the "toid" rails, the different types, the positioning among "divisions," and such. And what he would have thought of Lefty-Right had he seen it. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee

Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 30028 Location: NEW JOISEY
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 8:28 am Post subject: |
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W.B. Fishbowl wrote: | It makes me wonder what Mr. Fischler would have thought about my particular knowledge of the "toid" rails, the different types, the positioning among "divisions," and such. And what he would have thought of Lefty-Right had he seen it. |
W.B.:
If I might offer my own honest, unbiased opintion, IMHO, I believe that "Stan the Man" would have indeed been MOST impressed with your in-depth knowledge of "toid" rails!
Recall, he was QUITE familiar with the Els then operating in Brooklyn, not to mention the "Toid-Aven-uh" El, PLUS the subways (remember, also, the "GG" stopped right under his family's Brooklyn brownstone!)
Indeed, Your's Truly can easily picture yourself and the great Mr. Fischler getting into a VERY involved discussion on the oft-overlooked "toid rail"........
"NYO"
["DANGER! HIGH VOLTAGE!"]
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee

Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 30028 Location: NEW JOISEY
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 8:36 am Post subject: |
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W,B.:
This is an article you will really learn quite a bit, from (I know I certainly did!); indeed, Mr. Woods was quite both ingenious and most inspirational..........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Woods
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee

Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 30028 Location: NEW JOISEY
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 8:23 am Post subject: |
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Just a brief sports "nooze" update......
"AYFs", for sure are indeed NOT loving the fact that *"El-Ay" is once again in the "Woild" Series, most especially when "doze prima-donna squeakers from da Bronx" were CLOBBERED by them, last year!
*(the Dodgers have been in the "Woild" Series five times since 2017)
I gotta admit, I indeed have to say that "El-Ay" is a team you can RESPECT more than what passes for the once-great Yankees nowadays..
Oh, and, BTW, the "Kanikker-bokers" lost......guess doze animated "Globetrotters" weren't on hand to cheer them on to victory...........
"NYO"
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