Today, I had a nice afternoon trying to finish off the Eastern Division but was cut short by my idiotness by forgetting to charge my camera’s battery, so I’ll have to back to M and L lines for only three more stations, oh well.
The first priority of the day was finishing off the Fulton Street local stops, I only had one left (the rest I took last summer, and will probably be the next to come from my archive). I got on the A train took it to Hoyt-Schmerhorn to transfer to a C train, actually the C train didn’t come before another A train did so I took that to Nostrand Avenue and walked downstairs to continue waiting for a C train that I took to Rockaway Avenue, the one station I needed, I did a full photo essay by exiting from the exit at one side of the station and walked down Fulton Street to the other entrance, and continuing on to Broadway Junction.
At Broadway Junction I took the series of stairs and escalators up to the L train and noticed that the Rockaway Parkway-bound platform seemed unusually crowded, turned out the trains were backed up so the next L train (a R143 set) was sent on a battery run, which I gladly accepted skipping all stops to Canarsie. I hopped on that and the automated “This is…” announcement played for every station we bypassed, running non-stop to Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway, where I got off, did a photo essay of the station, and walked the short distance to the next stop East 105 Street. After doing a photo essay of East 105 Street, I got on a train and took it another stop to New Lots Av, this stop got another photo essay and I did leave the system there briefly to get a photo of the unusual entrance to the station house. I then hoped on the next train and took it to Hewes Street, where I did a partial photo essay I intended to simply walk down Wycoff Avenue from one end of the station to the other exit from the station but got turned around and ended up walking right to the Myrtle Av-Wycoff Avenue Station complex, so I took some exterior photos before turning and walking north underneath the Myrtle Avenue el to Seneca Avenue where I did a full photo essay before re boarding the train. On this walk I was trying to figure out where the Brooklyn, Queens boarder was, usually you can tell by the house numbers changing from Brooklyn’s which are simple numbers like everywhere else in this county to Queen’s strange 45-42 system, but the numbers didn’t seem to change here.
Next stop was a the terminal Metropolitan Avenue that got a photo essay including one of the exterior of the station house, before I took a train one stop south to Fresh Pond Road. On this trip I noticed that my R160s FIND was permanently stuck saying Marcy Ave was the next stop on a Metropolitan Avenue-bound train. I was sitting in the front car and altered the T/O has she entered her cab, who took a look at it and said “That sometimes Happens”, the rest of the automated announcements, exterior signs, and the other interior signs were working fine.
At Fresh Pond Road I got off and got almost through my photo essay, did leave fare control to until my camera started freezing up and I realized the battery had died, so that proptly ended my day. I got home by taking the M back to Myrtle-Wycoff transferring the L that I took to 14 St-8 Av where I had just missed an A train and had to wait quite a long time before the next one which was an R32, even though I had ridden others on previous days I stood on it thinking how quite soon there will be no more SMEE class trains left with their black not all that comfortable bench seats, and front railfan windows, and not even any subway cars that are in married pairs, all would be five car sets minus the Flushing Line’s single cars so it can run eleven car trains.
Number of MetroCard Swipes for the record: 8 total for the day