Comments on: Tickets & Things…

By: lawyers in queens

lawyers in queens — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:44:58 +0000

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By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:41:25 +0000

I still remember using that first ticket you posted and the ten trip. I always enjoy looking at the artwork on the tables in the dining concourse of GCT. I love looking at the old tickets.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:10:52 +0000

I think the tickets are fantastic and interesting. Always my favorite thing is to see the defunct or changed stations like Thornwood. It was especially cool to see the Mahopac spur and the stations all the way up to Chatham on that old ticket!

By: Tyler Trahan

Tyler Trahan — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:40:24 +0000

I was recently talking with a bunch of other commuters who had been scammed by a guy who was forging monthly passes. Apparently the scam had been going on for weeks, then someone tipped off the T [in Boston] and they started scanning the passes. Those things are expensive!

I wonder if there’s some way you can send someone the artwork for a New York Central ticket and then videotape the exchange between him/her and the conductor…that would be pretty funny, I imagine!

By: Old Geezer

Old Geezer — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:42:43 +0000

Some years ago there was a sting and a bust of ticket forgers. The ticket style was the thin strip kind that you show first.

The forgers were predominantly highly-paid executive types who could easily afford the fare! Apparently “beating the system” is its own reward.

The most recent fare beater I saw in action was a young lady who got on in White Plains heading for GCT — she calmly picked up the bench ticket from my row as she walked by — apparently so she could feign having been given it by the conductor. She moved on to the next car, so I don’t know how it worked out.