Comments on: The Harlem Line, and the color blue https://www.iridetheharlemline.com/2012/09/21/the-harlem-line-and-the-color-blue/ Art, history, railroad, & photography adventures from Harlem & beyond. Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:26:40 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sunny https://www.iridetheharlemline.com/2012/09/21/the-harlem-line-and-the-color-blue/comment-page-1/#comment-266382 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:26:40 +0000 http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/?p=7680#comment-266382 In reply to Bob.

LIRR still has form numbers on all timetables, regular or trackwork. Look on the bottom right hand corner of the back side of a properly folded timetable or card.

]]> By: Bob https://www.iridetheharlemline.com/2012/09/21/the-harlem-line-and-the-color-blue/comment-page-1/#comment-266045 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:03:40 +0000 http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/?p=7680#comment-266045 In reply to Matthew Mitchell.

Looks like the LIRR form numbers are gone too, but I hadn’t noticed they were gone even from Metro-North until Emily pointed it out.

Yeah, I noticed they were trying some color again after going all black / grey / white. I will say that for those of us not familiar with SEPTA, trying to plan weekend train trips, the R-numbers were confusing as all heck since each R-number required 2 timetables and almost no weekend trains ran on the same R-number on both the PRR & Reading sides. Not quite as confusing as SEPTA’s fare structure, but then again not much is. The new timetables where they specify which line the train continues to or comes from are kind of nice.

]]> By: Matthew Mitchell https://www.iridetheharlemline.com/2012/09/21/the-harlem-line-and-the-color-blue/comment-page-1/#comment-265616 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:20:58 +0000 http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/?p=7680#comment-265616 I think you still see form numbers on the LIRR timetables, or at least you did as of the last time I looked.

As for colors, SEPTA really screwed the pooch a coupla years ago when they did away with their “R-numbers” and color coding of timetables. Now we have little colored bands on the tops of our timetables that make no sense whatsoever.

]]> By: Backshophoss https://www.iridetheharlemline.com/2012/09/21/the-harlem-line-and-the-color-blue/comment-page-1/#comment-264266 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:26:20 +0000 http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/?p=7680#comment-264266 The “busatition” nightmare during the Electrification, this
was done during the “Major Construction” phase.
Plenty of trenches for feeders to the 3rd rail,building of all high-
level platforms,3rd rail installation,and the buildout of CP Chap +
CP Gold.
Also final buildout of the substations.
Was not a “fun” time for ridership as well

]]> By: Joe https://www.iridetheharlemline.com/2012/09/21/the-harlem-line-and-the-color-blue/comment-page-1/#comment-264181 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:44:13 +0000 http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/?p=7680#comment-264181 Can you post more timetable pics like above? Not just the covers. More specifically – 1980s up until 2000ish.

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