Nice video! I just retired after being a NYCTA employee for 27 years, 25 of them as a train operator (motorman). I worked the lines from that just about my whole career because I live near there. I liked the old terminal much better than this one, the current roof traps heat and noise and the view of the area is restricted by the low overhang on the east and west sides. The old station provided excellent, unobstructed views of the shore. The connection between the N platform and the Brighton line is used for light trains coming and going between Brighton Beach terminal and either Stillwell Yard or Coney Island Yard which are both accessible from Stillwell terminal. They also reroute N trains via the Q line using those tracks when there is a blockage on the N line. Stillwell terminal is very busy serving 4 lines, and the run through yard lay-ups from the B line as well. It gets congested at times.
The buildings behide is my parents home. They have been living there since 1993 and still living there. Before it was all the black folks but then the Russians came and took over those buildings and the parks near by it and named it Luna park. I was raised in stillwell ave in Brooklyn and went to high school there and know every train stations. It always makes me feel like home when I see these kinds of videos. I always miss Brooklyn more then anywhere else in New York. Thank you for the upload and it means alot to me. 👍👍😍😊❤
The change to the appearance of the station is very pleasing to the eye. I remember how it was in the 50s, when the Steeplechase was still the main attraction here in Coney Island. Departing from the trains was the fun part it was an extremely long walk down in inclined walkways to get to the street level, it was almost as good as the Steeplechase some days. During Summer months of July, August and early September, is when we came here to Coney Island, though I told my Dad once, I really rather go a Brooklyn Dodger game, but it never happened, until i had moved to Los Angeles, and was invited to a Dodger/Mets game, I think in was the World Series, as it was mid October,m 1969, finally got to the Dodgers, but my team by this time was the NY Mets! lol Go figure. Great history tour D j Hammers!
Thank you for this tour! Last time i went through Coney Island was in 86 before i moved out to Cali, so seeing the newly rebuilt station is incredible!
Great video! My uncle was a transit patrolman with the NYCTA long before the merger with NYPD, and Stillwell terminal and West 8th street station was his beat. This video brought back lots of memories of Coney Island from the '70s.
I live in NNJ and when in NYC I sometimes ride the subway. Your work, here is GREAT ! Thanks very much for all your postings ! I get so caught up in it. Sometime you should do one on how the signaling system works please. Its a bit confusing when there are single and double crossovers.
Two criticisms of your stellar work. Written captions need to be left up a little longer so we can watch the video and read the captions. Also, if you could put the captions just a little higher, they won't be covered by video info at the bottom of the screen.
Those old pictures of the Coney Island station is the Coney Island station I know! I like the unobstructed view of the old days better but more importantly, I gotta get used to the "D" train as the West End line instead of the "B" and my beloved "M" train on the brighton tracks as well as the "QB" which is now the "Q". I guess the only mainstay is the "F" and the "N" trains. I really guess I need to move back to New York or visit it regularly. Thanks for the video!
Hey DJ hammers You know as New Yorker myself born and raise in the Bronx every time I when I go to Coney Island or even see Coney Island for some reason I'm always thinking of the Gta 4 tbogt game which is one of the DLC's to the gta 4 game with Niko belic can because since the game is set in NYC but anyway before I do the missions I like to drive from Harlem which is where Luis Lopez live in the game to Coney Island and to the Bronx and back to Manhattan I so like to tour around city first before I do the missions but except in the game Coney Island is small due to the limited space that rockstar had back when gta 4 first came out back in 2008 but at least they got all the rides and entire amusement park with the beach and instead of the stillwell avenue stop being on the left side of Coney Island like it is in real life it's near the middle of the double deck Elevated structure.
Lived between Kings Hwy and Ave. U on the Brighton Line. Went to John Dewey HS from 1969-1972. Took at the time the QJ to CI and transfered to the B (West End) for one stop going in the morning. In the afternoon, a QJ train was at Bay 50th Street from John Dewey went to CI and switched from the West End to the Brighton line eliminating switching trains..very convenient. They did this I guess because a large population of the school lived along the Brighton line.
I have heard of Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue as the "anchor" to the NYC Subway system, for two reasons. First off, it is the southernmost station on the line (I believe, just look at the map). Secondly, the fact that it is terminus to 4 major lines that connect to 4 of the boroughs and its proximity to the Coney Island Yard make extremely important. Basically, if this station is closed, there is a big problem.
0:09 Actually, each island platform is the end of each of the four separate lines that terminate here and each line here is currently served by only one service. This is why each service gets its own platform as mentioned in this video. If any line had more than one service running to here, its platform would be served by more than one service and it’s currently possible by extending the G from Church Ave and the B from Brighton Beach, but those changes are unfeasible due to them having to share their terminal with the F and Q, respectively and the insufficient turning capacity.
Nice trip....I might mention it would have been neat for the author to mention the Norton's Point Line as part of the Stillwell Station terminal/transfer point...all have forgotten.
Did they completely do away with the closed deck trackways that this train station used to have? I ask this because I remember when the "dual contracts" era station was still standing. The station tracks I remember were "subway" tracks you'd see below ground. This was the 1990s early '00s. At that time, the trains were the B, D, F , N and sometimes the Q train on rare occasions. The Q train only went as far as Brighton Beach and had mainly "slant" R40 type cars.
6:31 tell me about it! Thank God for "Save Safe Seconds"! 6:38 It has to "key-by" not one, but two automatic signals (it bridges the insulated joint while the stop-arm goes down and stays down) before it can proceed to the 10-car marker, otherwise the train goes BIE (brakes in emergency) and then we're in a bit of trouble! As a train operator, I can tell you that it is a bit easier to do with New Tech equipment than it is with R46 or R68 equipment!
The "D" train has changed it's route many times. The 'Concourse-Culver' line used to be the "D" train up until some time in the 60's. The "D" train then ran down the Brighton Line (which used to be the "Q" or "QJ" IIRC). The "F" train was then extended from it's Second Ave terminal to run on the Culver line, where it remains today. Now it appears (since I've left NYC) that the West End line is now the route of the "D" train.
The D moved to the West End Line while the B moved to the Brighton Line to eliminate the need for late night or weekend shuttles to serve all the stations. The D, F, N, and Q all serve their respective lines at all times and the B provides extra express service on the Brighton Line.
why does Brooklyn gotta be so complicated like all of these companies that are historic and stuff and the Christie street connection I just don't understand all this stuff like what
DJ, in your opinion, why don't they extend the B down Brighton express to Coney Island, from it's current terminal. It must be annoying when a B train has to use one of the tracks to get to the yard. Schedule problems. Anyways, why don't they extend the B down Brighton express to Coney island.
The Brighton express has always terminated at Brighton Beach; the local continued to Coney Island. Has been so since the 50s and probably farther back than that.
The B train used to go to coney island when it ran on the west end line. Back then the Q was the Brighton Express and the D was the Brighton local. I believe in the early 2000s is when things got switched up to how things are now.
I still prefer the old station. It had an architectural soul to it. It was part of Coney Island. I'd much rather they restored what was there, because it sorely needed it. But, this has absolutely none of the character and design charm of those old stations. Just another piece of NY gone.
I heard about the (NX) train but I still don't know what the (NX) train was for. Was it replacing the (N) train or something I don't know pls reply if u know about (NX) train
For whatever reason the Sea Beach is a four-track line with no express stations that I can recall, so there's a clear shot from 59th to Stilwell on the center tracks.
vincent urena If the W train went to Coney Island it would have been useless since both the Q AND N go there. If anything the W should go to bay ridge with the R.
and is it true that the (N) train and (W) train used to have R46 but retired cause it feel down from Queens boro plaza loop and also cause they crashed to turn to Times Square PLEASE REPLY IF THE (N) USED TO HAVE R46 AND
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Nice video! I just retired after being a NYCTA employee for 27 years, 25 of them as a train operator (motorman). I worked the lines from that just about my whole career because I live near there. I liked the old terminal much better than this one, the current roof traps heat and noise and the view of the area is restricted by the low overhang on the east and west sides. The old station provided excellent, unobstructed views of the shore. The connection between the N platform and the Brighton line is used for light trains coming and going between Brighton Beach terminal and either Stillwell Yard or Coney Island Yard which are both accessible from Stillwell terminal. They also reroute N trains via the Q line using those tracks when there is a blockage on the N line. Stillwell terminal is very busy serving 4 lines, and the run through yard lay-ups from the B line as well. It gets congested at times.
+Ken Hasard Very cool! Glad you enjoyed the video!!
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@@DJHammersTrains wow your smart
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New York, USA
that final shot reminded me of my favorite movie. The Warriors
The buildings behide is my parents home. They have been living there since 1993 and still living there. Before it was all the black folks but then the Russians came and took over those buildings and the parks near by it and named it Luna park. I was raised in stillwell ave in Brooklyn and went to high school there and know every train stations. It always makes me feel like home when I see these kinds of videos. I always miss Brooklyn more then anywhere else in New York. Thank you for the upload and it means alot to me. 👍👍😍😊❤
It was bad there in the Mid 70's and 80's...alot if gangs and crime...they have rebuilt it pretty good
The change to the appearance of the station is very pleasing to the eye. I remember how it was in the 50s, when the Steeplechase was still the main attraction here in Coney Island. Departing from the trains was the fun part it was an extremely long walk down in inclined walkways to get to the street level, it was almost as good as the Steeplechase some days. During Summer months of July, August and early September, is when we came here to Coney Island, though I told my Dad once, I really rather go a Brooklyn Dodger game, but it never happened, until i had moved to Los Angeles, and was invited to a Dodger/Mets game, I think in was the World Series, as it was mid October,m 1969, finally got to the Dodgers, but my team by this time was the NY Mets! lol Go figure. Great history tour D j Hammers!
Thank you for this tour! Last time i went through Coney Island was in 86 before i moved out to Cali, so seeing the newly rebuilt station is incredible!
My hometown! And the sped up Mister Softee ice cream music in the background, lol!
GOD, do I miss Mister Softee.
The best last train station ever when me and my mom plus my sisters were going to Coney Island in the summer of 2008 when I was young! : )
was trying to look out for that Stillwell Avenue sign... like the one you see in The Warriors movie lol
missjtrep ....tje Stillwell Avenue sign is long gone....station completely renovated years ago
Great video! My uncle was a transit patrolman with the NYCTA long before the merger with NYPD, and Stillwell terminal and West 8th street station was his beat. This video brought back lots of memories of Coney Island from the '70s.
+Sam Lightbourne Cool! Very interesting!
District 34! Your uncle would tell you hes not a Transit 'Authority' PO... New York Transit Police!!!
I live in NNJ and when in NYC I sometimes ride the subway. Your work, here is GREAT ! Thanks very much for all your postings ! I get so caught up in it. Sometime you should do one on how the signaling system works please. Its a bit confusing when there are single and double crossovers.
Two criticisms of your stellar work. Written captions need to be left up a little longer so we can watch the video and read the captions. Also, if you could put the captions just a little higher, they won't be covered by video info at the bottom of the screen.
Those old pictures of the Coney Island station is the Coney Island station I know! I like the unobstructed view of the old days better but more importantly, I gotta get used to the "D" train as the West End line instead of the "B" and my beloved "M" train on the brighton tracks as well as the "QB" which is now the "Q". I guess the only mainstay is the "F" and the "N" trains. I really guess I need to move back to New York or visit it regularly. Thanks for the video!
Took the D train for most of my childhood but never took it here. What a shame.
Hey DJ hammers You know as New Yorker myself born and raise in the Bronx every time I when I go to Coney Island or even see Coney Island for some reason I'm always thinking of the Gta 4 tbogt game which is one of the DLC's to the gta 4 game with Niko belic can because since the game is set in NYC but anyway before I do the missions I like to drive from Harlem which is where Luis Lopez live in the game to Coney Island and to the Bronx and back to Manhattan I so like to tour around city first before I do the missions but except in the game Coney Island is small due to the limited space that rockstar had back when gta 4 first came out back in 2008 but at least they got all the rides and entire amusement park with the beach and instead of the stillwell avenue stop being on the left side of Coney Island like it is in real life it's near the middle of the double deck Elevated structure.
Lived between Kings Hwy and Ave. U on the Brighton Line. Went to John Dewey HS from 1969-1972. Took at the time the QJ to CI and transfered to the B (West End) for one stop going in the morning. In the afternoon, a QJ train was at Bay 50th Street from John Dewey went to CI and switched from the West End to the Brighton line eliminating switching trains..very convenient. They did this I guess because a large population of the school lived along the Brighton line.
I have heard of Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue as the "anchor" to the NYC Subway system, for two reasons. First off, it is the southernmost station on the line (I believe, just look at the map). Secondly, the fact that it is terminus to 4 major lines that connect to 4 of the boroughs and its proximity to the Coney Island Yard make extremely important. Basically, if this station is closed, there is a big problem.
0:09 Actually, each island platform is the end of each of the four separate lines that terminate here and each line here is currently served by only one service. This is why each service gets its own platform as mentioned in this video. If any line had more than one service running to here, its platform would be served by more than one service and it’s currently possible by extending the G from Church Ave and the B from Brighton Beach, but those changes are unfeasible due to them having to share their terminal with the F and Q, respectively and the insufficient turning capacity.
Always wanted to visit here after being hooked on the movie the warriors
I really like "Subway Tour" 👌👌👌
Have you planned to do a video for each line/station?
Yann Girardy Yup!
Dj Hammers cool :D ;)
Saturdays are really strange on N & D trains coming out of coney Island.
My favorite summer station.
Warriors come out to playee!
Nice work DJ!
I like the R160 picture
Nice I got to learned my favorite subway station in NYC transit
I miss the old stillwell av station Station a lot..
Those departure boards look beautiful, that's what each station platform should have
Nice trip....I might mention it would have been neat for the author to mention the Norton's Point Line as part of the Stillwell Station terminal/transfer point...all have forgotten.
Did they completely do away with the closed deck trackways that this train station used to have? I ask this because I remember when the "dual contracts" era station was still standing. The station tracks I remember were "subway" tracks you'd see below ground. This was the 1990s early '00s. At that time, the trains were the B, D, F , N and sometimes the Q train on rare occasions. The Q train only went as far as Brighton Beach and had mainly "slant" R40 type cars.
The D is temporarily cut back to bay 50th street
“No, you’r gonna take the train, yokel. You think I wanna be in a car with a peasant?” cit. Vlad from GTA IV.
I love that game
6:31 tell me about it! Thank God for "Save Safe Seconds"! 6:38 It has to "key-by" not one, but two automatic signals (it bridges the insulated joint while the stop-arm goes down and stays down) before it can proceed to the 10-car marker, otherwise the train goes BIE (brakes in emergency) and then we're in a bit of trouble! As a train operator, I can tell you that it is a bit easier to do with New Tech equipment than it is with R46 or R68 equipment!
This would be more informative if the subtitles were a larger font or better yet that it was voice narration.
thank you for the reply!
I remember seeing those signs. I don't even know how they managed to screw that up and fail to do anything about it for so long.
The "D" train has changed it's route many times. The 'Concourse-Culver' line used to be the "D" train up until some time in the 60's. The "D" train then ran down the Brighton Line (which used to be the "Q" or "QJ" IIRC). The "F" train was then extended from it's Second Ave terminal to run on the Culver line, where it remains today.
Now it appears (since I've left NYC) that the West End line is now the route of the "D" train.
The D moved to the West End Line while the B moved to the Brighton Line to eliminate the need for late night or weekend shuttles to serve all the stations. The D, F, N, and Q all serve their respective lines at all times and the B provides extra express service on the Brighton Line.
4:53 Mr. Softee Ice Cream Truck 😂
i went there this year. on september 7th. 2015.
+Rimi Das Cool!!!
+Dj Hammers the video was also cool. here is a bullet train. 🚄🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃.
@@DJHammersTrains DO LIKE GO TO amusement park in the Beach area plus the snack bar
do you know how the stillwell ave fire started? if yu do,please tell me becausd im curious
Coney Island you say that is the largest station ever I been to Coney Island still way-avenue
What do the signs say above the window
why does Brooklyn gotta be so complicated like all of these companies that are historic and stuff and the Christie street connection I just don't understand all this stuff like what
heard ice cream truck at 4:54 lol
2:57 me doing the exact same thing in openbve
DJ, in your opinion, why don't they extend the B down Brighton express to Coney Island, from it's current terminal. It must be annoying when a B train has to use one of the tracks to get to the yard. Schedule problems. Anyways, why don't they extend the B down Brighton express to Coney island.
The Brighton express has always terminated at Brighton Beach; the local continued to Coney Island. Has been so since the 50s and probably farther back than that.
The B train used to go to coney island when it ran on the west end line. Back then the Q was the Brighton Express and the D was the Brighton local. I believe in the early 2000s is when things got switched up to how things are now.
I always wonder why they won't extend just to Ocean Parkway since that station has the same amount of tracks at Brighton. 🤔
ArsènePicaro Crew rooms already exist at Brighton Beach, while none exist at Ocean Pkwy. Plus ridership doesn’t warrant it at this time.
Good idea of yours but im doing a series that is called State of the track
I came here because of The Warriors
I wen't to the coney island Beach the same day i went there
+Rimi Das Cool!
I still prefer the old station. It had an architectural soul to it. It was part of Coney Island. I'd much rather they restored what was there, because it sorely needed it. But, this has absolutely none of the character and design charm of those old stations. Just another piece of NY gone.
I heard about the (NX) train but I still don't know what the (NX) train was for. Was it replacing the (N) train or something I don't know pls reply if u know about (NX) train
Roblox and transit NX was a sea beach express.
For whatever reason the Sea Beach is a four-track line with no express stations that I can recall, so there's a clear shot from 59th to Stilwell on the center tracks.
Nice I wish that the W trains go to Coney island
W trains going to Whitehall Street
vincent urena If the W train went to Coney Island it would have been useless since both the Q AND N go there. If anything the W should go to bay ridge with the R.
Yeah it replaced the B on the West End Line from 01-04, and then the D came back to Brooklyn on the West End Line.
5:36 R160 (F) Train Terminating
Whattt I was born in 2014
and is it true that the (N) train and (W) train used to have R46 but retired cause it feel down from Queens boro plaza loop and also cause they crashed to turn to Times Square PLEASE REPLY IF THE (N) USED TO HAVE R46 AND
Can i catch the train to Coney Island from broadway times square new york?
+Andre Gilbert Yeah, you can take the Q or N trains.
if it isn't true then why do (N) trains don't use R46
Roblox and transit It can't, it's impossible.
Ariel Gonzalez why?
@@arielgonzalez5296 the N train ran R44's and R46's back then.
@@michaelmorales1475 true.
@@arielgonzalez5296 I once saw a r46 B train
The train r a miracle
it's kind of noisy
Aiden Abril not nearly what it was 40 years ago
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Roblox and transit
You almost like my wallpaper
Well done.