OMG! Thank you for this! Not only is the Breda train you featured have the original motors before refurbishment, but the original chimes for this series! They went back and replaced that chime with the one you hear in the Rohr train at the 2:30 mark. Both chimes added a “doors closing” after this, and then were changed again with the Randi Miller redo in the early 2000’s. These sounds were my childhood in the 1980’s riding Metro. ❤
@@subwaymark One more thing I just noticed: at Metro Center 2:02, those station layout guides were also in Gallery Place (pre-MCI/Verizon Center) and in L'Enfant Plaza. I don't remember when they were removed but they were original to the stations when they opened. They're no longer there. I remember people used to lean on them when waiting for trains. 😆
Even in 2023, it feels like it is modern day! I remember those sounds when I visited in 1996 and 1998 as a teenager! It’s amazing that it’s so consistent over the years!
0:34 weird to see a shorter consist at a non-terminal station leave space in FRONT rather than behind as they do today Nice footage and Queensboro Plaza trailer!
I thought it was odd when I was in DC a couple of years ago that the shorter trains would stop at the end of the platform, even when the station exit was at the other end.
That changed as a result of the 2009 crash between Ft Totten and Brookland/CUA. Most underground stations still have the markers "2/4/6/8" for where a train of various lengths would stop to center the train in the station. After June 2009, all Metro trains were instructed to stop at the head of the station. It was annoying for six-car trains where you would have to run to the back because you stood in an empty spot. One station, Gallery Place/Chinatown, even had a marked space on the Red Line platforms (toward Shady Grove) telling you not to wait there if a six-car train was coming because that was the spot where the escalators for the Green/Yellow Line platform one flight below were.
At 2:40. It was very cool to hear the pre rehab 1000 series trains. It looks like the interior was refurbished before the motors were upgraded as I noticed that the first couple of cars had the refurbished interior while the cars in the back had the pre refurbished interior.
Yes and in fact, the 1Ks had the same propulsion as the MTA R46 prior to rebuild and the door closing chimes are exactly the same as the R46, R44, R62/68!
Yeah they did, they both used camshaft dc motors before their upgrades to alstom onix for 2000 series and General 4P Electric for the Rohrs.@@subwaymark
@@subwaymark And OG Rohr noises are hard to come by nowadays, I always search for sounds to use for my dc metro game that takes place in 1997, videos of it are on my channel.
That was two years before I was born! I remember riding in those trains in the 2000s though! I lived in New England from the time I was born ('94) to 2001, but I'm sure I rode the Metro in the 90s, but I don't remember it, but I do remember the first time riding the Metro into DC after I moved to Northern Virginia in 2001, which was where I grew up, but I still consider New England home. I have seen the transformation of the Metro and now we have fancy 7000 series trains (and will have 8000 series trains too sometime in the near future) and have a new line, the silver line, that goes out to Loudoun County including to Dulles International Airport that ends in Ashburn, VA and going east to Largo, MD. I live on the last western stop of the Orange Line, Vienna/Fairfax GMU (I go to GMU, too). George Mason University, better known as just "Mason." I'm still an Undergrad, but getting very close to graduating! They are fading out the older trains and have gotten rid of the 1000-2000 series trains. Just FYI, we don't add Washington when talking about the city; we just simply say "DC." "Yeah, I'm going into DC today", "I work in DC", etc, as you will hear people say in the area.
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0:47 breda 2000/3000/4000 series closing chime
2:35 rohr 1000 series closing chime
I like both of those chimes
Also 2:35
R44/R46/R62/R62A/R68/R68A Door Chime
1970s: 2 car train
1980s: 4 car train
1990s 2000s 2010s and 2020s 6 or 8 car train
OMG! Thank you for this! Not only is the Breda train you featured have the original motors before refurbishment, but the original chimes for this series! They went back and replaced that chime with the one you hear in the Rohr train at the 2:30 mark. Both chimes added a “doors closing” after this, and then were changed again with the Randi Miller redo in the early 2000’s.
These sounds were my childhood in the 1980’s riding Metro. ❤
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@@subwaymark One more thing I just noticed: at Metro Center 2:02, those station layout guides were also in Gallery Place (pre-MCI/Verizon Center) and in L'Enfant Plaza. I don't remember when they were removed but they were original to the stations when they opened. They're no longer there. I remember people used to lean on them when waiting for trains. 😆
I was there in 1977-1978, it is fascinating to see what has changed, and what looks the same. Nice video. Thanks for posting!
Glad you enjoyed it
Even in 2023, it feels like it is modern day! I remember those sounds when I visited in 1996 and 1998 as a teenager! It’s amazing that it’s so consistent over the years!
I love the sounds too!
0:34 weird to see a shorter consist at a non-terminal station leave space in FRONT rather than behind as they do today
Nice footage and Queensboro Plaza trailer!
I thought it was odd when I was in DC a couple of years ago that the shorter trains would stop at the end of the platform, even when the station exit was at the other end.
That changed as a result of the 2009 crash between Ft Totten and Brookland/CUA. Most underground stations still have the markers "2/4/6/8" for where a train of various lengths would stop to center the train in the station. After June 2009, all Metro trains were instructed to stop at the head of the station. It was annoying for six-car trains where you would have to run to the back because you stood in an empty spot. One station, Gallery Place/Chinatown, even had a marked space on the Red Line platforms (toward Shady Grove) telling you not to wait there if a six-car train was coming because that was the spot where the escalators for the Green/Yellow Line platform one flight below were.
That guy was looking at the circular map like he didn’t have it on his phone.
LOL
🤣🤣🤣
At 2:40. It was very cool to hear the pre rehab 1000 series trains. It looks like the interior was refurbished before the motors were upgraded as I noticed that the first couple of cars had the refurbished interior while the cars in the back had the pre refurbished interior.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I love the sounds of the pre-rehab cars
Yes and in fact, the 1Ks had the same propulsion as the MTA R46 prior to rebuild and the door closing chimes are exactly the same as the R46, R44, R62/68!
I Think The 1000 Series Before They Can Get Rehabbed To A LA A1650 Sound. They Sounded Like The Pre-Rehab 2000 Series
interesting
That's original 1000 series they have the original soud from 1976-1996 they were changed into a new sound la a1650 sound in 1996
@@andreivillasana2798 That is what i am saying
@@andreivillasana2798 wait, they didn't always sound like that???
Do you think the lacmta a650 has the 4000 series breda Propulsion
bet i could handle being on the metro by myself as a 11 yr old 💀
Metro is not bad.
I rode on it by myself at 6
I believe the rohrs before rehab in this sounded just like the 2000 series breda cars before their overhaul
I did not know that.
Yeah they did, they both used camshaft dc motors before their upgrades to alstom onix for 2000 series and General 4P Electric for the Rohrs.@@subwaymark
Holy crap OG Rohr Motors
They do have a unique sound!
@@subwaymark And OG Rohr noises are hard to come by nowadays, I always search for sounds to use for my dc metro game that takes place in 1997, videos of it are on my channel.
@@subwaymark I miss em.
@@subwaymark You got anymore 90s metro footage?
Sadly no, I posted pretty much all of my 90's vintage metro footage
What model and year is that train at 0:58?
I believe those are the pre-rehab 1000 series cars.
Thanks!
That was the pre-rehab 3000 series cars
Wow it sounded like Baltimore metro???
Similar propulsion system.
Man, I used to love those circular display maps....
I do too!
I think there still is one of those on the upper platform at L'Enfant Plaza
@@CaradhrasAiguo49 I actually saw one myself!
2:35 this one has MTA NYC subway door chime R62/R62A R68/R68A and R44 and R46
I heard that too!
Unlike those cars, where the trains close their doors immediately when the chime plays
The chime plays first before the doors close
That was two years before I was born! I remember riding in those trains in the 2000s though! I lived in New England from the time I was born ('94) to 2001, but I'm sure I rode the Metro in the 90s, but I don't remember it, but I do remember the first time riding the Metro into DC after I moved to Northern Virginia in 2001, which was where I grew up, but I still consider New England home. I have seen the transformation of the Metro and now we have fancy 7000 series trains (and will have 8000 series trains too sometime in the near future) and have a new line, the silver line, that goes out to Loudoun County including to Dulles International Airport that ends in Ashburn, VA and going east to Largo, MD. I live on the last western stop of the Orange Line, Vienna/Fairfax GMU (I go to GMU, too). George Mason University, better known as just "Mason." I'm still an Undergrad, but getting very close to graduating! They are fading out the older trains and have gotten rid of the 1000-2000 series trains. Just FYI, we don't add Washington when talking about the city; we just simply say "DC." "Yeah, I'm going into DC today", "I work in DC", etc, as you will hear people say in the area.
Very cool to here!
2:35 HMMMM
This Is Before The Randi Miller Door Chimes We're Added In The Mid 2000's
I like to old door chimes
The Randi Miller version is my favorite!
@@S-CB-SL-Animations Me Too