I made this view on Ektachrome during a March 2003 visit to New York City’s Flushing Line with photographer Pat Yough.
In 1968, my father brought me on a trip over the Flushing Line making it one of my earliest memories of railway travel.
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I was on bright morning in 1978 that I made these black & white photos with my old Leica 3A fitted with a Nikkor 35mm lens.
I was standing with my father and brother on a Long Island Rail Road platform near Sunnyside yard. I was about 12 at the time.
My subject was the graffiti covered Flushing Line subway train.
30 years earlier my father made photos of New Haven Railroad EP4 electrics and Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 electrics from near this same spot!
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It was April 26, 1984 when my brother and I embarked on big tour of the New York City Subway in Queens and Brooklyn.
I made this view from the front of an outbound train on the Astoria Line. On the middle track was an RR train heading toward Queens Plaza and beyond. This was during the era when the subway was still covered in grafitti.
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