Found poking through YouTube, with some help thanks to a SubChat thread that had some other videos of the same user. Cue memories here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFaqYAxDhY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFaqYAxDhY)
Wow, 1991 was a great year! Wish there was more stuff of Ride-On, WMATA, and the other municipal transit services, but this is still great stuff.
A cool retro-ride! Thanks.
thanks for sharing! wow, yeah I really wish I could go back to 1991, but as I am now and not a 1 year old baby
This is awesome. Thanks for sharing this- if only I would have had a chance to go up and see all this! I was 14 at the time and hadn't thought much about going out of town to ride other systems. Those 9300s sound BEAUTIFUL at the beginning and looked great in original second scheme.
here's an all-Breda train from 1996, before any were rehabbed. I kinda miss that buzzing sound, the 4000s just aren't the same
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Piuz7HlpR5U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Piuz7HlpR5U)
Agreed, 4000s aren't quite the same, because their buzzing is a whole lot quieter. Can still hear it inside the cars, but it's not nearly as pronounced as on the 3000s.
Also, I love that door chime. I have no recollection of that chime from my early days riding, but it's kind of cool. I think the Rohrs had a different chime, and I want to say it was the same as the first version of the Sandy Carroll door chime, just without the "Doors closing" message. I distinctly remember when first hearing that chime with the message that only the message was new and not the chime.
The whole videos-of-old-Metro also reminds me of my first and second rides on Metro. My very first trip in 1994, I had Rohrs both ways (I distinctly remember the red door-release cover), and there's a photo of me somewhere that shows me sitting down in the Rohr, with metal handrails visible. Then my second trip later that same year, I noticed that the handrails were rubber - my first Breda ride.