lionel1933 posted:During the snow storm of 12-26-1947 the subways were kept running their routes continuously as well as all the L's!! However the LIRR operations were in terrible shape. For instance passengers were marooned for 2 days without power and heat. Joe I've lived all my life in Astoria except for military time. I enjoy your knowledgeable comments and remarks. Keeps my memory going. Thanks again Joe F!
My mom told a story about that snowstorm, she was working downtown and commuted from the northeast Bronx (the Esplanade station, that 40 years later I was commuting from going to the Financial district), and talking about coming out of the subway and stepping into snow drifts that were over her waist (and she was pretty tall for the times,around 5ft 6"). Amazing they could keep the transit going through that (it was officially close to 26"), seems like we get much lower snowstorms and it cripples transit , I remember years ago my uncle and his family got stuck on the 2 train at 180th coming back from a broadway show, and it wasn't particularly that big a storm. I don't know if they are more cautious today and shut the system down out of safety concerns/lawsuits, but also seems like the trains are affected more than they were back then, and that was a time when the subways were running at capacity, I think it matched what we have today on the subways in NYC.
