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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 29
Sign: Gemini

City: BROOKLYN
State: NEW YORK
Country: US
Signup Date: 8/17/2006

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Saturday, August 26, 2006 

And now, some riveting entertainment.  Without further ado... the official log of the 24 hour, 2 minute trip.

Legend:
Arr - Arrival time (when the doors of the train first opened upon arriving at the station)
Dep - Departure time (when the doors of the train last closed prior to departing the station)
Est Arr or Est Dep - The arrival or departure time that we estimated based on the published schedules
+/- Min - How many minutes ahead or behind of our estimated schedule we were at any given point
* - If a * precedes the car #, this means we were on the same train as the previous row, but we had moved cars before the train turned around

There are a few rows where there is no estimated time given.  In these cases, we departed from our original route and so had no scheduled time to compare against our actual time.

In our mad dashes around Fulton St, we forgot to record whether the trains we boarded were J/Z, 4/5, or 2/3.  We did record the car numbers, however.

MySpace does not seem to be able to display this correctly as a table, so here it is as an image.

log
Nicholas

 
Congratuations on your trip. A frined of mine and I did the system back in 1975 when we were in our teens. We used the rule of covering all the track with no leaving the system. We made it in 24 hours and 35 minutes. To plan for our trip we spent days at the MTA offices poring over the schedule books, which for exact times we assumed were mostly pieces of fiction, but gave us an idea of how frequently the trains ran at different locations and hours.

One problem of comparing records is both the difference in rules followed, but also in that even lines have changed over time.

Anyway, congratualtions again.
 
Posted by Nicholas on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 7:39 PM
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