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By Dan Rattiner Week of October 29-November 4, 2010 Riders this week: 8,411 Rider miles this week: 86,426 DOWN IN THE TUBE Alan Alda and Steven Spielberg, two of our favorite people, took the subway from East Hampton to Water Mill last Thursday afternoon. SANTA CLAUS IS COMING!! Plans are underway to have Santa make his holiday parade on the subway system as he does every year. Santa will be coming in by helicopter to the Montauk Subway yards early on Sunday morning December 12. He arrives just before dawn, at 5:45 a.m., so if you want your kids to see him hop out of the cockpit, you have to be out there early to enjoy the occasion. Best viewing spot is up on Fort Hill in front of the Montauk Manor, looking down at Fort Pond. Use cameras with nighttime lenses. Santa boards the special parade train, squeezing into the little motorman’s booth with the motorman, at 6 a.m. and leaves Montauk at 6:30. This is an extra train. It does not interfere with the regularly scheduled subway trains. Fully decorated with
bells, garlands, tiny red and green lights, silver and gold balls and Christmas tree holly, it will go at half speed along the entire route, the full 60 miles, without stopping and then, arriving back at Montauk it will do it again and again. Take your kid down to any platform. At hour and a half intervals, the special train will pass—you will recognize it by its stuffed reindeer display in the front, its big Christmas star on the forehead of the lead car, the Christmas music and sleigh bell jingling and Santa and the motorman, waving and smiling as it goes along at half speed. Behind them will be eight cars, four filled with elves and four filled with Christmas presents. And that’s it. As we said, the train will not stop. Don’t try to make it do that either. Instead, you and your kids will get a tantalizing glimpse of Santa as he is driven around. And in the end, if you go down to the Westhampton Beach station, you will find that the tenth time through, around 5 p.m., the Santa parade train will stop at that station and there will be—no Santa! Instead, squeezing out of the motorman’s booth will be just Motorman Ronnie Blake and his good friend Jeff, who lives in the area. Jeff will be carrying a big
white sack which he says will be filled with baked goods that he is delivering to the Beach Bake Shop in that town. He does that every year. Santa, however, will have been gathered up by the real reindeer between Quiogue and Quogue and flown away. MOTORMAN RONNIE BLAKE SELECTED As we do every year, we select the skinniest motorman to be the driver of the Santa train. Weight doesn’t matter. It’s the ratio between height and width. This year’s winner is Ronnie Blake, who is 6 foot 2, but really, really skinny. He finished second in the competition last year. Way to go Ronnie. HAMPTON SUBWAY TO GET BACKUP ELECTRICITY In the event of a region wide blackout, rest assured that the Hampton Subway will still run on time. As this is written, negotiations are underway which we believe will be successful to have the new Hook Mill Windmill Power Station in East Hampton hooked up into the subway electric system when completed. Since the entrance to the subway in East Hampton is just a few hundred yards from Hook Mill, the amount of heavy-duty underground feeder line will need to be minimal. COMMISSIONER ASPINALL’S MESSAGE Just a reminder when taking your kids trick or treating on Sunday to be careful when walking down the tracks underground from station to station of the third rail. We don’t want any repeats of what happened last Halloween.
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