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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Sun Jun 17 10:34:08 2012, in response to Re: Grumman 870 history in NYC, posted by regent23 on Sun Jun 17 08:56:57 2012. City as in NYCTA?David Gunn, president of NYCTA decided to prematurely remove them from service. The City of New York had no input as MTA, the parent agency, is a state entity. They were no worse than the RTS because some of them burnt up prematurely too. I specificially a 1982 RTS, I believe the # was 1633 a Staten island unit, that was destroyed by fire, stored at Fesh Pond Yard for years, keeping company with older beese that had faithfully served out their careers. David Gunn did not like Grummans, he wasn't in charge when they were ordered, and he wanted them out. He may have bought subway equipment into a state of good repair, but deep down he was a power freak. He is the reason why we have so many superintendants in NYCT, they're a dime a dozen, falling all over each other. I long for the old days when the dispatcher was in charge and he told the trainmaster what he did. But I digress into SubChat territory. |
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