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Posted by Joe V on Thu Feb 23 19:10:06 2012, in response to Re: ACMU Page On Wikipedia, posted by Olog-hai on Thu Feb 23 18:57:22 2012. Big difference between LIRR and pre-MN is that a higher percentage of the pre-MTA MU fleet on MN was post war, as opposed to the LIRR.It took just 500 M-1's to finish off the MP54, but the next 120 got rid of 60 MP70's, 20 MP70T's, and 44 T72 converted to push pull. The Vickers/GE order of 150 M-1's in 1972 finished off the 128 remaining MP72 and MP75 cars, which got gradually got converted to push pull until 1979. MTA needed just 78 M1a's to replace pre-war MU's, then got another 100 to replace the 1000's, but never bothered replacing the 1100's (until the M-7), but had they done so with the M-1a, it would have been another 80 or so. So 65% of the LIRR M-1's were needed to replace pre-war MU's. Had MTA bought sufficient M-1a's to replace everything as they did on the LIRR, there would have been about 258 M1a's, but only 30% needed to replace pre-war cars. That is probably why they got ruthless with the 1000s - make a bigger new car splash. |
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