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Re: March 31, 1977 - The Last R-1/9 Run In Service |
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Posted by randyo on Wed Apr 4 14:59:06 2012, in response to Re: March 31, 1977 - The Last R-1/9 Run In Service, posted by Westcode44 on Wed Apr 4 01:30:55 2012. AFAIK, the door operators were not removed from the R-44s but were brand new units ordered specifically for the R-16s. The R-16 were the first major BMT/IND car order to have all electric door operators which were manufactured by the National Pneumatic Door Co and they were always troublesome. The IRT R-12s through 15s also had NP all electric door operators and unfortunately, the designers of those cars failed to account for the additional drain on the battery circuits to operate the doors and I recall many incidents of battery failure on the R-12 in their final years on the 3 Av El. How the 12s through 15s fared on the Flushing Line in their early years, I can't say but since the Corona Barn fleet was isolated from the rest of the iRT, the C & S crew there probably kept on top of things more that the rest of the IRT C & S Dept. The later IRT SMEES had door operators manufactured by Consolidated Car Heating Co and they seemed to perform better that the earlier cars. |
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