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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 15:11:25 2012, in response to Re: March 31, 1977 - The Last R-1/9 Run In Service, posted by CJ on Wed Apr 4 03:32:55 2012. I think that one of the reasons the R-16s ended up on the Jamaica Line was the size of the car order. 200 cars was about the right number to supply the Jamaica Line with possibly some left over for a few trains on the other Eastern Div Lines. In 1956 shortly before the Fulton St el shut sow, I rode a train of R-16s on the 14 St Line on a Sunday even though the Multis were the usual equipment that ran on the 14 St Line to Canarsie during off peak hours. Around that time, however, there were 50 R-16s on the IND A line and the R-10s on loan to the BMT were still in service there and shortly after the demise of the Fulton St el, i saw a train of R-10s in service on the 14 St Line. There wouldn't have been enough R-16s to completely equip the A Line and although there was talk of transferring the R-16s to the Southern Div, nothing came of it again probably because there weren't enough R-16 to fully equip any of the Southern Div lines. There were probably no IND lines at the time that could have been fully equipped with R-16s except possibly the AA/BB and It probably wasn't deemed appropriate to have the newest cars on a local line while the A would be running with slightly older equipment. |
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