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Posted by randyo on Sun Jul 15 19:22:02 2012, in response to Re: Railfan windows return to the 7, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Sat Jul 14 18:57:07 2012. The R-62s and also the 68s as I mentioned in another post were ll supposed to be able to be convertible from corner to transverse cabs but the design on the 68s was changed to the cab and a half during manufacture. As for the cars being delivered as single units, it seems that the NYCTA new car engineering dept in the late 1970s/early 1980s was so disenchanted with any kind of unitization at the time due to the problems with drilling R-44s and 46s in yards that they overreacted and specified single cars. After Gunn and Kiley took over in 1983, attitudes changed and eventually, the new administration did some research and experimentation and eventually decided on unitization as a cost saving measure. |
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