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Posted by randyo on Fri Aug 10 14:37:01 2012, in response to Re: NYC Subway Division, posted by renee gil on Fri Aug 10 12:01:20 2012. The original HH was supposed to be a Fulton St lcl operating between Court St and Bway/ENY, however it only operates as a single tk shuttle between Court and Hoyt 7AM - 7PM Mon - Sat. At least one of the museum R-9s has a map showing the Court to ENY service but the shuttle ceased operation before the Fulton St Line was extended to ENY. That map also shows the IND open to Euclid which dates it to 1948 2 years after the shuttle ceased operation. When the Rockaway shuttles started operating in 1956, they carried the letter of whatever through service operated to the Rockaways during rush hours. Sometimes it was A and sometimes it was E. When the late trainmaster George Abere was a M/M on the Rockaway Division circa 1960, he argued that the shuttles were neither A nor E trains and suggested that the unused HH designation be used for the Rockaway shuttles since both the R-9s and R-10s used on those lines had HH signs. The head of the TA's Transportation Dept agreed and from about 1960 on, HH became the official designation for the Rockaway Shuttles. The original side signs on the R-9s read HH/Fulton St Local which although not entirely correct was accurate enough since the shuttles did operate on what was officially the IND Fulton St Line even though that portion of the line operated along Liberty and Pitkin Aves. As new signs were being ordered, they read HH/Rockaway Shuttle and the latest signs read H/Rockaway Shuttle although those signs are not used on nay of the Rock Pk shuttles in actual practice. |
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