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Re: Tuscarora Almanac - December 15, 1956 - The Book of First and Last Runs |
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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Tue Dec 17 01:11:06 2013, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac - December 15, 1956 - The Book of First and Last Runs, posted by Randyo on Tue Dec 17 00:26:53 2013. Hello again Rando --Well, I gave you the information from my files - and for you who doesn't have nor provide any opposing facts or answers, you certainly are stating an unsubstantiated negative ("absolutely NOTHING") that you can't or won't substantiate to disprove !! By the way, the IRT Manhattan Railway Co. "Division" and the Interborough Subways were two separate legal entities under the Interborough consolidated operations. Both for equipment, crews, union and seniority matters between both "entities". My (late) father worked for the "Manhattan Railway Division" of the IRT, by the way, in the 1930's-40's ! After a short stint as a EL Station agent, and later as a Station master, he went into a Management position working out of the company offices located at the E.99th St EL Yards of the 3rd Ave EL. So I got plenty of internal and tech data info from him thru the decades. Sorry if you want to disagree, heh ! You can believe what you want to, Randyo...your choice ! Regardless of what you think, the IRT did it how their engineering and power distribution staff wanted to, and the BMT did their own engineering thing. How or why they did, or did not, is really moot at this late time in history, heh ! Also, the IRT EL Lines built as IRT subway line expansion extensions under DUAL Ccontracts for the IRT, were built for subway cars using paddle shoes. The IRT West Farms EL Line, however, was service-initiated initially for some time by Manhattan Railway "Division" Wooden EL Trains and crews BEFORE the subway trains began to run on it. Thus it was fitted with EL Style 3rd rails initially for Elevated trains, and later subway style duplicate Covered 3rd rails for subway trains later. And that process continued for the Jerome Line, for the 9th Ave El 1917-18 connections, and both IRT Queens EL's, period. regards - Joe F |
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