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Re: Tuscarora Almanac - December 15, 1956 - The Book of First and Last Runs |
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Posted by Randyo on Wed Dec 18 15:44:43 2013, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac - December 15, 1956 - The Book of First and Last Runs, posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Wed Dec 18 03:20:48 2013. The new Bronx dual contract lines were always supposed to go to the IRT. The company, however, was upset over only being allotted the E/Pky and Nostrand lines and not the 4 Av Line which it had wanted also and withdrew from the dual contract arrangement entirely. At that point, the PSC made arrangements to assign the Lex, Pelham and Jerome lines to the BRT and since the "new" subways were being built to the larger BRT clearances, there was no problem in connecting Lex to the BRT. When the IRT realized that it would lose the potential income from the new Bronx lines, It renegotiated and reentered the dual contracts content with the sole Bkln line it had been allotted rather that lose what it perceived to be the more important Bronx Lines. During construction of the new lines the PSC realized that building IRT extensions to the larger BRT specs would be of little use since they would be connected to the "first subway" with its limited clearances so specs for the 7 Av IRT were modified to slightly larger clearances than the original subway, but not to full BRT specs of the Lex. |
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