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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Aug 31 01:42:58 2014, in response to Re: Bronx D Train Question, posted by FtGreeneG on Sun Aug 31 01:12:06 2014. All I can offer is the way that it worked in 1971 since I last worked the D. We had arnines primarily and 32's, and one of the nice things about arnines is that you could do a handle out on one end, stay charged, drop the handle on the other end, release and go. That cut down seriously on relay time going into and coming out of the relay if you didn't have a switchman on the other end.We'd pull in, drop 'em off, go into the relay, back out, open up and go to BPB. Bonus if you were quick because that gave you more fallback time. Normally, it was fall back two so that was bonus. :) With the newer equipment where you had to dump, recharge, go in, dump again and change ends, that time added up more so than in the past. But you still got out of 205 as quickly as you could open up and go. I'm sure it's still some variation on that theme today, the faster you can get to BPB, the more time you had to go upstairs, grab a sammich, or see what was on the groove tube in the crew room before it was you to go on the stand. :) But that outbound was schduled, BPB was the actual terminal regardless of what time you landed there S/B. |
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