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Re: Tuscarora Almanac - October 16, 1922 - The Book of First Runs |
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Posted by randyo on Sat Oct 18 16:17:54 2014, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac - October 16, 1922 - The Book of First Runs, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Fri Oct 17 20:27:45 2014. Unmodified Gibbs cars had to be at the ends of the trains but in the mid 1930s, the last 150 or so Gibbs cars were converted to MUDC so that they could be used anywhere in the train. It was IRT policy to keep the Gibbs cars on the local lines since their vestibules were slightly smaller than those on later cars. By the mid 1930s, most of the Hedley motors were MUDC and ran on the Bway Exp leaving the more labor intensive Gibbs cars to do lcl service. By converting a number of Gibbs cars to MUDC the company was able to eliminate the extra C/Rs required to operate the doors and at the same time keep the Gibbs cars primarily on the lcls. After city takeover, It seems that police was ignored to some extent and I recall seeing a number of manual door Gibbs cars on the ends of the Bway exp trains. |
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