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Posted by MainR3664 on Wed Nov 5 07:04:45 2014, in response to Re: What year were wooden cars finally banned from subway tunnels?, posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 01:49:00 2014. The third rail was the answer.The third rail on the "elevated" lines was shaped differently- taller and thinner, I think, and had no protection board (the wood plank you see above the third rail). As some of the pros on here have explained, the Sedgwick tunnel was built too narrow to accommodate the wider subway-type third rail. At the time the bulk of the 9th Avenue El was closed, there were half-hearted thoughts of tying the line into the subway, but that would have required expensive modifications to the tunnel. With the dropping of the plans to tie the line to the subway and the loss of the baseball Giants, there was, to "the powers that were" no justification for retaining the shuttle and especially not expensive modifications to the tunnel. And here we are... |
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