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Re: Tuscarora Almanac - April 24, 1937 - The Book of First Runs |
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Posted by randyo on Sun Apr 26 19:04:20 2015, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac - April 24, 1937 - The Book of First Runs, posted by 5119 on Sun Apr 26 09:00:14 2015. The idea of a differently geared car was not so much to attain speed but to insure that the cars could negotiate the grades in the Steinway Tunnel. Some time after the first Steinways operated, it was discovered that the gearing on the conventional Lo-Vs and Hi -Vs was actually at least as good as if not better than Steinway gearing, but the IRT found it cheaper to continue ordering cars with Steinway gearing rather than converting the Steinways to standard Lo-V gearing. |
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