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Posted by coneyisl on Mon Jun 29 18:26:54 2015, in response to Re: Where was 1575 during the festivities?, posted by Mark S. Feinman on Mon Jun 29 14:34:59 2015. You are correct. D train assignments from 78 and into the 80's shifted many times. For a period of time R-10s ran midday. They might have originally been called upon to dance the "Essex Street Shuffle" when cracks were first found on the North side of the Manhattan Bridge. I don't think 75 footers could navigate their way through the old downtown BMT to get to the Montague Tunnel (which ruled out R-44s). At least so I have been told. If anybody has been on the Yeti Ride at Disney World, that's kind of like what the Essex Street Shuffle felt like, albeit a bit slower (and without the Yeti). As a teenager it was a delight when an R-10 set pulled into 47-50th for the jaunt to Brighton Beach; but I remember sitting in the cars, looking around, trying to imagine what they would have been like when they were new. The motors strained their way up the hill from Newkirk to Avenue H, but it was fun just being there! Heck, at times it felt like the R-44s were straining their way up that hill too. R42/R40ms? No problem! |
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