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Posted by ren on Thu Dec 24 03:44:05 2015, in response to Re: PATH 143 arrives at TMNY, posted by Joe V on Wed Dec 23 18:27:56 2015. Concerning an R-10, here is yet another example of the foolishness that took place at TMNY. As you know, there are only two R-10s in existence. McGinty and Erik Garces, the new president at TMNY, had this scheme which they were pursuing with the Transit Museum in Brooklyn. TMNY would swap out their Low-V in exchange for either a redbird, an R-40 slant, or an R-10. The way they described it, negotiations were underway between TMNY and Brooklyn, but the outgoing president in Brooklyn would not commit to a trade because she did not want to tie the hands of the incoming president, according to what Garces told me. Later, he informed us that Brooklyn added another condition: TMNY would have to pay the freight for both cars, the Low-V and whichever one TMNY wanted.Garces told me that the Transit Museum in Brooklyn coveted TMNY's Low-V because it is a motor car, and Brooklyn needs another motor to their Low-V consist so it can handle inclines without stalling. Garces told me that Brooklyn was still kicking itself for having let another Low-V get away to either Shoreline or Branford, I forget which. So they wanted TMNY's Low-V. IMHO, they might as well do it. Only 207 or Coney can restore that Low-V. Right now it is derelict and non-functioning. You oughta see the inside of it, I have pictures. It's appalling the amount of neglect that has ravaged that car. TMNY has repeatedly proven that it cannot maintain its fleet. They lost the PATH black cars, and they lost the last surviving Queensborough Bridge trolley. Now they've added another car at very considerable expense and talking about building a shed for it while the BMT Q type they have rots outdoors under a tarp. They haven't even looked under that tarp in YEARS, let alone done any work on it. God knows what's underneath by now. Remember, that car was all wood. Not a penny was spent to restore it, as far as I know. Garces had another great idea: when I told him I might be taking woodworking courses, he wanted us to rebuild the Q type's wood structure, piece by piece, replacing whatever needed replacing. This kind of project would need ten woodworkers working for six months. Last winter, he had the idea to clear out the Low-V and touch it up in time for summer. The interior of that Low-V is in such bad shape that something like that could not be done with the limited staff and time the vounteers gave. We were only able to come up once a month, and that for only one day. That kind of commitment is way insufficient to restore the severe neglect inside the Low-V. And they constantly talk about electrification when there is nothing there that is capable of running from an external 600 volt source. The R-16's trucks are still water damaged from Sandy. To light the inside of that car, they have to plug an extension cord to an outdoor outlet and use add-on lights because the electrical components inside are still inoperable. So any talk about pairing PATH 143 to the R-16 is silly when the R-16 doesn't work and there is no electrification and no money for anything. |
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