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Posted by randyo on Tue Jan 5 16:52:20 2016, in response to Re: Service Patterns, posted by New Flyer #857 on Tue Jan 5 09:51:09 2016. At the time M, QB and RR used R-27/30s with an occasional R-42. The rule at Stl was that if a QB went BO on the stand, an M would have its signs changed and would be operated as a QB and the M interval abd. Similar procedures applied at 95 St so that the RR Nassau specials would not be dropped but a regular Rr would become the special and raw RR Bway would be dropped. Most of the QBs were operated by M crews, but there were some unique variations in the timetables and work programs between the M and RR. Since around there late 1970s, the RR need an extra train to accommodate increasing ridership, the first 2 QBs would operate up the Astoria line, 1 to Astoria and 1 to Qnsbro Plz where they would be turned south and operate S/B as RRs. If I recall, one of them would operate to Canal St and lay up and the other would operate through to 95 St. In the PM the process was reversed except that both RRs operated through to Astoria where they turned S/B and became the last 2 QBs. As to whether M or RR crews would operate those QBs it depended on which would be the most productive when the work programs were being prepared. On some picks, an RR crew operating to Astoria would operate one of the QBs back to Stl usually as a last trip where the crew would lay up the train. The other interval might have an M crew operating an RR N/B usually the Canal put in and go S/B on the QB and finish in M service. The following pick the crew assignments might be reversed. It all depended on what would produce a more effective work program. |
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