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Re: PHOTOS: Parade of Trains Saturday |
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Posted by randyo on Wed Jun 29 16:54:29 2016, in response to Re: PHOTOS: Parade of Trains Saturday, posted by W.B. on Wed Jun 29 06:53:45 2016. There were several factors involved in the IRT’s smorgastrains of the 1960s and later. While the BMT and IND car equipment departments chose to group cars by car type, the IRT car equip dept decided to assign cars to maintenance barns by electrical manufacture. Initially, the IRT did attempt to keep the R-12s and 14s in separate trains from the other cars since they had caps and triggers as opposed to the rest of the IRT fleet which had in cab door operation. Occasionally, there would be a mixed train but it proved to be problematic if the cars at the C/R position were inadvertently assembled with incompatible door controls. When radios were first installed, the antennas on the cars were rather large and interfered with C/Rs operating on the steps and in many cases causing injuries, so the IRT supt banned R-12s and 14s from C/R positions. For some strange reasons, the ban also was extended to the R-15s even though they had in cab door controls. It seems that all the “Queens Cars” were forever excluded from C/R positions. When the BMT and IND cars were fitted with antennas, they were a different type and music smaller and were safer to use on cars with caps and triggers like the R-10s. The R-12s through 15s were retrofitted with the smaller antennas but even after that, the IRT supt chose to keep the ban in effect on all lines except for the 3 Av el which did have solid trains of R-12s. |
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