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Posted by MainR3664 on Wed Sep 28 07:50:42 2016, in response to Re: W coming back November 7, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Tue Sep 27 23:59:11 2016. A few weeks ago, someone on here linked to a copy of the MTA's 5-year look back at their 1968 Plan for Action.In that document, the MTA is explicit that in the M1s, they were completely breaking with the past. All prior orders had to be compatible with everything back to 1905, and they claimed this limited the ability to modernize. While I'm not a mechanic or engineer of any kind, there is some logic to that. Sometimes a "clean break" is necessary. I know it's fun to dump on the MTA, and especially the agency's early management. But I think in this case, they were right. It was probably also necessary to make a clean break with the NTTs. But what I don't understand is why R143-R160-R179 are incompatible. The R160s seem to be a successful car class. They should have just ordered more of them. |
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