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Posted by randyo on Sun Feb 19 17:25:06 2017, in response to Re: 8 cars and the C, posted by Joe V on Sun Feb 19 11:53:09 2017. Actually post 1940 when 6 Av opened, BB trains were 6 cars with 4 car trains on the shoulders. Going back to the late 1950s when I first started paying attention to cars services, AAs ran 3 cars during the midnight and added to 6 car BBs for the shoulder and 8 cars for the rush. Midday AAs were 4 cars and in the PM rush shoulder BBs were 4 cars and rush hour BBs were 6. Sometime circa 1960, the PM BBs were lengthened to 6 cars for the shoulder and 8 cars for the rush. After the PM rush, the consist were cut to 3 car AAs for the late PM and midnight. Sat AAs were 4 cars and Sun AAs were 3 cars and in any case PM and midnight were 3 cars all 7 days. As I remember it, midday As and Ds were 10 cars but cut to 8 after the PM rush. Oddly, Weekend As and Ds were also 8 cars. I seem to recall midday Es and Fs cutting to 8 cars during the week,and I assume they were also 8 cars on weekends although I really never rode the Queens IND that much during the 1960s. Midday and Sat IND headways were 8 min, Sun IND headways were 10 min and midday and weekend BMT headways were 12 min. After Chrystie, the midday headways on both the BMT and the IND were changed to 10 min to match although as I recall, the 14 St Line and the Myrtle el remained at 12 min since they didn’t merge onto any IND lines. Weekend headways on both the IND and BMT were set at the pre Chrystie IND headways for several years. |
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