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Posted by Express Rider on Mon Oct 16 04:36:26 2017, in response to Re: Interesting Read: Original Destination and Route Designation for BMT Standards, posted by randyo on Sun Oct 15 17:24:03 2017. Thanks for the details and facts.Interesting about the patents and royalties issues. Were the R-9's with reconditioned brakes the ones in photos I've seen - they had different colored number plates (white or off-white), numbers had one or two leading zeros, and were numbered in sets of five? Did not know about these cars first operating in Queens. Maybe those LI Press articles about performance failures in the IND fleet were referring to the earlier R numbered cars? I rode the R-9s on the Eastern Division sporadically in 68 or 69 while railfanning. In later years, could they have been not well maintained due to the deferred maintenance which is always mentioned as occurring during the 1970s? |
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