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Posted by randyo on Thu Jan 11 15:12:20 2018, in response to Why can't they turn the heaters on?, posted by Allan on Wed Jan 10 20:42:27 2018. For those of you who remember, the R-16s when they ran on the Jamaica Line also had a reputation for lousy heat which is one of the reasons why in very cold weather, they were often swapped with the steels on the 14 St Line since the poor heating wasn’t as critical on a line that was predominantly underground. Another reason for the swap had to do with the poor performance of the all electric doors on the R-16s during cold weather vs the air/electric doors on the steels. Now the R-12s through 15s on the Flushing line had the exactly same electric door engines as the R-16s but I never heard anything about those cars having similar problems. Getting back to the heat or lack thereof on the R-16s, when the Jamaica Line was through routed down the Brighton Line as the QJ, the R-16s were taken of the Jamaica Line and assigned to other Southern Div lines like the N and RR because of the heat problem. From experience, the TA knew that passengers along the Brighton corridor wielded a lot more political clout than passengers in other areas and would not tolerate the poor heat of the R-16s so it made sure that Brighton Line passengers had cars with the best heat available at the time. |
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