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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Sat Jan 13 18:51:35 2018, in response to [PHOTOS] East New York Yard 1978-94, posted by Bill Newkirk on Fri Jan 12 08:37:17 2018. The R10s that were painted yellow were supposed to have been used on the two garbage trains that at that time came out of Canarisie (the Eastern and Southern pickups). Normally what had been used were cars grabbed off whatever was running on the LL at the time. Usually wound up being R16s, since they were singles (as a married pair often had problems coming up with enough air to put into the refuse flats). The R10s did not work out too well, though, for a variety of reasons, including a space issue in AY yard (also known as Rockaway Parkway Yard), bad air compressors with low capacity and East New York not really having any parts for the R10s and some inter barn warfare in trying to get parts from Pitkin (which had raided the R16's that had been stored there for years and had no knowledge of where the parts went. Quite a bit of parts "shopping" was done in the wee hours of the morning on weekends, with minimal tools and quite a few lookouts.One other thing. When the M line went from Stillwell/Brighton to Metropolitan Avenue, this became the means of moving R27/30 and R32 cars back and forth to East New York for inspections. After arrival at MA (Metropolitan Avenue) the cars would be taken by a switchman over to East New York and another train brought back. Saved the cost of an extra train running light over the road. The R27/30s on the Franklin Shuttle would get a similar treatment. An M train would leave Coney Island and operate normal to Prospect Park, except it would come in on the Shuttle track. Meanwhile, the shuttle crew had already had the cars they had been using on the Manhattan bound express track. Passengers and crew of the M from Coney would swap over to the express track and continue as an M to Metropolitan Avenue. Meanwhile, the shuttle crew would take the 8 car M and make it into 2 shuttle trains. Just another way of saving moves over the road. Usually this was done with an 8 car train, but there were a number of times we did it with 4 car trains early in the afternoon as well. There were all sorts of tricks to get trains transferred from one place to another as part of the regular service back in the early 80's. |
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