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Posted by MainR3664 on Sun Mar 11 16:07:02 2018, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] The R-44, posted by Bill Newkirk on Fri Mar 9 16:15:13 2018. I remember the debut of the JFK- if not the very day, very shortly thereafter. My Mom took me to the Transit Exhibit/Museum in the Fall of 1978- I'd just entered 5th Grade. On the way home, at the Jay St. Station while waiting for the F, we saw the JFK- I'd not heard about it- but I asked my mom, who apparently had.This may have been Sunday, the 24th of September, it was definitely a Sunday, and the weather was still great. I got a new system map that day as well, which did not show the route, and we had KFC for dinner. A year later the new maps came out, and the route was shown. Then, we moved to Staten Island, and I didn't get to use the subway very much. The next I remember hearing of the JFK was an article in 1987 in the NY Post or Daily News comparing the "super-clean" JFK Express to the very run-down equipment used on the Grand Street Shuttle. That summer, I went to Manhattan myself, and checked it out. Sure enough, the Orange S was running some awful R27/30, and a super-clean R44/46 was on the JFK- the cars even had special stickers near the car # to remind crews to keep them clean restrict them to the JFK- I seem to remember a series of white airplane pictograms (4 or 5 of them in a horizontal row) below the car #, which was 12XX (so I guess an R46, though I did not know that). The newspaper article had not mentioned the stickers- but it was quite obvious what purpose they served. |
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