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Posted by randyo on Mon Apr 9 23:55:26 2018, in response to Re: Subway Oddballs (Not the two legged kind), posted by Westcode44 on Mon Apr 9 22:11:17 2018. At the time the R-38s were delivered, there was only one type of antenna in use in the subway and that was what was used. The IRT cars were equipped with Motorola radio brackets and antennas as were the R-38s since Motorola got the contract for outfitting the entire IRT with radio equipment. Subsequently, GE got the contract for the BMT and IND so the R-38s (and 40s and 42s as well) had to have GE radio brackets wired to the existing Motorola brackets. Older IND cars only had to have GE radio brackets installed since they had no previous radio equipment. The Radio antennas installed on the BMT/IND equipment were smaller and more compact than the IRT ones so except for the R-38s which already had the Motorola brackets installed, all the BMT/IND antennas were the small type which caused no problem with the C/Rs mounting the steps on the R-10s.The R-1/9s had their antennas installed next to the bulkhead doors since they had windows where the antennas would go on the SMEES. The R-32s also had their antennas located similarly to the R-9s since the corrugations on the R-32 fronts offered no place to mount the antennas. The smaller GE antennas were subsequently installed on the R-12s through 15s (although the 15s really didn’t need them) but as I mentioned in another post, except for the 3 Av El, the IRT supt decided to keep the R-12s 14s and even the 15s away from C/R positions. |
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