|
|
| Re: [PHOTOS] Some More Odds & Ends (1475437) | |||
 |
|||
| Home > SubChat | |||
|
[ Read Responses | Post a New Response | Return to the Index ] |
|
||
|
Re: [PHOTOS] Some More Odds & Ends |
|
|
Posted by randyo on Sun May 13 01:10:39 2018, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Some More Odds & Ends, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat May 12 21:49:34 2018. I imagine that after the R-17s left Pelham in 1959 with the arrival of the R-26s, that there few if any solid trains of R-17s outside the Pelham Line itself. There were a few R-17s sent to the Flushing Line just prior to the 1964 World’s Fair because it was originally anticipated that the R-36s for the line were to be in the red scheme of the Mainline R-29s and 33s. Since the R-17s were sort of red they were sent to the Flushing line to fulfill the promise of red trains. On the mainline, the R-17s were mixed in trains of anything that ran since the IRT was the first division to operate smorgastrains long before the post Chrystie mixing on the BMT/IND |
|
|
|