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Posted by MainR3664 on Fri Jan 4 07:08:50 2019, in response to Re: Fate Of The R32s?, posted by randyo on Fri Jan 4 03:37:58 2019. I agree. While I'm not a mechanic and don't work for the MTA at all, the R32s sure look a lot better than the R42s..which may reflect that the TA plans to keep them longer and is taking better care of them.But think of it like this- there are over 200 R32s left, and they provide quite a bit of flexibility, both on 8thAve/Fulton and "out East", being able to run easily in both places, and having a decent number of them makes it easy to split them as well. The remaining R42, OTOH, being few in number, have fewer mechanics familiar with them, and therefore, for maintenance purposes need to be kept together. And- when they did try to run R42s on 8th Ave in 2010, it didn't go so well- something about the conductor's cab being misaligned with the boards? (somehow, that wasn't a problem from 1969-88 or so..) |
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