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Posted by W.B. on Fri Aug 23 11:22:52 2019, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for August 23, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Fri Aug 23 10:50:01 2019. It was decided to assign the R-38's, upon arrival, to Jamaica Yard, as there was an acute shortage of cars there and the 'Arnines' there were generally in the worst state of disrepair. (It had been originally intended for these, the second production-model stainless-steel cars after Budd's R-32's, to be assigned to Concourse Yard for use on the D which then went to Brooklyn via Culver; but these cars would end up going to Culver anyway after the 1967 opening of the first leg of the Chrystie Street connection and the F was reassigned to the Culver line.)I vividly remember Stan Fischler's Uptown, Downtown book, in first editions, having this caption next to the front of an R-38: "In the late fifties, the Transit Authority opted for stainless steel cars, model R-38, manufactured by the Budd Company." The only truth about that caption was that it was R-38 and stainless steel. Later copies credited the manufacturer of the R-38's in that caption to Saint Louis Car Company; the timeline was never corrected. (As we see, built in 1966-67, presumably ordered and the contract signed in 1965 after Budd completed their R-32 / R-32A order.) |
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