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Posted by mack c-49 on Mon Feb 10 08:58:28 2020, in response to Re: R-42 Retirement Run, posted by MainR3664 on Mon Feb 10 08:33:31 2020. I remember riding the E from WTC to 179th daily in the summer of 1968 when the consists were usually a hodgepodge of R38s and R40s. One quickly learned to identify the air-conditioned cars from the exterior roof vents and dive for those cars in the sweltering heat. It took many years for air-conditioning to become the norm system-wide with older rolling stock retrofitted as well as the R42s forward all being air-conditioned. Of course, now some stations are more unbearable than ever in the summer heat. I nearly expired in the Union Square station once last summer from the oppressive heat. The trains now generate so much heat and station ventilation is often terribly inadequate. |
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