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Posted by randyo on Tue Apr 7 23:56:19 2020, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for April 7, posted by qveensboro_plaza on Tue Apr 7 22:34:13 2020. My experience with the Fulton St el was similar. The first time I rode Myrtle with BUs in the early spring of 1956, my father had the foresight to inquire of one of the M/M if Fulton was still running and when he found out it was we changed for the 14 St Line at Wyckoff and rode to Atlantic where we changed for the Fulton. 2 odd things about that day were that we got a train of R-16s on 14 St instead of a Multi which would have been the normal equipment on that line. Tye second thing was that the first C type we rode was 1501 one of the first 2 C types built with the oddball center doors in each section instead of the usual doors that the rest of the Cs had. I didn’t actually take car numbers but since records indicate that the only other oddball 1500 was scrapped the year before it had to be 1501 I rode. Since preparation work was going on for the upcoming connection to the IND at 80 St, we had to change for a single tk shuttle at Grant tor the trip to Lefferts and back which was operating on K2 tk. Although nobody seems to have any good phots of the interior of the Cs, I seem to recall that the cab doors opened backwards like the Multis which would have enable them to operate in a transverse cab configuration. I also don’t recall being able to see the M/M’s controls but documentation indicates that the cars had controllers that were removed from the steels when they were unitized circa 1923 when the Cs were built. Also since this was a Sunday, we never got a chance to go into Rockaway Av since weekend service on Fulton operated into E/Pky. I’m not sure whether it was February or March when we rode, but it wasn’t too long after that, in April that the IND subway was connected to the structure on Liberty Av. |
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