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Re: Tuscarora Almanac for April 7 |
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Posted by randyo on Wed Apr 8 23:07:54 2020, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for April 7, posted by Elkeeper on Wed Apr 8 20:54:51 2020. While I don’t necessarily dispute your facts, nycsubway.org indicates the start date for the conversion of the C types as being 1922. The late trainmaster George Abere mentioned to me that he recalled seeing a train of C types operating on the Jamaica el when he was young which tends to corroborate what you are saying about their testing. Eventually, all the C types received subway type running lights similar to the ones on the D types and the running lights on 1500 and 1501 had their original running lights repositioned accordingly. As I mentioned before, documentation mentions the C types received controllers removed from the steels that were being unitized around that time but I seem to recall from my only time riding them that when I looked into the M/M’s cab I saw a regular BU/Q type controller. Considering that 1500 and 1501 were converted before the rest of the Cs and even before the unitization of the steels , it’s possible that those first 2 units retained the original el type controllers rather than getting the subway type and that was the one I saw. As I might have mentioned before, I was 10 years old at the time and not very railfan savvy or mechanically knowledgeable so I didn’t always pick up on every detail as I would have years later and it was over 60 years ago so my memory is about as fuzzy as my cat. |
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