Re: Questions about the history of M service (Calling SLRT, Elkeeper, Eric B) (1548726) | |||
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Re: Questions about the history of M service (Calling SLRT, Elkeeper, Eric B) |
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Posted by randyo on Tue May 26 15:00:25 2020, in response to Re: Questions about the history of M service (Calling SLRT, Elkeeper, Eric B), posted by Express Rider on Tue May 26 05:02:39 2020. The same was also true of the post war IRT. As a private company, the IRT never numbered their routes and it wasn’t until the arrival of the R-12s that someone in the B of t decided to number them. Now I realize that the R-12s' design was based on the R-10s which has provisions for a route descriptor and a destination, so someone probably decided that something needed to fo in that particular window and numbers were chosen. However, there were other options that could have been used. One would have been to design the car so that the destination sign would have been centered above the end door and no route sign included like the 1939 W/F cars. The other would have been to just display the name of the line in the route box like “Bway-7 Ave,” "7 Ave-Bronx,” Lex-Jerome,” etc. |