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Re: BMT Canarsie Line history question. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Fri May 29 13:10:16 2020, in response to Re: BMT Canarsie Line history question., posted by randyo on Tue May 26 18:16:23 2020. A retired inidividual formerly with the TA who has been one of the mentors of the transit enthusiast community had told me accounts of where records, papers, etc. of historic value were simply being tossed into dumpsters at Jay St. during the late 1960s - the reasoning being that this was about old, outdated, obsolete, infrastructure, rolling stock, etc. so it had no value.And the major players, and carers about the preservation of NY transit history, in spite of the museum, still seem to be the private individuals, among them former TA employees, who collect, save, and preserve, primary source records and material of the TA, and its pre-1940 predessors; who realize that the agency cannot be relied upon to save and preserve its own history. Very sad... Quite the opposite from TfL and its predecessor London Transport, where preserving its own history has long been an area of great pride for the agency. |
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