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Re: 1957: the trains you could see on every line |
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Posted by murray1575 on Sun Jun 21 18:55:21 2020, in response to Re: 1957: the trains you could see on every line, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jun 21 18:13:31 2020. They had four motors per car instead of two per car as on all the prewar cars. There was a strike at Westinghouse and some of the electrical equipment needed to equip the substations was not available so some was borrowed from the Dyre Ave. line which was not yet running through service to the rest of the IRT. Once the strike ended full power was provided to both lines so R10 cars could run through to the Rockaways on the A train and eventually the Dyre Ave. line could run the newer R type cars in through IRT service as they were rapidly replacing the old prewar cars. |
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