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| Re: Tuscarora Dispatch No. 33 IRT Car Requirements / August 1961 (1552292) | |||
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Re: Tuscarora Dispatch No. 33 IRT Car Requirements / August 1961 |
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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Jul 5 10:11:09 2020, in response to Re: Tuscarora Dispatch No. 33 IRT Car Requirements / August 1961, posted by murray1575 on Sat Jul 4 22:40:43 2020. The 6 and 7 were, to my memory, the only lines that didn't end up with dog's-breakfast consists of whatever cars the yard threw together to make a train. The period from the late '70s to the late '80s was indeed a wild time. I remember an IRT car (an older IRT SMEE model) bursting into flames at one of the Lower Manhattan stations due to advanced neglect in the "deferred maintenance" era. By the fall of 1983, the whole system had hundreds of "red tag" areas where a speed restriction of 10 MPH was in effect, and derailments were common occurrences.No matter how bad things appear today, they will never begin to approach conditions during the "bad old days"... |
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