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| Re: Tuscarora Dispatch No. 33 IRT Car Requirements / August 1961 (1552404) | |||
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Re: Tuscarora Dispatch No. 33 IRT Car Requirements / August 1961 |
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Posted by randyo on Mon Jul 6 16:29:33 2020, in response to Re: Tuscarora Dispatch No. 33 IRT Car Requirements / August 1961, posted by murray1575 on Mon Jul 6 05:33:40 2020. The mixed consists on the IRT were the result of the policy of the IRT’s Cars & Shops dept that decided to assign cars to various maintenance facilities based on electrical manufacturer rather than car type On the bMT and IND cars were assigned by car types so that each line had its distinctive car type like R-16s for the Jamaica, R-27/30s for the Brighton and 4 Av Lcls and R-32s for the Brighton and Sea Beach Exp and West End Exp and Lcl. The IND was a bit easier since pre Chrystie all the R-10s were assigned to the A Line. The IRT, on the other hand in order to keep all WH equipped cars on certain lines and all GE equipped cars on other lines ended up with a situation in which various car types were used in single trains, a situation that would not appear on the other divisions till the car shortages of the late 1960s/early 1970s. |
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