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Re: Restoring the ''Rapid'' in ''Rapid Transit'' |
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Posted by randyo on Thu Apr 8 16:16:56 2021, in response to Re: Restoring the ''Rapid'' in ''Rapid Transit'', posted by New Flyer #857 on Thu Apr 8 15:12:10 2021. The 14 St Line was notorious for M/M who would play chicken with the timers. There was one timer in particular approaching Jefferson St that as a rider, I never saw clear as the M/M approached it. When I eventually became a M/M the M/M breaking me in instructed me as to the exact location to cut the power and told me to just coast. I never saw that timer clear either, but because the stop arm went down slightly before the signal cleared it was of no consequence. Mant M/M used to operate by watching for the position of the stop arm rather than the signal which is why they could cut the timers so close. All prewar BMT equipment had tripcocks that could be reset from the cab because they were electric rather than purely pneumatic. The old timers would brag that they could get tripped by a timer and have the tripcock reset the train fully charged and the brakes released before the train even came to a full stop. I got a bit riskier when the R-9s went over there since if you blew a timer you had to go to the roadbed and reset manually which happened to me once. |
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