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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Aug 1 19:40:43 2021 Saw the current thread on subchat about R10s and comments that they were never used on the N line. I know for a fact they were used there in a pinch when the N went to Continental Avenue in 1980. I was working a Nancy job (which is what we used to call the N) as a conductor and Continental gave us an R10 to take to Coney Island, as that is what came in on the stand. Beat up, multiple dead motors, wrong signs, the whole deal of a completely raggidy train. We left as an N and did the entire route to Stillwell, getting there almost 20 minutes late, looking forward got getting rid of this beast. Unfortunately, the lateness resulted in a furious dispatcher at Stillwell N (John Conaboy, good guy until you screwed up this railroad) informing us that since we were stupid enough to bring that thing to his terminal, that we would bring it back to Continental, in service... So yes, they did run on the Sea Beach. In addition to the above, for a while when R10s were on the B West End service, they would reroute over the Sea Beach as needed. Fantasy R-10 not to be taken seriously. (Jan 15, 1990) 
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