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Re: [PHOTOS] Then Along Came The R-38's |
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Posted by Handbrake on Thu Oct 21 13:31:26 2021, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Then Along Came The R-38's, posted by trains61 on Tue Oct 19 08:47:30 2021. My first ride on R38 equipment was in the summer of 1966, to include the last ten cars of the order that were factory equipped with AC climate control equipment in 1967. Loud equipment that was amplified by the IND Type Two trackways, and flat wheels a plenty.I managed to ride the first F Train of R38 equipment to Stillwell Coney Island on the night of the big BMT-IND merge of Chrystie Street. R32's were running on the QB ready to change Rout & destination signs for 6th Avenue service. At the time I found myself at 34th & 6th Av after returning from a party in Astoria where a train of R9's were charging up ready to leave the terminal for Jamaica 179th Street. While waiting for an expected southbound D train to appear, a southbound F consisting of R38's signed for CONEY ISLAND rolled in, and so I got on. My intended stop was 23rd Street, but as any rail enthusiast might do, I rode it south to W4th Street where I got off the train. By now I knew that the Chrystie Street cut was now in service. So I waited around W4th to see what else would develop. Within the span of five minutes southbound D consisting of R4 subway cars arrived on B4 track. At this point the train on Track B4 confirmed that the Chrystie Cut was now in use. Unknown to many at the time, the B3/4 tracks at the Manhattan portal of the Manhattan Bridge had been connected during the Thanksgiving holiday where a couple of R9's were sent through the Cut to run up an down the North side of the Manhattan Bridge to polish the rails. From what I understand, this drove the dispatchers at DeKalb a little nuts to because the model board at DeKalb displayed trains on the A/B tracks going back and forth wrong railing. Of course no one at the TeeAye communicates with each other. When the IND R4 cars made it over the bridge into DeKalb Avenue, it was pure pandemonium on the platform. All that could be heard from the crowd was "It's A D, it's a D." At the same time as this was going on, NYCTA employees were installing the first generation (White with Black letters and route symbol) of uniform information signage located overhead at the edge of the platform. After viewing all the excitement at DeKalb I decided to return to home to Manhattan by getting on a Northbound D of R32's to my 6th Avenue stop. |
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