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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Sat Sep 20 21:31:10 2025, in response to Re: 952 Standards, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Sep 20 14:13:52 2025. Which brings up a thought. Not that I know much about the IRT, but several R17's had very short lives.As for the B Division, the D Types did well, just one set (1 renumbering) lost to a collision. And that was like 30 years into their lives. As for SMEES, I think the R27/30's had it rough as 4 were lost in the Met fire and 1 on the Astoria line. The 32's had quite a few wrecks before they were GOH'ed. They lost 4 R38's at a young age. They lost slants 4420/21 at a young age, R42's were lost too, especially 4680/81 lost by the time I got hired in 1979. Several others lost early like 4714/15 and 4766/67. The R44's had many losses at a young age whereas just 2 R46's pre GOH were lost at 179 lower level when a motorman had a fatal heart attack before he took out the bumper block and crashed into a wall. The luckiest ones are the R68/68A's. None lost at all but 2755 almost was when it was sideswiped by a work train in CIYD before it was released for service. This is all from memory. Specifics at www.nycsubway.org |
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