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Posted by David on Mon Jul 3 16:53:13 2006, in response to Re: Lines in 1980, posted by J trainloco on Mon Jul 3 12:58:07 2006. R-38s had motor-generators, not inverters/static converters. They did not suffer (to any great degree, anyway) from situations where all fluorescent lighting was out and the car only had emergency (incandescent) lighting. The R-38s were pretty dark, however, because (a) the fans put lots of schmutz into the side lighting strips (backlighting), (b) as soon as NYCT(A) started buying subway cars with backlighting, advertisers started printing ads that consisted of white characters on a black background, and (c) the fluorescent lighting in pre-R-42 cars needed polarity reversers, and the reverser timers sometimes didn't work, which manifested itself in fluorescent tubes that didn't light completely, being purplish on one end. Of course, it didn't help that cars were running around with tubes that had burned out and hadn't been replaced.David |
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