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Posted by David on Mon Jul 3 16:59:11 2006, in response to Re: Lines in 1980, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Mon Jul 3 11:53:34 2006. The R-46s (and R-44s, for that matter) were banned from the Brighton Line after a severe derailment involving a D train of R-44s early one January morning (the 16th?) in 1981 that nearly resulted in a subway car going into at least one backyard. This was the final straw, as the property owners along E. 15th and E. 16th Streets had been complaining for some time that vibrations from these cars were destroying the retaining walls separating the right-of-way from their properties. How much truth there was to that, I don't know -- 75-foot cars (R-68/68A) have been operating on the Brighton Line for 20 years now, and I haven't heard any vibration complaints in years. (Remember, while the R-46s had the "newfangled" Rockwell trucks, the R-44s had NYCT(A)'s "standard" trucks.)David |
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