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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Tue Jul 4 10:41:20 2006, in response to Re: Lines in 1980, posted by Eric B on Mon Jul 3 22:29:12 2006. The AA/B were technically one line at least when I worked it using CI assigned cars. They had the split service, with some trains to 57/6 and some to 168 in the rush. When the 8 car B trains arrived @168 at the tail end of the AM rush, they were cut 4x4 to form AA trains at a 10 minute midday headway. Since the B's arived in excess of a 10 minute headway (due to the split service), there were not enough cars to run 8 car AA trains. Only 1 8 car train was laid up north of 168, sometimes 2 when there was no car shortage on a day (which was rare). I'll never forget a job that was up there at the time: a real seniority job: AA302. Don't forget, in those days lots of jobs had little cab time compared to today. They did 2 round trips on the AA, had lunch and were scheduled to do something like a 5:02 put in to Bay Pkwy, lay the train up up and with the deadhead time to 168 it was an 8 hour job. That interval seldom, and I mean SELDOM ran due to car shortages. The few times it did run, were those guys PISSED! |
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