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Posted by Dan on Wed Jul 26 13:27:48 2006, in response to Re: Pic: blast from the past, posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Jul 25 21:26:54 2006. There was one day in early 1981 that is considered as the day that the system hit rock bottom. It was an extremely cold Monday morning, around 15° I believe. The TA could not get many of it's trains up and running that morning due to the cold. I was taking the 'F' to work from 18th Avenue in those days. After freezing may ass off for about a half-hour on the platform, a grafitti-covered, beaten-up'B' train limps into the station. Lights, but zero heat. The summer before was the R44 crisis which took many of the wonderful R46s off of the 'F', replacing them with old hot R10s. The bad old days indeed.Once the 'F' got all it's R46s back serice was back to it's usual good level. I knew folks from Bensonhurst who would take the B8 bus to McDonald Avenue just to avoid the Sea Beach and West End lines. No metrocard back then so it was a second fare. |
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