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Re: R44's on the Eastern Division |
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Posted by randyo on Thu Oct 18 17:10:10 2007, in response to Re: R44's on the Eastern Division, posted by Michael549 on Thu Oct 18 00:44:51 2007. Actually, the BMT subway and even some dual contract portions of the IRT were built to clearances for then standard size RAILROAD coaches which in reality meant the LIRR MP-54s wahich were 60 ft lomg X 10 ft wide. When the BRT started designing its steel cars, it first came up with a car that was the same size as its wooden el cars and one, 998 was built. The BRT being a rather progressive outfit realized that since the new tunnels were being built for railroad size coaches kept expanding the size of its new car design until the maximum possible length operable of 67 ft was reached. Since the tunnels were only designed for 60 ft cars, however, the end excess of the cars necessitated by modified truck placement to clear the tunnels required that the end doors of the cars remain locked at all times between the cars as well at he ends of the train. This was a similar problem that was encountered by the TA when the R-44s were being designed. |
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