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Re: No 75 Foot Cars To Essex Street |
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Posted by David on Thu Oct 18 22:17:14 2007, in response to Re: No 75 Foot Cars To Essex Street, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Oct 18 19:51:32 2007. I rode the D when it did that. The cars in use were R-40M/R-42s. One day in 1984 ('85?) I was on 4764/5 (the pair that went to Pueblo, Colorado for testing and were out of service for many years -- the cars still had USDOT stickers inside and hadn't been painted tan/orange) on the Williamsburg Bridge. We must have been up there for half an hour; I think someone forgot we were there!I don't know how far back GOs of that type went ("Edwards" says they ran in the 1970s), but 75-foot cars were removed from D service shortly after a particularly violent derailment near Kings Highway on January 16, 1981 almost put a train of R-44s into several backyards. They didn't reappear there until R-68s started arriving in 1986. David |
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