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Posted by Ed Alfonsin on Sun Jun 29 15:25:43 2008, in response to Re: June 28, 1956, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Jun 28 16:38:12 2008. The first passenger-carrying train was a train of R-16s (sorry--it never would have dawned on me to write down the car numbers at the time), witha canvas "Rockaway / Here We Come" sign as seen in those publicity pics. (I think it said "Rockaway," but it could have been "Wave Crest.") Mayor Wagner was there, as was the head of the TA, along with the Transit Authority Band and yours truly--a man I knew in the BMT Trainmaster's Office on Jay Street got me an invitation. The invitation didn't survive moves over the years, though. (I had seen the band before, in the Church Avenue IND station the day the IND "recaptured" the Culver line.) Good weather that day, as I recall. Ed Alfonsin Potsdam, New York |
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