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Posted by William A. Padron on Tue Jul 1 08:47:41 2008, in response to Re: June 28, 1956, posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 30 20:57:30 2008. >>EVERY R-type (except the R-11/34s) in the inventory has visited Far Rock at one time or another...<<Actually, one four-car R-11 train set visited the Rockaway Line, including at Far Rockaway, on a 1967 fantrip. To whit... R-11's [Fan Trip Train] and R-10's [IND "A" Train], Far Rockaway - 11/18/1967. >>Too bad we can't have a R-10 Nostalgia trip with the R-10s painted in the "Ocean" paint scheme (white over aqua with aqua roofs), as we blast the eardrums of a modern generation...*wishful thinking*...I never did understand why the R-10s were so boomimgly loud when the R-12/14 cars were not...<< The reason for that, and it had been documented in some subway and railfan literature that I read over the years, is the R-10's were that *loud* was probably because of the heavier, noiser replacement trucks they had received after their original, quieter ones with the rubber inserts were showing defective hairline cracks. The undercarriages on the fleet had all been replaced within the first year of operation. And the lament continues to this day still that there is no R-10 museum train, which I always be reminded constantly every time I see or hear the news that the R-1/9's or IRT SMEE's are basically the only reliable museum trains that could be operated with no problems. By the way, there are only just two R-10 cars in existence today, #3184 and #3189, and I do not forsee each them running yet in the near future. -William A. Padron ["Wash.Hts.-8th Av.Exp."] |
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