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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 10 20:52:05 2009, in response to Re: R-160 Option III Order, posted by Train Dude on Sat Oct 10 20:43:14 2009. This may help ... back in 1969-1970, the Empty-yay droids hadn't taken over full management as yet and the 42's and 44's were considered political footballs because they were the first of the full-fleet "air conditioned cars." As such, political brinkmanship demanded that they appear on every line even in the token amount of just onje consist. With the 42's, that often meant just a couple of cars mixed in with 38's and 40's or even R10's if needed just to spread them around. Even the CC got a set of 42's and later 44's regardless of which yard they "belonged to."Remarkably, in the old days, sending a trainset home to another yard didn't require a boardroom meeting or a mission statement, it was just another WAA job similar to sending someone to pick up an ABD and tow it somewhere. No big deal back then. I can also confirm seeing at least one trainset and some frankentrains consisting of the new cars even on the AA and GG. Doing so was a political necessity. |
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