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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Fri Aug 23 10:50:01 2019 Tuscarora Almanac - August 23, 1920 - The Book of First Runs Brooklyn, New York Interborough Rapid Transit Company The IRT Eastern Parkway Line is extended from Atlantic Avenue to Utica Avenue. At first all trains use the express tracks between Atlantic Avenue and Franklin Avenue as the local stations are not completed. New stations are opened at Nostrand Avenue, Kingston Avenue and Utica Avenue. The local stations at Bergen Street, Grand Army Plaza and Brooklyn Museum will open on October 10, 1920. The IRT Nostrand Avenue Line begins service between Franklin Avenue Station on the Eastern Parkway Line and Flatbush Avenue Terminal. New stations are opened at President Street, Sterling Street, Winthrop Street, Church Avenue, Beverly Road, Newkirk Avenue and Flatbush Avenue. Source: New York Division Bulletin, article by Mr. Bernard Linder Tuscarora Almanac – August 23, 1954 – The Book of Wrecks Manhattan, New York New York City Transit Authority IND Division R-6 1079 is wrecked in a collision at 205th Street. She will be scrapped in July 1958. Source: New York Division Bulletin / March 1961. Tuscarora Almanac – August 23, 1956 – The Book of Last Runs Brooklyn, New York New York City Transit Authority BMT Division This will be the last day of operation for the No.16 14th Street-Canarsie Express. Source: New York Division Bulletin /August 1966, article by Mr. Bernard Linder Tuscarora Almanac – August 23, 1958 – The Book of Last Runs Upper Darby, Pennsylvania Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company Service is discontinued on the remaining section of the West Chester Line between Westgate Hills and Llanerch Junction. Source: “Red Arrow Lines in Color” (Morning Sun Books / 2014) by Mr. Douglas E. Peters Tuscarora Almanac - August 23, 1966 - The Book of First Runs Long Island City, New York New York City Transit Authority IND Division This is the first day of operation of the R-38’s in passenger service. A brief ceremony was held at the IND Queens Plaza Station. The first train was an “F” Queens-6th Avenue Express and the consist was (S) 3963-3962, 3967-3966, 3955-3954, 3960-3961 and 3956-3957. The next train was an “E 8th Avenue Express and the consist was (S) 3950-3951, 3953-3952, 3965-3964, 3958-3959 and 3968-3969. Source: New York Division Bulletin /October 1966 Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by W.B. on Fri Aug 23 11:22:52 2019, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for August 23, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Fri Aug 23 10:50:01 2019. It was decided to assign the R-38's, upon arrival, to Jamaica Yard, as there was an acute shortage of cars there and the 'Arnines' there were generally in the worst state of disrepair. (It had been originally intended for these, the second production-model stainless-steel cars after Budd's R-32's, to be assigned to Concourse Yard for use on the D which then went to Brooklyn via Culver; but these cars would end up going to Culver anyway after the 1967 opening of the first leg of the Chrystie Street connection and the F was reassigned to the Culver line.)I vividly remember Stan Fischler's Uptown, Downtown book, in first editions, having this caption next to the front of an R-38: "In the late fifties, the Transit Authority opted for stainless steel cars, model R-38, manufactured by the Budd Company." The only truth about that caption was that it was R-38 and stainless steel. Later copies credited the manufacturer of the R-38's in that caption to Saint Louis Car Company; the timeline was never corrected. (As we see, built in 1966-67, presumably ordered and the contract signed in 1965 after Budd completed their R-32 / R-32A order.) |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Fri Aug 23 13:01:24 2019, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for August 23, posted by W.B. on Fri Aug 23 11:22:52 2019. I remember taking the R-9's to/from St John's Univ, using the 169St/Hillside Ave. They were the cleanest and best looking ones on any route, as I recall. I also remember the motormen breaking in on the new R-38's, between Union Tpke and 179th St, in the off-hours. |
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Posted by murray1575 on Fri Aug 23 17:14:08 2019, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for August 23, posted by W.B. on Fri Aug 23 11:22:52 2019. As I remember it Jamaica Yard Arnines (E/F/GG) ran well enough but the ones on the D/CC which were from Concourse Yard were clunkers. In any case what was really new about the R-38s was the 10 car air conditioned train cars 4140-4149. Air conditioning had been unsuccessfully tried years before on one R-15 and several R-17 cars. I always thought that the R-32 was a better looking and riding car at least before GOH. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Fri Aug 23 20:36:29 2019, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for August 23, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Fri Aug 23 10:50:01 2019. The Jamaica Yard Crisis reared its ugly head 53 years ago. R-38 deliveries were slowed by a strike at SLCC and 20 of them were on the property by this date. They were pressed into service, but it still wasn't enough to cover schedules. 32 R-16s were borrowed from ENY and they went into service on the GG, with new signs spliced into their curtains. The ripple effect continued; a group of condemned BMT standards were pulled off the scrapline and sent back to revenue service, with the S for Scrap painted over, on the Broadway-Brooklyn local. |
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Posted by randyo on Sat Aug 24 02:09:51 2019, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for August 23, posted by murray1575 on Fri Aug 23 17:14:08 2019. The R-32 was definitely a better operating car from the M/M’s standpoint. I braked faster and smoother than the R-38s and newer cars despite the fact that the R-38s through 42s had an “improved” version of the SMEE catalogued by WABCO as RT-2. I don’t know if the change in braking systems would have impacted on the R-38s if they had been built by Budd instead of St Louis but the cars definitely would have lasted longer and would probably still be with us. |
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Posted by W.B. on Sat Aug 24 10:19:14 2019, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for August 23, posted by randyo on Sat Aug 24 02:09:51 2019. R-38's through 42's had an ME-43 package, whereas up to R-32 it was ME-42. Ed Davis Sr.'s "They Moved the Millions" book branded the R-38's as among the loudest running trains on the system, alongside the R-10's.As for St. Louis cars still plying the rails on our system, the very few remaining R-42's . . . |
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Posted by W.B. on Sat Aug 24 10:20:11 2019, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for August 23, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Fri Aug 23 20:36:29 2019. Wonder if was because of that strike that St. Louis Car built only 200 R-38's, or if those two facts were unrelated? |
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Posted by randyo on Sun Aug 25 19:57:37 2019, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for August 23, posted by W.B. on Sat Aug 24 10:19:14 2019. The ME-43 brake valve was part of the RT-2 package. |
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Posted by randyo on Sun Aug 25 20:16:57 2019, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for August 23, posted by W.B. on Sat Aug 24 10:20:11 2019. I think that was all the contract called for at the time. Actually, there was an option for the R-38s to be LAHT instead of stainless steel but I don’t know why and what back door discussions were behind the decision to go with the stainless. I recall seeing somewhere an artist's rendering of a LAHT R-38 which looked sort of like a 60 ft R-36 but with the sculptured end bonnet like the ones the 38s actually came with. The only difference between the proposed R-38 paint scheme and that of the R-36s was a slightly different shade of blue. |
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