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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Tue Feb 18 06:49:25 2020 Tuscarora Almanac - February 18, 1903 - The Book of First Runs Manhattan, New York Manhattan Railway Company Electric MU trains begin running on the 9th Avenue El between 155th Street and South Ferry. Source: New York Division Bulletin /May 1994, Mr. Bernard Linder Tuscarora Almanac – February 18, 1942 – The Book of Wrecks Plato Center, Illinois Illinois Central Railroad The brand new two car ACF Motorailer train set known as the “Land O’Corn” is badly damaged in a grade crossing accident with a tractor-trailer. The engineer is killed and nearly two dozen passengers are injured. The train set is returned to the American Car & Foundry plant in Berwick, Pennsylvania. It will be rebuilt and placed into service on the Susquehanna Railroad. Source: “Illinois Central Through Passenger Service in Color” (Morning Sun Books /2016) by Mr. Greg Stout Tuscarora Almanac - February 18, 1980 - The Book of First Runs San Francisco, California San Francisco Municipal Railway The following article was written by Mr. Peter Ehrlich (Milantram) On this date in 1980, the San Francisco Municipal Railway began Muni Metro subway service, with its N-Judah line operating in the top level of the two-level Market Street Subway (BART served the lower level tubes), instead of the Market Street surface tracks. The N was the first of the five existing streetcar lines to be converted to Boeing LRV operation, but on weekdays (and holidays that fall on weekdays) only. This move freed up enough PCCs to cover the four remaining lines with plenty of spare cars now available. Before this, many runs were held in because of lack of operable PCCs. The five stations that opened for Muni Metro service this day were Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell, Civic Center and Van Ness. Gradually, more lines started running into the subway (again, weekdays only), and three of the remaining four stations (Church, Castro and West Portal) opening in June 1980. The existing Forest Hill continued to stay open, served by weekday and weekend PCCs, and LRVs in low-floor mode pending rebuilding as a high-platform station. The last conversion took place 16 months later, in June 1981. Weekend service on all five lines (no M service on Sundays) would continue with PCCs until September 19, 1982. Full 7-day Muni Metro service wouldn't start until November 1982. Source: The People's Railway, by Perles and McKane: Inside Muni, by McKane and Perles; San Francisco's F-Line, by Peter Ehrlich; Muni's web site (www.sfmta.com); and other sources. MIlantram (Peter Ehrlich) Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Tue Feb 18 20:00:27 2020, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for February 18, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Tue Feb 18 06:49:25 2020. Those poor PCCs were falling apart by 1981. I rode a J line car out to thew end of the line on June 11, 1981 and it broke down on the way back on Market St. We were all discharged and I saw the car being towed back to the shop. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Tue Feb 18 20:00:30 2020, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for February 18, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Tue Feb 18 06:49:25 2020. Those poor PCCs were falling apart by 1981. I rode a J line car out to thew end of the line on June 11, 1981 and it broke down on the way back on Market St. We were all discharged and I saw the car being towed back to the shop. |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Tue Feb 18 21:07:20 2020, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for February 18, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Tue Feb 18 20:00:30 2020. Muni's record of treetcar maintenance is not stellar. Their bus repair was so behind they had to send work to outside firms to catch up. |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Feb 18 21:43:01 2020, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for February 18, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Tue Feb 18 20:00:30 2020. I saw pics of something like that in one of my Muni books. Another PCC was towing the bad order one, and the towing PCC developed problems. Eventually they got the towing PCC working and it was off to the barn. I think the caption mentioned 1981, would be cool if it was your event (my Muni books are currently packed away in storage, so I can't look it up). |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Wed Feb 19 04:53:51 2020, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for February 18, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Tue Feb 18 21:07:20 2020. My uncle, who at the time was only a few weeks from retirement from Vapor corporation, said that Vapor had tons of spare PCC parts they had made for Boston's fleet. You would think that most of those parts were interchangeable. |
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