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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sun Sep 19 10:45:14 2021 Tuscarora Almanac – September 19, 1966 – The Book of Last Runs Manhattan, New York New York City Transit Authority IRT Division Track 3 of the 42nd Street Shuttle is taken out of service for about three months. This will permit replacement of the wooden platform over Track 2 at Times Square with a concrete one. Source: New York Division Bulletin /October 1966 Tuscarora Almanac – September 19, 2002 – The Book of First Runs Scranton, Pennsylvania Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad The Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad re-opens the former Laurel Line Crown Avenue Tunnel. The tunnel will now be used by DLRR freight trains and trolleys of the Electric City Trolley Museum. The first run is made by former Red Arrow Center Door Car No. 76. Source: “The Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad” (Railpace Company / 2018) by Mr. Tom Nemeth Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun Sep 19 10:49:46 2021, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for September 19, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sun Sep 19 10:45:14 2021. Track 3 of the 42nd Street Shuttle is taken out of service for about three months. This will permit replacement of the wooden platform over Track 2 at Times Square with a concrete one.I wonder if they ran 5-car trains on track 1 and 4 to keep the same number of cars available. |
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Posted by BMT Standard on Sun Sep 19 11:33:22 2021, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for September 19, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun Sep 19 10:49:46 2021. Tracks 1 and 4 of the shuttle could only accommodate three car trains due to short platforms at Times Square. Track 3 ran five car trains when track 4 was out of service during the installation of equipment to run the automated train on track 4 in the early 1960s. |
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Posted by William A. Padron on Sun Sep 19 11:37:30 2021, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for September 19, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun Sep 19 10:49:46 2021. I wonder if they ran 5-car trains on track 1 and 4 to keep the same number of cars available.Hard to say, as even during this current (2021) reconstruction of the Shuttle had trains on tracks 1 and 4 each running with three cars. So, it is possible it was that same arrangement back then in 1966, because the platforms at TSQ on 1 and 4 could only handle three cars even then. From May 7, 1966, two vintage views of the R-12/14's on Track 4 at GCT, with Track 3 in the foreground and the former Track 2 filled in with concrete.   -William A. Padron ["Shuttle"] |
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Posted by Avid Reader on Sun Sep 19 19:32:13 2021, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for September 19, posted by William A. Padron on Sun Sep 19 11:37:30 2021. Gen-u-wine artificial rattan seats. Cool! |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sun Sep 19 19:54:27 2021, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for September 19, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sun Sep 19 10:45:14 2021. A year ago today, Denver's newest commuter line, the N line, opened. Rides were free all weekend and revenue service began on Monday the 21st. The line opened only as far as Eastlake-124th Ave. The remaining 5.5 miles to 162nd Ave. will be completed once fundign becomes available. I just hope it doesn't turn into Denver's version of the IRT Nostrand Ave. line. |
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Posted by Wallyhorse on Sun Sep 19 22:06:33 2021, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for September 19, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sun Sep 19 10:45:14 2021. So for a period they were only using Track 4 on the shuttle? |
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Posted by randyo on Mon Sep 20 01:02:21 2021, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for September 19, posted by Wallyhorse on Sun Sep 19 22:06:33 2021. 1 and 4. |
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Posted by William A. Padron on Mon Sep 20 05:30:56 2021, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for September 19, posted by Avid Reader on Sun Sep 19 19:32:13 2021. Velon seating, to be exact!-William A. Padron ["Track 4 - GCT"] |
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Posted by MainR3664 on Mon Sep 20 06:45:40 2021, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for September 19, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sun Sep 19 10:45:14 2021. Thank you, as always!! I didn't know that the Times Square Shuttle station had a wooden platform for almost 50 years! |
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Posted by MainR3664 on Mon Sep 20 06:48:09 2021, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for September 19, posted by William A. Padron on Sun Sep 19 11:37:30 2021. For what it's worth, I really liked the tiles they installed at Grand Central in the 1960s- with the occasional red one thrown in. Does anyone know if there was any pattern to the placement of the red tiles amongst the white? |
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Posted by Avid Reader on Mon Sep 20 08:26:14 2021, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for September 19, posted by William A. Padron on Mon Sep 20 05:30:56 2021. Thanks for the info on the seat cover. I recall it being used to recover seats on some R1/9s.Were the R/16s the only ones to have vinyl-covered foam rubber? |
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Posted by William A. Padron on Mon Sep 20 10:13:17 2021, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for September 19, posted by Avid Reader on Mon Sep 20 08:26:14 2021. The R-15's, R-16's, R-17's, R-21's and R-22's had them originally. There was a time that the seats changed on many pre-1959 rolling stock from rattan and velon to vinyl covered foam rubber, before the fiberglass seating was becoming standard replacements into 1969.-William A. Padron ["a.c.f."] |
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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Mon Sep 20 17:27:11 2021, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for September 19, posted by MainR3664 on Mon Sep 20 06:45:40 2021. I didn't know that the Times Square Shuttle station had a wooden platform for almost 50 years! It was initially considered a "temporary" operation. Temporary lasts a long time in New York. That wooden platform was a major factor in the 1964 fire. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by Avid Reader on Tue Sep 21 08:08:22 2021, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for September 19, posted by William A. Padron on Mon Sep 20 10:13:17 2021. What I could find
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Posted by Wallyhorse on Tue Sep 21 09:30:40 2021, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for September 19, posted by randyo on Mon Sep 20 01:02:21 2021. Realized that when I saw other posts. |
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Posted by randyo on Tue Sep 21 18:45:30 2021, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for September 19, posted by Avid Reader on Tue Sep 21 08:08:22 2021. That may have been what the museum could find but the original vinyl seats in the R-15s were a sort of brownish orange color. |
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