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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Dec 20 20:54:53 2010 When will he run out? Hopefully, not soon.Finally, a pic of an R44 interior showing those ugly under-seat supports which disappeared during GOH. Note the advertisement for Eastern Airlines:  The original strip maps on the rollsigns:  The R46's looked different, and some black and white versions of those signs were installed on the R42's in the early 80's. Remember the "paper Q"? Here's a paper R. These were common in the 80's, with all those busted rollsigns:  Female conductors were common by the early 90's, but still a novelty in the mid 80's:  An R38, just back from GOH. This was the first car class to get the massive overhauls, and I remember my first encounter with one in the spring of 1987. I thought they were brand new cars. It took me a while to see that they were existing cars fixed up:  The diamond N only went to Whitehall St:  One of the indignities the Sea Beach line had to endure during the 1980's was the loss of it's clean fleet of cars when they swapped the N and R in Queens in May of 1987. Though many new R68's would appear on the line rather quickly, there were still many dirty cars (mostly R32's like this) which infested the line for most of the rest of the year:  Inside was just as bad:  Someone with GE dun goofed and forgot to replace this relic rollsign:  When not touring with Queen, front man Freddie Mercury like to pass the time by doing some freelance conducting:  The old R46 rollsigns, which lacked any strip maps:  The short lived R to Jamaica:  R68 on the R, WTF?  The R10's challenged the R16's for the title of shittiest looking cars in the mid 1980's:  Unlike the R16, many R10's would get a reprieve and a makeover:    Hopefully Dave keeps this up. I've been nostalgin' HARD the last month or so! |
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