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Posted by randyo on Tue Dec 27 16:08:21 2011, in response to Re: Myrtle Avenue El, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Mar 6 03:56:11 2010. Actually, the R-16s spent their early years on the BMT (pre J) Jamaica Line prior to being assigned to the RR and eventually the EE and GG. I believe they were actually the heaviest of the SMEEs. I believe most of the ones that burst into flame were the GEs which had a unique resistor cooling system that operated by a blower that ran in conjunction with the motor generator. I actually saw one of them burst into flames on a Bway Bkln lcl that was coming up from E/Pky to Atlantic Av. As the train was crossing over into Atlantic the motor generator exploded and a cloud of red smoke billowed out from it. Fortunately the train made it into the Atlantic Av middle without blocking either the Bway Bkln or 14 St lines. I did have the misfortune to operate the R-16s on the RR in 1969 and even the WH ones operated poorly. Since the IRT GE R-17s through 22s used basically the same resistor cooling system as the R-16s, I wonder if the IRT had as much trouble with their similarly equipped cars as the BMT/IND had with the R-16s. |
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