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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Jun 6 14:49:51 2013, in response to Re: Last run of the R30, posted by Edwards! on Thu Jun 6 12:46:13 2013. When the N and R exchanged terminals in Queens in May 1987 that swapping stopped. Those yellow R trains on the Broadway el ran exclusively on the Nassau St part of the road. Since there could be no more interchanging of consists (R trains now used 600' trains exclusively) everything leaving 95th St had to come from ENY. This led to most of the AM rush seeing trains signed as R leaving Metropolitan Ave for Manhattan and M trains from Bay Parkway being put-ins from Coney Island. It was one of those weird service patterns you never saw on a map. In the AM, there were only 2 southbound runs that ran down the West End line, one to Bay Parkway (which always used a redbird) and one which ran thru to CI and went OOS (which always used an R27). This glut of Nassau St trains is what probably led the MTA to eliminate the diamond R entirely in November 1987, streamlining all the services. |
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