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Re: Tuscarora Dispatch No. 31 - R-40 / R-42 Roll SIgns |
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Posted by randyo on Fri Apr 24 17:19:05 2020, in response to Re: Tuscarora Dispatch No. 31 - R-40 / R-42 Roll SIgns, posted by BMT Standard on Fri Apr 24 16:40:50 2020. The TA always did things like that. The R-16s with the exception of about a half dozen cars had only roll signs for the BMT East and not the Southern. I do seem to recall that the R-11s were unique in that they had roll signs for both IND and BMT routes something that was not repeated until the arrival of the R-27s. Even the R-27s through 38s were a bit lacking in planning since they lacked a few readings that proved to be necessary a few years later with Chrystie. The R-1s through had route signs for all possible combinations of local and express service with both a single and double letter for every line with the exception of the GG and HH. The possible reason for not having a single G or H was that there was really no possibility of running any sort of an express service on either of those line which was possible on the others. The so called planners who designed the roll signs for the R-27s and up dropped the ball in a number of ways. The included a single letter C/8 Ave Exp for an operation that hadn’t run for years and was probably never intended to run again but left off a single letter B for a 6 Av exp service that eventually did run. When it came to BMT readings, the so called planners included Southern Div readings which included the name “Bway” along with the branch name, something which the BMT never did. The idiocy got exacerbated further when the cesspool of incompetence opted to completely eliminate the branch line names from the route signs on the R-32s and up instead to only display the Manhattan centric Bway on the route signs. Their excuse was that the IRT and IND didn’t have branch line names, why should the BMT be any different. I never occurred to them that unlike the other divisions, the BMT was unique in that the different branch lines all went to a common terminal, Coney Island. In addition the BMT ran specialized rush hour services known as Bankers’ Specials which ran on both the 4 Av and Brighton Lines into Nassau St and not Bway. No provision was made for either of these services. Moreover, unlike the IND’s lettering system which linked letters in combinations between the branch lines and the trunk lines, BMT route numbers prior to the introduction of letters only identified the branch line regardless of which trunk line in Manhattan it used. As a result, prior to Chrystie, both 4 Av and Brighton Bankers’ Specials were missigned with the letter M which was intended for and eventually used on the Myrtle/ Nassau service. |
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