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Posted by William A. Padron on Sun Sep 25 00:56:13 2022, in response to Re: PHOTO Re: VIDEO: Taking A Ride Inside R-10 #3189., posted by Catfish 44 on Sat Sep 24 22:14:34 2022. Only #3184 was the one that was GOH'd in the green scheme in 1985, and a NYAB rotary screw compressor installed. The car was removed from passenger service in August 1989.#3189 was removed from passenger service in 1984, and that became the RCI Office and School Car in Pitkin Yard. It never was GOH'd, so it was able to retain its original WABCO A-1 3YC air compressor. While #3184 is owned by RPC on loaned to the TM, #3189 was transferred to become a TM-owned museum car in 2007. Ten years later, both cars finally went to 207th Street Shop to be worked on and be revived in an operable state. #3184 had to have a replacement air compressor, salvaged from a newer and different model of SMEE car. It made its debut on a "Nostalgia Special" run on the entire "Q" route to/from 96th-2nd on Sunday, July 30, 2017. #3189's restoration took longer, but that went into high gear during 2022 as the shop forces and volunteers put the car back together. The original air compressor was revived, and went under its own power. After a shakedown test run on the IND this month in September 2022, #3189 joined sister @3184 and R-16 #6387, plus a set of R-32's went down to Coney Island Yard on Friday, September 16, 2022. The R-1/9's and the BMT AB's also made their way to that storage facility. At long last, this year's "Trains of Many Metals" (#3189-3184-6387) went into service in this year's "Parade of Trains" during the weekend of September 17-18, 2022. #3189 ran and sounded fine in all of its trips. -William A. Padron ["QB / 57th Street"] |
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