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Posted by irtredbirdr33 on Tue Oct 1 05:35:14 2024 Tuscarora Almanac for October 1 1893 – from The Book of First Runs Brooklyn’s Fifth Avenue El is extended from 36th Street to 65th Street. 1911 – from The Book of First Runs The Pennsylvania Railroad and the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad open a new station called Manhattan Transfer. It is located in the Jersey Meadows at a point where the Jersey City Line to Exchange Place meets the new line to Pennsylvania station, Manhattan. Trains operating via the Hudson River Tunnel will change power here between steam and electric engines. The H&M will extend its service from Grove Street in Jersey City to this station allowing across platform transfer between H&M and PRR trains. Summit Avenue (Journal Square) station will not open until April 4, 1912. This station was only used for the transfer of passenger from one railroad to the other. It was not accessible from the outside. 1934 – from The Book of Service Changes Due to declining ridership off peak 5th Avenue El trains are reduced to a single car. This car is coupled to Culver El trains at 36th Street. 1936 – from The Book of First Runs The Brooklyn & Queens Transit Corporation begins operation of the first PCC cars on the Smith Street - Coney Island Line. 1962 – from The Book of First Runs The first train of R-Types is placed into service on the No.4 Lexington Avenue-Jerome Avenue Line. 1983 – from The Book of First Runs On or about this date the New York City Transit Authority receives the first locomotives built under the R-77 contract. The order consists of twenty diesel-electric engines (R-77) and ten electric engines (R-77 E). One more diesel electric was built and sold to the Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Transit Authority. All were built by the General Electric Company. The R-77’s are numbered as L-883 through L-902, the R-77 E’s as OEL-01 through OEL-10. The Atlanta unit is 1001. 1990 – from The Book of First Runs Prior to the opening of the new Harrison Maintenance Facility PATH borrowed TA Engine No. 64 to haul the PA cars around the facility. No. 64 must have enjoyed her visit to Jersey because she was still there in December. No. 64 was built by General Electric Transportation Systems in 1975 as part of the R-47 contract. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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