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Posted by randyo on Thu Feb 8 01:55:44 2007, in response to Re: Modern Subway Cars vs. Older Subway Cars (pros, cons, memories, thoughts)), posted by Karl B on Thu Feb 8 00:15:29 2007. Now that I have seen all the posts, I'll put in my 2 cents about my favorite equipment. I was a M/M on the Qs, steels, R-9s and every other piece of TA equipment up to and including the R-42. I was also Lo-V qualified to expedite drilling and transferring Lo-Vs between yards and was also qualified on R-44 as a Command Center T/D. As far as operating, the pre war equipment had it head and shoulders above the postwar stuff but despite my never having operated them, the BMT Multi rates at the top of my list. The D type rates high on the list also but they lacked the PCC like technology that the multis had. For a railfan, of course, the multis lacked a decent RFW although they did have something similar to what the R-62s have. Since the window was placed slightly lower on the cab door, however, an averaged sized adult would have to stoop down to look out of it. By the time I got to riding the Multis, their maximum acceleration rate had been cut down to something resembling post war R types but the old timers tell me that as delivered, they were faster accelerating and decelerating than the R-10s and 16s which were new in the 1960s. All I can say is that I would have loved to have been a M/M on the Multis during their prime when they ran on the 14 St/Canarsie and 14 St/Fulton lines. I haven't mentioned the Bluebird since it was taken out of service when I was rather young and since I rode the 14 St Line rather infrequently I don't recall ever having either ridden it or even seeing it. From the photos I have seen of it and knowing a bit about its PCC technology, I can only assume that it was a fine piece of equipment not unlike the Chicago articulateds which were closely patterned after them. The Bluebird is an example of stste of the art technology which provided an attractive comfortable and efficient ride in a railcar which had the warmth and character sorely lacking in the sterile cold and unfriendly equipment we now have running on the NYCTS today. |
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