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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Sep 10 19:01:36 2010, in response to Re: 9/10/77, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Fri Sep 10 18:41:54 2010. They did some modification to the R12's specifically assigned to the Third Ave. el to make them lighter. This is what I was told at the time but I don't know exactly how this was accomplished. I do know their top speed was reduced, but maybe all they "took out" was field shunting, which was taken out of all equipment many years later as a reaction to the WillyB wreck.Don't ask me what field shunting does other than affecting speed. Maybe if TD reads this he can get technical. I do think one of the many reason why these els came down was becasue everybody agreed they were blights to the surrounding neighborhoods. Buses were cheap to run becasue diesel fuel was cheap and there was no such thing as air pollution (concerns). When we got to the Franklin shuttle rehab not too many years ago, these concerns came full circle. |
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