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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Fri Apr 9 21:21:26 2021, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Car Float Of Scrap Subway Cars, posted by Joe V on Fri Apr 9 06:56:30 2021. And they lacked interior door gaskets, too. Ditto for the R-10s and R-16s. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Fri Apr 9 21:22:10 2021, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Car Float Of Scrap Subway Cars, posted by Catfish 44 on Fri Apr 9 11:29:09 2021. Too bad they couldn't stay that clean.:( |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Fri Apr 9 21:27:58 2021, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Car Float Of Scrap Subway Cars, posted by MainR3664 on Fri Apr 9 16:38:40 2021. IRTwise I think you’re right. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Fri Apr 9 21:30:56 2021, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Car Float Of Scrap Subway Cars, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Fri Apr 9 21:22:10 2021. It striking! |
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Posted by Joe V on Sat Apr 10 06:38:57 2021, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Car Float Of Scrap Subway Cars, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Fri Apr 9 21:21:26 2021. On cars that had flush interior door windows, there was a difference between ACF and St Louis cars. ACF cars had more rubber gasket on the exterior. |
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Posted by George Foelschow on Sat Apr 10 15:40:18 2021, in response to [PHOTOS] Car Float Of Scrap Subway Cars, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Apr 8 13:35:51 2021. So, permanently out-of-service subway cars are no longer "reefed", meeting a waterly end in the Atlantic Ocean? |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Sat Apr 10 17:16:30 2021, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Car Float Of Scrap Subway Cars, posted by George Foelschow on Sat Apr 10 15:40:18 2021. So, permanently out-of-service subway cars are no longer "reefed", meeting a waterly end in the Atlantic Ocean?The reef program ended long ago. Cars are scrapped the old fashioned way. I believe the scrapper is in Ohio. Bill Newkirk |
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Posted by murray1575 on Sat Apr 10 17:58:52 2021, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Car Float Of Scrap Subway Cars, posted by Joe V on Fri Apr 9 08:27:01 2021. In those days you avoided any 5xxx (R12-14-15) car since they were one step away from the scrap yard. The interior lights often didn't work and doors were often left locked out as well. Deliveries of new air conditioned R62 and R62A cars finally sent them to the scrappers. |
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Posted by randyo on Sat Apr 10 19:19:35 2021, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Car Float Of Scrap Subway Cars, posted by Joe V on Sat Apr 10 06:38:57 2021. There were 10 R-22s that interior gaskets, 7515 - 7524 which also had the hard plastic seats, speckled green interiors and single drop sash storm door windows. |
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Posted by 3-9 on Sat Apr 10 22:16:57 2021, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Car Float Of Scrap Subway Cars, posted by Express Rider on Fri Apr 9 20:30:14 2021. I'm surprised they didn't remove the end signs as well, just for salvage reasons. |
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