 Newer equipment for Queens lines
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<lawrence.greenwald-9599C6.17351210042008@newsclstr02.news. >,
Lawrence Greenwald <lawrence.greenwald@> wrote:
> When will the heavily used Queens lines (A, C, E, F) see new equipment?
> They're still using the oldest equipment in the system (R32, R38, R44,
> R46). It always seems that Queens riders get the newest train types last.
>
> --LG
I should qualify a bit. My memory of the Queens Blvd. line (my home
station was Van Wyck Blvd, before it added the Briarwood name) was that
we went from R-1 thru R-7 series (I don't think the R-9 series were ever
assigned to Queens Blvd service) right to the R-38 series in the late
60s - we didn't get the intervening 16, 27, 30/30a or 32 series - then
the 40 (slant), 40m, 44 and 46 series. We did get a few 42s (the last of
the lot, numbers 4924 thru 4949, were the only ones I saw).
There hasn't been any intervening series and the newest ones (68, 143,
160) aren't anywhere around. Yes I know of the fiasco with the R-46
trucks and the time the 16s were dragged out of storage to fill the gap
when the 46s and possibly the 44s were removed.
Forgive - I moved away in 1982, so anything else is just based on the
postings to this group!
--LG |