Alex L

In article <pan.2008.04.26.18.49.02.347928@www2.mrbrklyn.com> , Ruben
<ruben@www2.mrbrklyn.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:59:14 -0400, Joseph D. Korman wrote:
>
> >
> >> How do the cars get transported to Brooklyn?
> >>
> >> Ruben
> >>
> >
> > From what I understand, they are brought back and forth by truck. I'm
> > trying to get more info on this. It's not the first time subway cars
> > have been transported that way.
> >
> > A few years ago, I spotted a new IRT car on a flatbed trailer crossing
> > the GW Bridge. Unfortunately I had no camera handy, not even a cell phone.
>
> What kind of truch can go over the Verrazono with a subway car on it's
> back.

One that carries an OVERSIZE LOAD placard on its back and has an escort
team travel with it.

> And that would be a lot of trucks.

And it takes one truck per subway car. SIRT tends to send them over
two at a time, so it takes two trucks. Kawasaki send them down from
Westchester four or five at a time, so it takes five trucks max.
>
> Wasn't there a rail ferry that connected to 36th street?

There was (still is) but the other end is in New Jersey. And the
Brooklyn end isn't doing so great, since the City has driven the
operator to the virtual edge of bankruptcy (because some nit from
Brooklyn thinks an under-harbor tunnel would be better).
>
> Ruben