Re: Draft History of NYCTA Grumman 870s (Re: Whatever Happened to NY's Grumman Flxible Model (116039)

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Posted by Mark S. Feinman on Thu Jun 3 12:13:16 2004, in response to Re: Draft History of NYCTA Grumman 870s (Re: Whatever Happened to NY's Grumman Flxible Model,
posted by RailBus on Thu Jun 3 09:01:36 2004.

Thank you for the book tip. I may very well go read it. For the purposes of the article, though, and in the interests of my time, I limited what I could do to newspaper articles, most of them in my own collection.

The fire in the Flxible was probably the "last straw" in the decision to remove them from service permanently. I don't have any doubts that TA maintenance practices at the time contributed to the fire and the buses' eventual removal; mean distnace betwen failures for subway cars was hovering aroung 6,600 miles, so why would anyone expect the bus situation to be any different.

--Mark

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