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Posted by W.B. on Tue Jun 27 22:42:50 2000, in response to Re: Original Station Platform Lengths of the IND - Reprise / Complete,
posted by avid reader on Tue Jun 27 09:18:58 2000.
Interestingly, R-10 through R-42 units were combined a la IRT R12-36 combos in 1969. But whereas the IRT R units looked virtually alike, no two BMT/IND R orders from 1948-69 looked the same. So it was strange, for instance, to see a train of R-42’s with a lone married-pair R-27 or 30, or in one photo on this site, a train which had an R-40 slant followed by a married-pair R-38 followed by R-40M. Or R-32, R-40 slant and R-42. Or, in an A train consist in 1969, an R-42 with an R-10. Or R-27/30 and R-38. Or R-27/30 and R-32. On the Franklin Avenue-Prospect Park shuttle, you would see a married-pair R-32 coupled to a single R-11 as R-34. (I doubt R-16’s were mixed in with R-10, R-27/30, R-32, R-38, R-40 slant, R-40M and R-42 cars, however.)
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