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Re: R10 Questions (569075)

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Posted by William A. Padron on Sun Sep 21 14:10:31 2003, in response to Re: R10 Questions,
posted by Chris R27-R30 on Sat Sep 20 15:29:14 2003.

There were still graffitied GE and/or non-GOH R-10's on the "C" line roster during between October 1987 and October 1988, but it is possible they were not been used or seen as frequently because they were winding down towards their final retirement The October 20, 1987 IND-BMT car assignment listed having 144 R-10's included in service on the "C" route, along with the R-27/30's and R-38's.

Soon, the GE R-10's would slowly be phased through many revisions of the needed car requirements through that, and when the October 14, 1988 IND-BMT assignment was issued, there was 119 R-10's that were to be in active duty. On that date, there were 54 graffitied units still on the property, with 23 of them in active use and 31 as just simply spares.

When all of the graffitied and/or GE R-10's were off on that November 10, 1988, all that remained was the 110 green GOH'd WH units. As a memory, I recalled one GE R-10 consist on a mid-1988 "A" put-in during the Williamsburgh Bridge shutdown that operated towards Euclid Avenue, with #3267 as the south motor car and #3068 as the north motor car.

-William A. Padron
["Wash.Hts.-8th Av.Exp."]

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