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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Sat Dec 2 18:33:37 2000, in response to Re: R30,
posted by Chris R27-R30 on Sat Dec 2 16:36:33 2000.
Me too. They were virtually the same, just for contract numbers, GE vs. Westinghouse electrical equipment, one type of conductor door opening panel on the R27 and a different one on the R30, and I'm sure other minor differences between the two contracts. Of course, the #2 ends, eventhough they had no motorman controls, had regular couplers, so if one car would be out of service for heavy work, another car would be mated, hence all the mixed marriages, with one car possibly being an R27 with the other an R30. The 4 groups of cars were ultimately put back together, albeit not with their natural mates in most cases, toward the end of their lives. Trivia: when the Westinghouse R30's (8412-8569) were transfered to the C line, there was one car missing (8512 or 8513 which was destroyed in the Metropolitan Ave. fire in 1976). A Westinghouse R27 was graffiti free and mated to a Westinghouse R30. I believe the combo was 8052-8515 but I'm not sure, but there was one pair for sure.
- NEW: Re: R30 - LuchAAA - Sat Dec 2 22:23:53 2000
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