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Posted by William A. Padron on Fri Mar 26 15:11:54 2004, in response to Re: Eric Oszustowicz Re: PHOTOS, PHOTOS-1980's Graffiti Era, Pre GOH-What do you think?,
posted by Chris R27-R30 on Thu Mar 25 13:40:03 2004.
Well, as I originally stated in post 569075 in essence previously, the graffitied R-10's were rapidly become less and less in use with every new IND-BMT car assignment that was issued between October 1987 and October 1988. The October 20, 1987 assignment issued that 144 R-10's were needed for rush hour "C" line service, along with the R-27/30's and R-38's.
On year later, the final assignment as issued on October 14, 1988 while for rush hour "C" line service also, there were 54 graffitied R-10's still on NYC Transit property, with 23 of them in active use and the remaining 31 to be used as spares. For the green R-10's, it still remained at 110 units intact at the time.
As a memory, on a Friday afternoon rush hour during the closure of the Williamsburgh Bridge in 1988 (due to its structual weakness at the time), I remember riding an "A" line put-in of an eight-car graffitied R-10 consist that operated as far as Euclid Avenue, with #3267 as the lead south motor car and #3068 as the north motor car. After the last stop at Euclid Avenue, the train was taken out of service.
-William A. Padron
["Fulton-Euclid Av."]
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