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Hurricane Sandy wiped out the Broad Channel connection They are running shuttle service in Rockaway but had no connection to get the cars there They trucked them down Cross Bay Blvd. My brother in law was one of the crane operators
At the beginning of January, the actually swapped the equipment out. They got 1 track up and running ( with no power of course ) and they pulled the R32s out of the Rockaways and put them back to service on the C Train. They moved R46s from the A to the Rockaways, that were pulled by a Work Train Diesel locomotive.
Here are 2 of my shots of the H from last week...
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Thank you for posting the video. It was very cold those nights having to do that work then. I had the honor of riding the R32s the first day they put into revenue service one morning in September, 1964 on the old Brighton Line. I rode from Sheepshead Bay Rd. Station to the end of the run at 57th St. and 7th Av. There was a band playing as the train arrived at the 57th St. Station and we were handed post cards of the train setting in the NY Central Mott Haven Rail Yard one month earlier before they ran into Grand Central Terminal after their 3rd rail shoes were replaced with under running 3rd rail shoes. I think that these cars were chosen to be taken to Rockaway because they are the lightest in weight of all the current subway cars operating currently. I remember that when they were being tested before entering service it was found that because their weight was 12,000 pounds lighter that the similar cars in service they sat too high on their trucks and came too close to the subway tunnel roofs and also did not match up with the station platforms as they were too high so their truck springs had to be cut down.
Ed G. (Along The New Haven Line of Metro-North and Amtrak. The busiest rail line
in the U.S.A)
