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R32 On MNCR Tracks????


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How is this possible if MNCR's 3rd rail configuration is different from the Subway's and LIRR's 3rd rail? Can someone please explain?


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How is this possible if MNCR's 3rd rail configuration is different from the Subway's and LIRR's 3rd rail? Can someone please explain?

 

The subway and MNRR's voltage are the same, they put special shoes on the R32 for it could run into GCT on its own power.

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All you do is fit the cars with slightly different shoes. I believe 2 FL9's had "double sided" shoes for when amtrak was moving from GCT to NYP.

 

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I believe 2 FL9's had "double sided" shoes for when amtrak was moving from GCT to NYP.

 

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I don't think so, I heard that they tried it but it didn't work out so that was the end of that crap.

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All you do is fit the cars with slightly different shoes. I believe 2 FL9's had "double sided" shoes for when amtrak was moving from GCT to NYP.

 

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So that means that some of the LIRR & MNRR trains are interchangeable?

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So that means that some of the LIRR & MNRR trains are interchangeable?

 

The LIRR has a 750 V third rail, while the subway has 600 and the MNRR has 650, I'm not sure if trains could run on a higher voltage that they are supposed to run on, BTW the R44 was set the record before the LIRR switched from 650 to 750 V.

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Yeah it happend but why bother to ask?

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img_75611.jpg

 

img_75612.jpg

 

Coutesy of NYCSubway.org

 

 

 

How is this possible if MNCR's 3rd rail configuration is different from the Subway's and LIRR's 3rd rail? Can someone please explain?

Yeah it happened.......................in 1964.......................they managed.........................the train made it into GCT from Mott Haven..................they changed the shoes to under-running ones.

 

I'm sure they knew about the additional 50 volts in the third rail and weren't concerned. Maybe they ran the train in "series speed" (2 points of power) all the way down?

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