Joel Up Front Posted June 5, 2011 Share #1 Posted June 5, 2011 If the more colorful bullets were done away with in 1979 and replaced with the ones we all know and love today, why do I keep reading about the double letters lasting until 1986? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamen Rider Posted June 5, 2011 Share #2 Posted June 5, 2011 Please, watch the Nazi Banksters Crimes Ripple Effect at http://jforjustice.co.uk/banksters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B35 via Church Posted June 5, 2011 Share #3 Posted June 5, 2011 I remember riding the RR to my father's house as a kid... I was born in 81... so the double lettered lines couldn't have been discontinued in 79 or w/e.... 1985/86 sounds about right... whichever one it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Of RedBirds Posted June 5, 2011 Share #4 Posted June 5, 2011 The last 2 lines with double letters were the 70(LL) and the 70(RR). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamen Rider Posted June 5, 2011 Share #5 Posted June 5, 2011 Please, watch the Nazi Banksters Crimes Ripple Effect at http://jforjustice.co.uk/banksters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shortline Bus Posted June 5, 2011 Share #6 Posted June 5, 2011 I remember riding the RR to my father's house as a kid... I was born in 81... so the double lettered lines couldn't have been discontinued in 79 or w/e.... 1985/86 sounds about right... whichever one it is. 1985 (I think around Sept. if i remember right)was when the double letter retired into NYC subway history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princelex Posted June 5, 2011 Share #7 Posted June 5, 2011 I remember riding on the AA in Sept 1985 so it was in the mid-80's when the double letters became extinct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R36 Preservation Posted June 6, 2011 Share #8 Posted June 6, 2011 Double letters were "officially" ended as of May 1985. But they remained on trains in practice, such as the R10s (CC/HH) until 1989 and also some R27/30s a while longer.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shortline Bus Posted June 6, 2011 Share #9 Posted June 6, 2011 Double letters were "officially" ended as of May 1985. But they remained on trains in practice, such as the R10s (CC/HH) until 1989 and also some R27/30s a while longer.. Thanks for clearing it up. I think it took until early '86 before the platform signs and station signs at least at the major Manhattan stations replaced the double letters to the current and then the . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INDman Posted June 6, 2011 Share #10 Posted June 6, 2011 Many trains kept their old signs with double letters until hey were scrapped. It wasn't a big deal because it the train even ran, you were ahead of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EE Broadway Local Posted June 25, 2011 Share #11 Posted June 25, 2011 The 70(EE) was cancelled Friday August 27, 1976. :cry: :sad: While double letters were ended, in 1985, I believe; the 70(AA) became the second train; the 70(CC) became the second train; the 70(GG) became the train; the 70(LL) became the train; the 70(QB) became the train; the 70(RR) became the train; and the Shuttles went from 70(SS) to . The original 70(K) train ran from 1968 to Friday August 27, 1976 while the original C train was the first Concourse Express (the didn't start until November 15, 1940). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irtredbirdr33 Posted June 26, 2011 Share #12 Posted June 26, 2011 If the more colorful bullets were done away with in 1979 and replaced with the ones we all know and love today, why do I keep reading about the double letters lasting until 1986? That's because two separate events keep getting lumped together. When the NYCTA introduced the Diamond Jubille Edition of the Subway Map in June , 1979 the two surviving independent shuttles ; 42 Street and Franklin Avenue, were re-designated from "SS" to "S". Six routes; AA,CC, GG, LL, QB and RR continued to use double letters. The subway map issued on April 15, 1985 was the last to show the double lettered routes. The next map was issued on May 10,1985 and was the first to show all single letters; AA to K, CC to C, GG to G, LL to L, QB to Q and RR to R. I believe that the effective date of the changeover was May 6, 1986. However since they could not change all the rollsigns overnight it was possible to ride single letter routes before that date and double lettered routes after that. Larry, RedbirdR33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kacie Jane Posted June 26, 2011 Share #13 Posted June 26, 2011 becuase that's exactly what happened. the map and signae was changed in 79, but the double letters weren't droped till 85. To expand/clarify what irtredbird just said, and to make a minor correction to Kamen Rider's first response... The "colorful bullets" in 1979 and double letters in 1985/6 were two totally separate things. From 1979 to 1986, you had the AA and CC in blue bullets, the QB and RR in yellow bullets, etc. So the maps and signage were changed to reflect the color changes in 1979, then they had to be changed again in 1986 to reflect the end of the double letters. Someone once posted a scan of an early 80's map in a thread here where you could see the current colors with the double letters. If I spot it again, I'll post it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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