by Dave Keller
Nasadowsk:
I didn't say the old MUs didn't have accidents. Yes, they had some wrecks. And they had an occasional BAD wreck, such as Rockville Center.
I said that the ratio of accidents to the number of cars and trains in service over ALL the years they were in service was minimal. (First electric MU cars used on the LIRR in 1905. That's a 60+ year service record at the time of the RDC accident.)
The LIRR only had 2 Budd cars, in service for 12 years and one was wrecked totally with a fatality.
De402:
The crossing gates at the Blue Point Road crossing were installed in 1969 (after the grade crossing accident).
Dave Keller
I didn't say the old MUs didn't have accidents. Yes, they had some wrecks. And they had an occasional BAD wreck, such as Rockville Center.
I said that the ratio of accidents to the number of cars and trains in service over ALL the years they were in service was minimal. (First electric MU cars used on the LIRR in 1905. That's a 60+ year service record at the time of the RDC accident.)
The LIRR only had 2 Budd cars, in service for 12 years and one was wrecked totally with a fatality.
De402:
The crossing gates at the Blue Point Road crossing were installed in 1969 (after the grade crossing accident).
Dave Keller