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How does a A Division train ...

posted 12 years ago by marbleann
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How does a A division train like the #6 end up in Coney island. It can't. I mention this because I worked on the 6 Train for 20 years and one of my trains my trains was the 123 for a while. The A division trains gauge is different, Coney island is B division where the gauge is bigger. You cannot put a A division train on a B Division track. The trains are huge.

B Division trains have 4 doors A only 3. The IRT is A Division and much older then the IND and BMT. The reason the A Division trains have such a small gauge is because of the robber barons which were around when the subway was build.

I think this was a big goof that the director should of gotten right. Too many people ride the subways in NYC and there are too many train buffs who would know that is a big mistake. Also a Dispatcher would never operate a train ,they do not know how to, Operators and Conductors is in the Transportation division, TD are station. They have to go to school to learn how to operate a train. Scott was real lazy about this flick.

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[–] marbleann 12 years ago

Because if you are going to make a movie at least get the basic details right. They did not even have the train markers right. All east side IRT trains have Green markers. They had red markers and those are all West Side trains and they are important because a lot of people cannot read and know their trains by the colors of the number markers. People like you are the reason movie making has become lazy and sloppy.

[–] bsharporflat 12 years ago

Well, I think it is an interesting bit of trivia. Worth mentioning.

[–] marbleann 12 years ago

TY, If you go into some the stations of the IRT yo can see tiles of the people who owned the stations Like the Astor Pl station that was owned by John Jacob Astors family you can still see the ornate tiles in the station to signify what station it is and it usually represented what business the owner was in like Beavers for Beaver Pelts the Astors made money from.