| Believe it or not, the move to R 10s was an improvement for this line. The CC was a rush hour only train that ran from Bedford Park Blvd in the Bronx to Rockaway Park. I often wondered if a train ever made it all the way from one end to the other before the rush hour expired. It was the exception to the rule that the IND got the new cars, and the BMT got the hand me downs. This train got R1/9s almost all the time, though once in a while there would be a set of R 10s, such as these. When the R1/9s were retired, these cars were moved off the A train to the CC. They were the last group on the B Division to have air operated doors, with the conductor standing between cars to operate them. They were already 30 years old by the time I got this photo at 8th Av and 42 St. |