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First air-conditioned subway cars
- Trial run of 4 cars (in a 10-car train) on the F train
- From 179th in Jamaica to Lafayette Street in Manhattan
- Did the F stop at Broadway Lafayette?
- System had total of 4k cars
- Lindsay hoped cars would decrease hostility index
- Lindsay wanted to order 200 more cars for 1969 if trial was a success
- Cost expected to be $165k, compared to $125k for non-air conditioned car
- Walter Schlager was general manager of NYCTA
- Said air-conditioned subway train required about 1/3 more power than conventional train
- Would require new substations to provide additional power
- Source: Murray Schumach, "Hostility Melts in Cool 'F' Train," The New York Times, July 20, 1967. link
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