From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 9:56:22 PM UTC-4, danny burstein wrote:   
   > In <412913b5-fb3b-47c1-b812-28c412b5725a@googlegroups.com> han   
   ock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes:   
   >   
   > >Perhaps the original IRT generated its own power--though I'm surprised   
   > >it did so as late as 1965--but I question if _later_ IRT extensions   
   > >used IRT power, or used ConEd, as I suspect.   
   >   
   > The city sold off the various generator systems to Con Ed   
   > backin the late 1950s, in part (in _big_ part) as a budget   
   > gimmick to get some stop gap money for that year.   
   >   
   > However, the physical infrastructure was only slowly   
   > transitioned to what would now be called the Con Ed grid.   
   >   
   > During the 1977 blackout part of the Broadway IRT subway   
   > on the Upper West Side still had funcioning third   
   > rail power.   
   >   
   > I've got a picture [a] of a train in the 110th  street   
   > station, fully powered and lit.. whil the rest of the   
   > station is blacked out.   
   >   
   > [a] alas I've long since lost the negative. All I've   
   > got is the contact sheet...   
      
   Heh. I was on the 110th St. platform at 5:28, after some after-school activity,   
   for the '65 blackout. The older sister of a classmate of mine shepherded me to   
   a bus that went to the 125th St. bus barn and saw me onto the correct bus to   
   take me home.   
      
   I was really annoyed that I hadn't been trapped in a train.   
      
   My mother, who used to drive to work at City College, got home the usual way   
   and put candles in the front window, of the "sunporch" of our first-floor   
   apartment in a two-family house in Marble Hill.   
      
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