On 21.08.17 2:56, 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.   
      
   Any chance to see that photo online?   
      
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