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massive fire occurred under a train on
Track 3 alongside the automatic train
during the overnight layover at Grand
Central Terminal.
The train on Track 3 was destroyed;
the fire was so intense that some of the
"h" column steel girders that supported
the street above melted and buckled such
that the surface of 42nd Street sagged
4 ft (1.2 m). The wayside equipment
was reused for manual operation, but
the automated train suffered smoke and
fire damage. The cars were retired with
some components reused for nonrevenue
operation. The control in the dispatcher's
office was near the fire source and was
destroyed. Manual operation on Track 4
was restored two days later. GRS restored
the car-carried pair of receiver coils and
subsequently installed them on car 2036
of the Chicago Transit Authority as a prototype to test cab signaling that included,
for the first time in rapid transit, the use of
audio frequency "jointless" track circuits.

figure 7. The train about to leave Grand Central Terminal bound for Times
Square. The flat board with the white circle on the wall is one of the proximity
detectors (photo courtesy of Richard White).

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Unfortunately, without Charles Patterson's
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