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The C-types were rebuilt open platform elevated cars.Each C-type unit contained 3 cars semi-permanently coupled, with a motor car on each end and a trailer in the middle.The platforms and gates at the ends of the cars were removed.In Boston and London, sliding doors were attached to the cars.The Manhattan elevated cars were the only other rolling stock in New York that had outside-hung doors.The conversion was ugly.The C-types were retired along with the Fulton El in Brooklyn.None survive.
The BMT modernized its elevated cars for the 1939 World's Fair.Several of its old elevated cars were selected for conversion into Q sets.This involved enclosing the cars' platforms, installing quarter-point side doors, and altering the control systems so that each set functioned in a motor/trailer/motor fashion.There were 30 three-car "Q" sets numbered 1600ABC through 1629ABC.The "Q" sets had one motor car and one unmotorized cab control car.
In 1950, the "Q" fleet was transferred to the Third Avenue Elevated and lighter-weight trucks from IRT were fitted under the cars.The last change to the appearance of the "Q" fleet was in 1957 when their railroad roofs were lowered so that they could make it through the subway to Coney Island.They retired at the end of the service between Broadway and Jay Street.
The BMT D-Type Triplex cars were ordered in 1924 under pressure from the city to abandon wooden cars in favor of steel, due to safety concerns arising from accidents, such as the Malbone Street wreck of 1918, which caused the financial demise of the B.
Unlike a standard subway car, which has a set of wheels at each end, the triplex cars share trucks.The articulated car units cannot be separated.The articulated joints have a truck under them.A triplex unit has four trucks, whereas a normal three-car train has two trucks on each car.There are two groups of trucks, one in the middle and one at the end.The triplex was the most heavy car in the New York City subway system.
The pilots went into service in 1925.They were used on Foruth Ave.The production fleet started arriving early in 1927 and the units were assigned to local areas.The units on the Fourth Ave were moved to the Sea Beach Express just before the delivery of the entire fleet.
The mainstay of service here was provided on 5/27/1959 when the units on the Sea Beach Express were moved to the Brighton Express.The Sea Beach Express units were used on the West End Express and various Nassau St. services.
Over the years, these are the main assignments for this type.There were many different assignments.The West End line's last units were removed from service on July 23, 1965, according to information from William Zucker.
A number of experimental trains were ordered in small quantities, as few as one train's worth of cars.Cars from the IRT and SIRT served time on the BMT lines.
The Pullman Car Co. built an experimental train in 1934.The "Green Hornet" was built mostly of aluminum and painted green.August 29, 1934 is when it entered service on the Fulton Street El.The Green Hornet was taken out of service on February 1, 1941 and removed from the 36 Street Yard on August 30, 1943 because it was needed for the war effort.The original number of the Green Hornet was 7000A-8000B-9000C-8001B-7001A.7003 A-B-C- B1-A1 was re-numbered.
The "Zephyr" is an experimental train built by the Budd Co.It entered service on the Fulton Street El on August 13, 1934.It was scrapped in 1960 after surviving longer than the Green Hornet.The original number was 7002A-8002B-9001C-8003B-7003A.It was renumbered in 1937.
Pullman manufactured 25 five-car trains.
Clark manufactured six trains in a blue and white paint scheme.
The Now York Rapid Transit Corporation has placed orders for a streamlined, light-weight, high-speed, three section car, built of aluminum alloy and equipped with rubber-cushioned wheels and rubber springs to reduce noise in operation on "L" and subway lines.The offices are on Flatbush Avenue Extension in Brooklyn, New York.
This new ultra-modern car is expected to provide an important and far-reaching advance in the desiga and equipment of cars for "L" and subway operation as the Modern Street Cars are operated on the Smith-Coney Island, McDonald-Vanderbilt, Seventh Avenue, and
The car bodies and trucks of the new rapid transit car will be built by the Clark Equipment Company in Battle Creek, Michigan.The General Electric Company will provide the motor and control equipment, as well as the air brake apparatus and door operating equipment.
The car will be 80 inches long and 4 inches wide, with four trucks supporting the three sections of the car body, one truck at each end and a truck under the two vestibules to allow passengers to pass.The total passenger capacity of the car is estimated at 318 passengers, with 84 seats for 84 passengers.
The rubber springs used on the Modern Street Cars in Brooklyn, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and other cities have been used in the trucks.The rapid transit car will include contact shoes to pick up power from the third rail and automatic stop devices to use in connection with the block signal system.The use of rubber springs improves the riding qualities of the car and reduces noise in operation by eliminating contacts between metal parts.
A substantial reduction in weight can be achieved with the use of high tensile aluminum alloy in the body structure.The maximum weight per axle of the new car with full passenger load is 14,400 pounds, as compared with 35,000 pounds for a standard subway car.The weight per linear foot of the new car with passengers is more than the weight of a standard subway car.The cost per linear foot of the new car in quantity production is $500, compared with $720 for the Independent Subway.
There are eight motors of 55 h.p. for motive power.Each has one motor on it.The control apparatus has been designed to provide smooth starts and stops by automatically graduating the increase or decrease of power to the motor.The schedules of operation for this car are faster than standard subway cars.
An important feature of the new cars is the use of three braking systems - a dynamic braking system in which the motors are used to stop as well as start the car; magnetic track brakes which operate directly on the rails and are located between each pair of wheels; and the air brakes with brakeBy reducing to a minimum the use of brake shoes in stopping trains, a lot of the brake shoe and steel dust will be eliminated and in the subways, the new type cars will provide a cleaner and healthier as well as practically noiseless.
The use of resilient wheels is an innovation in rapid transit car design.The Modern Street Cars have had severe tests on this type of wheel.
Many of the precision equipment units developed in recent years are to be used in the new car, including hypoid geers, shock absorbers and roller bearings, all of which are designed to reduce or eliminate noise in operation.Air will be provided by blowers through ducts to various parts of the car so as to maintain constant circulation of air, with an air filter to eliminate dust from air taken into the ventilation system from outside.The car will have high intensity lights arranged to provide an even distribution of light throughout the car.
The car numbers were purchased from SIRT.These cars were not compatible with the BMT Standards.Some cars were used for yard offices.
The car numbers 4581, 4583,4584, 4585-4605 were converted to platform level cars.