This is a BMT coal car used to delever coal to elevated stations back in the days when they were still heated by potbelly stoves.
Notice the transit type couplers.
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Wow, talk about form following function!
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That is a very cool looking car. Was it special built one of a kind? That could make winter time operations interesting.
-Kevin
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Yes, that car by American Pressed Steel was a one-of-a-kind, but it follows two former homemade wooden cars. When nolonger needed to supply coal to elevated stationss, (I suppose they discovered electricity : ) it was made into a ballast hopper, and then eventually into a flat car.
NYCT *likes* its crews to have shelters although there are front and rear decks for the brakeman to ride when kneaded.
Fascinating. And it would deter rivet counters ... because there are too darn many to count!
Dave Nelson
Here is another view of it in the Coney Island yards. On the adjacent track is an R-11 built by Budd in 1949. It was *supposed* to be for the NEW Second Avenue Subway, which of course was opened two years ago.
I thought the car was very cool, a coal hopper with sliding doors and windows! I immediately started humming an old Merle Haggard song, " I got swingin doors a jukebox and a bar stool" (Swinging Doors, 1966).
The little chutes on the side must be where the coal was dispensed? An operated must have had to go in the sliding door and run the chute?
As Dave pointed out, it would take a whole lota rivet decals from Micro Mark to build this car!
Mike.
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I forgot to ad the marker lights to my jingle! It's got sliding doors, marker lights, and windows.
mbinsewiThe little chutes on the side must be where the coal was dispensed? An operated must have had to go in the sliding door and run the chute?
No sidings. This is an elevated subway line. Just stop at the platform and hopefully the station agent was waiting there with his coal scuttle.
It probably ran in the same consist with the Trash Train and possibly even with the Money car. Service all of the station's needs with one stop.
In later years the money train ran by itself, with armored cars with gun ports and stuff like that.
On today's railroad there are no tokens, and cash is not handled in the station offices. There are vending machines that take cash or cards and are serviced from an armored car on the street. The mechanic with two armed gaurds come up to service the machiens.
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