Jack May rode the Low-V train, Grand Central - 161st ST., which was followed by the Train-of-Many-Colors, on the Yankee Stadium Opening day, and sends these photos:
As a Follolw-up. Jack sends earlier photos from special nostalgia-trip trains that he chased instead of riding. At Neck Road on the Brighton Line, BU elevated cars, B-types, R!-R9s, and two R10s with an R16:
On the Jerome Avenue Line, the Low-V train, first photo southbound seen from Moshulu Parkway station, and then shown laying-over on the Yard Lead seen from Bedford Avenue station and passed by R142 trains.
daveklepper As a Follolw-up. Jack sends earlier photos from special nostalgia-trip trains that he chased instead of riding. At Neck Road on the Brighton Line, BU elevated cars, B-types, R!-R9s, and two R10s with an R16:
Are these the elevated BU cars? What does BU stand for? About what year was this taken? Did those cars come from the Transit museum, the open platforms really look ancient.
Brooklyn United Railways - then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, then, after reorganization following the Malbone Street disaster, Brooklyn Manhattan Transit.
Cars built around 1897-1899. originally for use behind steam. Electrified as MUs 1902-1904. Extensively rebuilt to Q-Typ;es in 1938, enclosed ends with no vestibules, two sxliding doors ech side, M U door control. 1949, rationalization of Queens service, Astoria all BMT with 10-ft.-wide cars, Flushing all-IRT, original trucks removed, and lighter trucks from IRT composite carfs installed for 3rd Avenue Elevated sdervice. 1955, end of 3rd Av. El., roofs lowere for service on the Myrle Av. El. this Century redbuilt again as open-platform gate cars for the Museum and for Nostalgia-Train service.
daveklepperExtensively rebuilt to Q-Typ;es in 1938, enclosed ends with no vestibules, two sxliding doors ech side, M U door control.
Were those sliding doors cut toward the middle of the car? If they were, they sure did a nice job of rebuilding the cars.
The wood 1200s, half that fleet, were rebuilt to the Q-types for BMT service on the Joint-with-IRT Astoria and Flushing Lines, replacing the 1906 composite open-platform gate cars with convertable sides, in time for the NYC 1939-1940 Words Fair.
BMT still had a number not rerbuilt. Here they are most of the cars southbound south of Metropolitan Avenue in winter 1947-48 on the Myrtle Avenue Line:
Q-Types, upper level, northern track, pre-simplification Queensboro Plaza Station, about to leave for Flushing:
Q-types at Willets Point Blvd. Station on the Flushing Line:
The photos were posted without any editing, simploy the raw scans. I* took some time to remove dirt and to correct the tilt one, but some may prefer the originals, anyway. And I found a third.
Hello Dave
" B U " stands actually for BROOKLYN UNION RAILWAYS for their Elevated Lines.
Brooklyn Union Railway was soon absorbed into the BRT (Brooklyn Rapid Transit) which later became the BMT (Brooklyn Manhattan transit) after the infamous BRT "Malbone Street Wreck" !
Thanks for correcting a 91-year-old's memory.
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