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Late-era "Bee-oh-Tee"/early "Tee-Yay".............

Interesting to consider why, starting with the "R-10s" and "R-12s" in 1948, all future subway car orders f ...

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Here is an excellent, detailed, "in depth" page on the Chambers Street station..............

www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/chambers.html

["BROADWAY SU ...

W.B.:

Recall, too, that when the "Steels" (aka "Brooklyn Battleships") were still the "new kids on the block", the cavernous Chambers Street station was a TERMINAL, an ...

W.B.:

From: "UNDER THE SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK" (Cudahy)...........

".........the new Standards should have between put to work on the Centre Street Loop as soon as they arrived on ...

Here's a rare WW-1 era photo showing a group of proud "Bee-Are-Tee" men crowding the front platform of a train of gate cars at Canarsie.

Note both the "toid rail" shoe and the t ...

Cyberrider:

FACCo's 1400-series 1939 YELLOW Model 740s were indeed updated by having Old Look fronts grafted on; personally, I cannot recall seeing these buses when I was a youngster.

NYO also r ...

Florescent lighting in buses..........

The "Arnines" (IND) were the last subway cars built for New York to have incandescent lighting.

Beginning with the "Artens" in 1948, al ...

The cavernous, ever being expanded, Park Row terminal, not long after electrification (1900s)

Note the early "toid rail" in this view, and the cars with trolley poles..........

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Here's a gathering of "gate cars" at the BRT's Canarsie yard, in 1915.

Note that, at that time, no "Steels" were yet to be seen, and overhead trolley wires dominated..........
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"Toid rails" in early years........

Recall, in the early years of the "INTERBOROUGH" (subway), most trackage was still underground; on the early "Bee-Are-Tee", however ...

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Nowadays, rapid transit/commuter trains utilizing "toid rail" no longer have lights that "blink" when passing through switches.

GOH'd subway cars (except fo ...

Cyberrider:

Mass transit in the greater NY/NJ area has gotten increasingly expensive in recent years, not to mention increasingly unreliable.

Many bus lines I once used on a regular basis either ...

W.B.:

You should find this of interest, from:

"ELECTRIC RAILWAY PIONEER" (Demoro)

This book deals with the electrification of the NWP's Marin-area (SF) commuter lines in 1903...... ...

H&M/PATH's long-gone Henderson yards, 1964...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21179

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

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Note "Aitch & Em" (n foreground) "toid r ...

W.B.:

Oh, yes, without a doubt, these distinctive "Shermans" were retired FAR too early; these hard-working tanks STILL had a number of good years left in them (again, still surprised why ...