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Re: Flying the Subway Express (Feb, 1938) |
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Posted by randyo on Wed Apr 15 13:25:42 2015, in response to Re: Flying the Subway Express (Feb, 1938), posted by VictorM on Wed Apr 15 12:20:50 2015. I can;t see how the end doors on the steels could be unlocked since the end excess on the cars made it extremely dangerous to walk between cars and they cars also lacked safety chains. In fact back then even when the R-9s were sent to the BMT the doors were kept locked between cars as well as the doors between D type units. What you may have seen was a light train going from Jamaica to DO Yd during which time the C/R might have opened the doors to perform certain employee functions. End (or bulkhead) doors on the steels were electro pneumatically controlled both from the C/R’s operating position and by a special handle adjacent to the end doors and were opened only for employee or emergency use. |
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