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Posted by Joe on Thu Jun 16 11:19:13 2016, in response to Oldest NYC Subway car you ever rode on NYC Subway, posted by FormerVanWyckBlvdUser on Thu Jun 16 02:08:50 2016. I had to use the Interborough Fleet roster at nycsubway.org to sort out some early memories along the Broadway-7th Avenue subway. Boarding at Marble Hill (West 225th Street), the first car would often be a deck-roof motor, and there was a railfan window low enough for my eyes and nose.--- However, from what I figure out on the roster, we would sometimes encounter a Lenox Avenue local south of 96th Street with either a full-width cab or a door window that was too high for me to see out front. I presume these would be among the 300 Gibbs Motors (3350-3649) still hanging around the system, and older than the deck-roofs. --- The Broadway-7th Ave. expresses that we rode from Marble Hill could have "armstrong" doors on the first and 10th cars because conductors were nearby. Sometimes, and it was rarely seen, a five-car train on a Lenox local would have 4 conductors, all cars being "armstrong." |
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