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Re: VIDEOS: BMT EL car 1349 ride at SLTM and a Trolley Ride at the TMNY |
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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Wed Aug 3 06:55:37 2016, in response to Re: VIDEOS: BMT EL car 1349 ride at SLTM and a Trolley Ride at the TMNY, posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Mon Aug 1 15:35:25 2016. Hello Express RiderYou are welcome, and thank you also. Also, if you find and look at old photos of BMT EL Gate Cars (and 1300 series motor gate cars operating up to May 1958) on the BMT Myrtle Ave. EL, in shots taken from the center island wooden platforms on the ancient older lower Myrtle portion, you will note HOW MUCH HIGHER the end open platforms were located along the edge of the somewhat lower wooden-plank station platforms. Meaning you had to STEP UP about 2 inches onto the gate car end open-platforms to enter the EL car. Also, Photos of BMT EL gate cars at the Park Row Station and Sands Street Station had and show the same height variance issue ! I do have photos of these situations which clearly show the height difference at these (and Myrtle) stations. So when the Q-types went to Myrtle in mid-1958, the A and C end motor cars having IRT Composite trucks, and the B trailer center car having its original BU Peckham trailer trucks (with it's 31' wheels) -- all cars sat at the same car to car floor and anticlimber height evenly. And thus, their side-entry-door floor-sills and the car floors were just as high and equally so, above the wooden station platforms, as were the end open-platforms and car floors as the BMT 1200, 1300 and 1400 motor gate cars (all having their original BMT Trucks) that operated the Myrtle EL line years before the Q's arrived in April-May 1958. Regards - Joe F |
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