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Re: Interesting Read: Original Destination and Route Designation for BMT Standards |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Oct 15 09:55:13 2017, in response to Re: Interesting Read: Original Destination and Route Designation for BMT Standards, posted by SLRT on Sat Oct 14 20:25:16 2017. I take this with a grain of salt. I've seen a lot of early and original material on the BRT and BMT and have never seen so many fanciful destinations.I don't know who the author of this list was. I can't say whether it was his personal fantasy of a roll sign or did he crank the roll sign and jot down all the readings. We'll never know. But what if the BRT had some of those unusual route and destinations in mind. When the Standard first plied the rails, it was the R-160 of its time. Nothing the IRT could compare. So maybe the BRT thought down the road of rebuilding some els for heavy steel subway cars and replace the "el" cars. Of course something happened below Malbone St. and the BRT wasn't long for this world. Bill Newkirk |
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