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Re: Interior lights |
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Posted by randyo on Thu Jan 11 18:04:45 2018, in response to Re: Interior lights, posted by BMT Standard on Thu Jan 11 16:56:23 2018. As I mentioned in my other post, prewar cars on the BMT and IRT did not have trainline control of their lights so they had to be turned on or off one car at a time. The first prewar cars withe trainline control of lights (as well as heat and fans) were the R-1/9s. Lines that operated i bot subway and in the open kept their lights on all the time. When the R types arrived on the BMT and IRT, it was possible to turn the lights on or off on the entire train so it was decided to take advantage of that capability. I believe that the D types and Multis were able to have their lights turned on and off in all sections of the entire unit and I do recall seeing it done on the Multis. Of course elevated lines could keep their lights off all the time during daylight hours except for possibly the Culver Line which went into 9 Ave Lower and the 6 and 9 Av ells running through the Anderson Av tunnel. I imagine in those cases, lights had to be kept on at all times. |
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