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Posted by Express Rider on Fri Jan 18 02:57:32 2019, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for January 16, posted by randyo on Fri Jan 18 02:19:32 2019. I guess then, the cars were only referred to as "Standards" in the literature (?) Electric Railway Journal, etc. and later on in various articles or books about the BMT/NYCTS.I thought I read somewhere, that Standards/ AB's were also called "Steels" to differentiate them* from the BU's that ran on the Eastern division, especially during their early years of operation. *such that one "needed" to differentiate cars of such different appearance - heavier subway cars vs. wooden el cars. |