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Re: The Tuscarora Book of Forgotten Stations No. 21 - Chestnut Street Incline |
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Posted by Avid Reader on Mon Jan 18 09:43:36 2021, in response to Re: The Tuscarora Book of Forgotten Stations No. 21 - Chestnut Street Incline, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Jan 17 09:03:57 2021.  .jpg)  This was a BRT-style coupler, as these MP41 cars were built to run in joint LIRR/BRT operation (which ended in 1917) and were even nicknamed "Gibbs Cars" after the guy who designed the similar electric passenger cars for the BRT. After purchasing a bunch of these cars in 1905 for operation in newly-electrified territory, the LIRR purchased new MP54 cars in 1909-10. The shorter, MP41 cars were eventually relegated to rapid-transit service along the Atlantic branch and the longer and newer MP54 cars were used in the rest of electrified territory. I've never seen the coupler pushed over to one side like that. The last two MP41 cars to see LIRR service (#'s 1100, 1101) were used on the Mitchel Field Shuttle into the late 1940s, when they were replaced by two MP54 cars. (See image above from 1908 and note the coupler.) Archive/Info: Dave Keller  MP41 convertible third rail shoe from the LIRR to the BMT 
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