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Re: [PHOTO] R-10 on the BMT Fulton El = April 15, 1956. |
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Posted by William A. Padron on Sat Apr 17 09:09:46 2021, in response to Re: [PHOTO] R-10 on the BMT Fulton El = April 15, 1956., posted by William A. Padron on Sat Apr 17 05:29:12 2021. You might say that there was a short period of inspiration and quick turnaround that led into the R-15 design, right after the R-11 and R-14 fleets were created and drafted.Perhaps the tests using those axiflow fans and false ceiling seen inside R-1 car #103 may have been an inspiration to do something with the R-15 fleet. The roof design would had to been changed for the 100 car order to go through and later delivered through 1950, and so it became the turtle back dome one indeed, instead of the ogee roof as before. The new axiflow fans, of course larger and better than the R-10/12/14 family design fleet, were also used on Pittsburgh Railways' PCC-type street cars (units #1700 to #1799), when they were introduced there in the late 1940's. The sealed wide windows on those PCC's were a bit of a different matter (i.e. they could not be opened though). However, if you noticed, the dual porthole side door windows employed on the R-11 and R-15 fleets would not be repeated on the R-16 and R-17 contracts, but the solo porthole window on the storm door was retained though. -William A. Padron ["6239"] |
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