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Posted by randyo on Mon Sep 8 02:24:39 2025, in response to [PHOTOS] Odds & Ends Of The I.R.T., posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Sep 7 10:33:09 2025. If you take a good look at the photo of the Lo-Vs on the Jerome N/O Bedford Pk, you will notice crank handles on the end of the car similar to the ones on the battleship Hi-Vs that controlled the center doors. The first Lo-Vs had pneumatic door controls but no MUDC which came later. There were 2 handles, one for the end doors and one for the center doors which could be opened independently of each other. The Hi-V trailers were also set up that way. With that set up, the C/Rs could keep the center doors closed at stations like 14th St, Bkln Br (S/B exp tk) and South Ferry outer loop and keep the end doors closed on the S/B lcl side at 14th St and the inner loop at South Ferry. According to and old time M/M I knew since the first mainline Lo-Vs were the Flivvers it was those door handles that gave the Flivvers their name since they resembled the cranks on the automobiles of the day. When MUDC was introduced and selective door operation was no longer possible, gap fillers were installed at 14th St and Bkln Br. South Ferry did not get them until the assignment of the R types to the West Side lcls but C/Rs on trains using the outside loop had to manually lock out the center doors assisted by platform C/Rs at Rector St for 7th Ave trains and bowling Green for Lex service. By the time MUDC was installed. East Side through trains no longer used the inner loop at So/Fy and the Bwlg Green shuttle used manual door Hi-Vs and later specially outfitted Lo-Vs and eventually specially modified R-12s with selective door operation. |
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