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Re: Photos: BMT ''C'' Types |
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Posted by randyo on Tue Jan 5 15:18:33 2010, in response to Re: Photos: BMT ''C'' Types, posted by Ian Lennon on Tue Jan 5 12:07:55 2010. The first and last photos are in CIY which had mostly covered 3rd rail by the time it fully opened in the mid 1930s since it serviced mostly subway equipment. By that time, the only Southern Div elevated line which was not merely an extension of a subway line was the 5 Av El which also served the Culver Line jointly with steel trains from the 4 Av subway. The other photo appears to be in ENY Yd which like all the Eastern Division yards had open 3rd rail since the Eastern Division had more exclusively elevated lines and only 2 lines that were connected to a subway. Since it was intended at some point to completely rebuild the entire Fulton St el to support subway equipment, the C types were equipped with subway type contact shoes which also enabled them to be used on open portions of the Southern Division where they served on both the Culver and West End shuttles in the early 1950s. Subway type shoes could, and did, operate on both types of 3rd rail and the shot of the Cs in ENY Yd shows them in the slightly higher elevated position. In the 1960s, the Qs had their elevated type shoes replaced by subway shoes allowing the portion of the Myrtle Av el between Bway and Met to be equipped with subway type 3rd rail. |
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