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Re: Chicago's First ''L'' (PHOTOS) too close to edge |
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Posted by Randyo on Tue Mar 8 13:54:14 2011, in response to Re: Chicago's First ''L'' (PHOTOS) too close to edge, posted by ChicagoPCCLCars on Tue Mar 8 11:47:02 2011. When I first started riding the BMT Eastern in 1956, one of the first things was the lack of outside catwalks on the el structures. I have heard that the Southern Division el structures were that way originally also but I always remember the West End and Culver structures having them. Eventually, all the BMT el structures received catwalks but when I was a M/M in 1969, the portion of the BMT Fulton St el which had been taken over by the IND back in 1956 was still without catwalks which have since been installed. A friend of mine who was a trainmaster thought that was the reason the the BMT had its stop arms and trip cocks on the of side of the cars rather than the cab side as was the case on the IRT. In the event of a signal malfunction, there would have been no way for the M/M to manually drive the sop arm down on the cab side if there were no catwalks to stand on. |
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