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Posted by randyo on Thu Jun 28 15:57:15 2018, in response to Re: [PHOTO] MOTORMAN, posted by Express Rider on Wed Jun 27 22:54:53 2018. On MUDC cars, there was a small lever that allowed the end vestibule door to open. The M/M was the able to manually pull the door partially closed and secured with a bar that occasionally doubled as an armrest. On the battleship cars, the M/M would have to manually operate the door lever to get the door open the right amount so that the bar could be secured. On the deck roofers and up, the M/M’s seat was behind the rear cab door panel and was out of sight when the cab was not in use. On the Gibbs cars, since there was no true cab since the entire front platform was the cab, the seat just folded against the rear bulkhead of the vestibule. On the Gibbs cars, the seat folded DOWN from its fully seated position while on the later cars, the seat folded UP and was secured by a latch. As a side note, when the higher numbered Gibbs cars were converted to MUDC, the former end door of the car became a pseudo front part to a cab door and a door pocket and sliding storm door were added. The so called cab door really didn’t function as such since there was no back portion like the decks and Hedleys had so it just functioned as a door to cover the controls while the cab was not in use and since the sliding vestibule “merry widow” doors were retained, the modified Gibbs cars operated like the unmodifieds with full cabs. It should be noted that when the Composites which as built were almost identical in interior layout to the Gibbs cars were sent to the els, they were modified similarly to the MUDC Gibbs with a sliding storm door. The difference with those cars, however was the vestibule door was removed and the vestibule widened like the Hedleys and a back portion to a corner cab door was added. Since the vestibules were slightly smaller that they were on the decks and the Hedleys, when the cab was closed, the 2 portions of it bellied out a bit which may be why the identical modification wasn’t done with the Gibbs cars. Another distinctive feature on the MUDC Gibbs cars was that the end side doors of the cars which were originally wood, were replaced by steel doors with a single panel below the window and instead of having a vertical bar separating 2 side by side window panes, the end doors had a horizontal bar separating 2 window panes one above the other. I’m not sure why the iRT didn’t opt to have a single window like on the original doors, but the narrowness of the door was probably why the iRT opted for 2 panes one above the other instead of 2 very narrow panes side by side. |
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