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Re: BMT Nassau Loop & ex-SIRT cars. |
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Posted by randyo on Mon Sep 12 03:51:34 2022, in response to Re: BMT Nassau Loop & ex-SIRT cars., posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Sep 11 20:14:18 2022. I’ve been railfanning since the 1950s and in all that time I have never heard any NYCTA (former BMT) employee referring to those cars as “standards” In the Southern Div they were referred to as “ABs” to distinguish them from the D types adn in the Eastern Division they were referred to simply as “steels” since they were the only heavyweight steel car used on the Eastern till the R types came along. I suspect that prior to their unitization into B units and the arrival of the D types, Southern Div personnel also simply called them “steels” also. The only people whom I have ever heard calling them “standards” are railfans. |
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