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Re: [PHOTOS] The East Bronx IRT Crash of 1957 |
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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Thu Dec 29 11:29:20 2022, in response to [PHOTOS] The East Bronx IRT Crash of 1957, posted by Bill Newkirk on Tue Dec 27 20:47:03 2022. Hello Bill (Newkirk) This is an easy photo for me to ID. This is a TWO CAR train of Gibbs Pilot Motor cars (both with manual door hand-lever-controls) -- seen northbound at the E. 167th St Station of the IRT Jerome Line -- The train is being used in 1950 or so here on the Polo Grounds Shuttle. The Hi-v's for a short time replaced Composites on the Shuttle by 1950. This was when the Composites were removed and trucks under the Composites were removed to be used under the newly arriving ex-BMT Q types for 3rd Ave El Express service. The front truck under the leading Hi-V Gibbs Car is a Hedley Motor Truck -- I have models of these trucks in O Scale. ALSO NOTE the cut back 3rd rail subway-type paddle shoes on the trucks -- one shoe clearly seen on the Manhattan EL style uncovered 3rd rail still in use from its Manhattan EL division days of the earlier 9th Avenue E service days until June 1940. The subway-type paddle 3rd rail shoes were cut back to clear the short W. 162nd St Tunnel walls (of the Shuttle Line) which were so close to the Manhattan style 3rd rail that the full length normal subway paddle shoes would not clear the tunnel side walls. The Hi-V cars were by at least 1951 or 52, eventually replaced by surplus standard-body Steinway Low- V motor cars which operated the Polo Shuttle line until it closed in August 1958 Regards - Joe F |
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