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Posted by Keeping the RAPID in Rapid Transit on Wed Jan 15 22:59:57 2025, in response to [PHOTOS] Identify These BMT Locations, posted by Bill Newkirk on Wed Jan 15 20:06:01 2025. Photo 1 has to be Coney Island Yard. Neither ENY nor Fresh Pond Yard have a Track 58. |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Jan 16 09:32:43 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Identify These BMT Locations, posted by Keeping the RAPID in Rapid Transit on Wed Jan 15 22:59:57 2025. Photo 1 has to be Coney Island Yard. Neither ENY nor Fresh Pond Yard have a Track 58.Thank you, the BMT Multi's threw me off. Bill M. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Thu Jan 16 10:03:10 2025, in response to [PHOTOS] Identify These BMT Locations, posted by Bill Newkirk on Wed Jan 15 20:06:01 2025. Overhead signage is interesting.Probably so the Yard Dispatcher in the tower could see things better. Especially with binoculars. Yes, NYCT Y/D's use binoculars, especially in a big yard like CIY, Jamaica, 207, or Westchester. |
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Posted by randyo on Sat Jan 18 02:00:52 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Identify These BMT Locations, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Jan 16 09:32:43 2025. Multis could often be seen in CIY since that was the BMT’s main shop. |
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Posted by Jailhousedoc on Sun Jan 19 13:41:59 2025, in response to [PHOTOS] Identify These BMT Locations, posted by Bill Newkirk on Wed Jan 15 20:06:01 2025. Can someone out there give me details on that #5000 locomotive ? I don't recall seeing it listed on the old NYCSubways.org website ( miss that website ) but I would like some details about it - was it allowed on the Myrtle Ave. elevated ? Was it preserved ? Thanks in advance. |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Jan 19 15:44:59 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Identify These BMT Locations, posted by Jailhousedoc on Sun Jan 19 13:41:59 2025. I'll have to correct myself on #5000, which was not a locomotive, but a pump car. #5003 should be the locomotive. Below is a photo dated 1930 in 36th St yard. More below photo.  #5000 was preserved and I believe was in the collection of Railway Preservation. if not possibly the NYTM or the Trolley Museum of NY. I haven't heard of it being scrapped and don't know where it's whereabouts. Below is a photo of #5001 which was the hose car in 36th st yard (April 22, 1931) nycsubway.org  #5002 in Coney Island yard (October 20, 1930) 
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Posted by randyo on Sun Jan 19 16:52:19 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Identify These BMT Locations, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Jan 19 15:44:59 2025. I think you might have your info a bit off. When I was qualifying as a M/M in miscellaneous equipment, 5000 was considered a locomotive and 5003 was a signal supply car originally called simply “the dolly” and more recently “signal dolly.” While 5000 had locomotive style controls and brakes like the steeple cab locos, 5003 had a manual controller that looked like the one on the D types, but had manual acceleration and operated like an IRT Hi-V. It also did not have a true “deadman’s button” in that the brakes did not apply in emergency when the handle was let up , only the power to the motors was cut off. It also had AMUE subway type brakes with and ME-23 brake valve. 5002 was a bit of an oddball on that it had the identical type of controls and brakes like BMT ABs but unlike most BMT equipment, the controller was on the left side and the brake valve was on the right IND style. |
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Posted by Jailhousedoc on Sun Jan 19 17:23:17 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Identify These BMT Locations, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Jan 19 15:44:59 2025. Thanks for the information - good to see how problems like floods inside the tunnels were dealt with back then. But back then, when work trains had to move supplies and equipment in places where the power had to be turned off, what kind of motive power weas used - I am talking about during the 1900's, 1910's, 1920's and 1930's - times before diesels were available for use inside subway tunnels. |
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Posted by TUNNELRAT on Sun Jan 19 19:14:47 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Identify These BMT Locations, posted by randyo on Sun Jan 19 16:52:19 2025. it also had 12 points on the controller it DID test run on the myrtle ave from B`way to the end at jay street, |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Jan 19 19:20:01 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Identify These BMT Locations, posted by randyo on Sun Jan 19 16:52:19 2025. Photo below: Coney Island Shops October 27, 1930  Going back to the OP, can you identify the location of #500o in this photo ? 
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Posted by randyo on Mon Jan 20 03:34:00 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Identify These BMT Locations, posted by TUNNELRAT on Sun Jan 19 19:14:47 2025. I don’t think it just tested. It most likely was picking up the unused signal equipment for use elsewhere. |
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Posted by randyo on Mon Jan 20 03:35:00 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Identify These BMT Locations, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sun Jan 19 19:20:01 2025. Correct, and 5002 was the garbage pickup motor. |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Mon Jan 20 07:02:15 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Identify These BMT Locations, posted by randyo on Mon Jan 20 03:35:00 2025. Notice the "AB" style marker lights. What's that rectangular object above the center window ? (Coney Island Shops - October 20, 1930) 
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Posted by TUNNELRAT on Mon Jan 20 09:27:13 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Identify These BMT Locations, posted by randyo on Mon Jan 20 03:34:00 2025. this is right from the M/M`s mouth who ran it,his name was"frenchy" |
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Posted by randyo on Tue Jan 21 02:07:37 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Identify These BMT Locations, posted by Bill Newkirk on Mon Jan 20 07:02:15 2025. That device above the center window is most likely an air vent. |
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Posted by randyo on Tue Jan 21 02:09:49 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Identify These BMT Locations, posted by TUNNELRAT on Mon Jan 20 09:27:13 2025. The only two M/M I can recall by name who ran the signal dolly were Teddy Aurora who was a BMT M/M and later after the BMT/IND merger, Henry Ruschmeyer. |
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