Fresh from its 1930 IND and Brooklyn elevated car fantrip to Rockaway Park, the MTA continued its centennial celebration on October 23, 2004 with a run of elevated and subway cars from four decades, on the Brighton Line in Brooklyn in what it referred to as the “Cavalcade of Stars.” The IRT low-V car No. 5292, straight outta [...]
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1917 LOW-V CARS
November 1, 2004Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Low-V cars vintage cars
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1907 BRT CARS
October 17, 2004As Ray Davies puts it on a song on the Kinks’ Village Green Preservation Society LP, People take pictures of each other Just to prove that they really existed I’d seen photos of the wooden elevated cars that ran on Brooklyn Rapid Transit and later, Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, and I had even stood in them in the NYC Transit Museum. [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: elevated Queens Rockaway vintage cars
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VINTAGE SUBWAY CARS
March 13, 2004R4 car from MTA’s Transit Museum at Prospect Park LUDDISM isn’t Forgotten-NY’s thing. We don’t indulge in nostalgia because, when it comes down to it, the past sucks, in many ways. No air conditioning, no vaccines, Jim Crow laws and women covering up down to their ankles at the beach. No, we don’t want to [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: BMT Brooklyn Franklin Shuttle IRT Manhattan Miss Subways vintage cars