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Old September 9th 11, 10:07 PM posted to misc.transport.rail.americas,uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Prohibition-era train steams onto New York subway for 1920s TV series

On Sep 8, 9:06*am, CJB wrote:

I read in a book about the NY Transit System about how these Low-V
cars survived. I'm not sure of the details but the story went
something like this.


That was probably Stan Fischler's _The Subway: a Trip through Time on
New York's Rapid Transit_
(earlier editions published as _Uptown, Downtown_.

The cars were kept out of sight on the Dyre Avenue line in The Bronx.

Michael Wares