London Transport (uk.transport.london) Discussion of all forms of transport in London.

 
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #11   Report Post  
Old September 8th 11, 01:06 PM posted to misc.transport.rail.americas,uk.railway,uk.transport.london
CJB CJB is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity at LondonBanter: Jun 2007
Posts: 275
Default Prohibition-era train steams onto New York subway for 1920s TV series

On Sep 8, 3:13*am, Michael Wares wrote:
Love to see some footage on YouTube.


There are some videos athttp://www.subchat.com/read.asp?Id=1099197

Michael Wares


Thank you - great footage..

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.

In the late 1900s a supervisor had it in mind to scrap all the old
stock, and to tour the depots and sidings to ensure that all had gone.
A consist of Low-Vs had been hidden in railway sidings by staff away
from the prying eyes of those who wanted to scrap them.

One day said supervisor decided to check out rumours of where the cars
were. A member of staff heard about this and decided to get the cars
moved somewhere else. As soon as the supervisor arrived at the place
of rumour the cars were no longer there. Apparently they were moved
around the system in a kind of cat and mouse chase, with amazed
commuters watching the vintage cars pass through the stations. I
believe eventually they were shunted up a disused tunnel spur and left
until discovery many years later.

Once re-discovered they then became the main feature at the Transit
Museum in the disused station at Brooklyn Heights. And it is these
that form the Museum Train being used today.

CJB.
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules

Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
New York subway (was: London Free Rides) James London Transport 4 August 19th 04 12:44 AM
New York subway (was: London Free Rides) Nick Leverton London Transport 0 August 9th 04 09:35 PM
New York subway (was: London Free Rides) Mark Brader London Transport 0 August 9th 04 07:50 AM
Subway (New York) vs Underground (London) [Quite long] Gareth Davis London Transport 70 April 11th 04 07:39 PM


All times are GMT. The time now is 03:14 AM.

Powered by vBulletin®
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 London Banter.
The comments are property of their posters.
 

About Us

"It's about London Transport"

 

Copyright © 2017