A representative selection of images
of the BMT Elevated (Gate) Cars
(click here to see the photo captions only)
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| Numbers | Type | Notes |
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| 1-271 | Trailers | Built prior to 1900, modified for electric service |
| 600-683 | Motors |
| 700-760 | Motors |
| 800-859 | Motors |
| 900-941 | Motors |
| 1000-1119 | Motors |
| 1200-1299 | Motors | Built 1903 |
| 1300-1399 | Motors | Built 1905-1906 |
| 1400-1499 | Motors | Built 1907 |
| 1200 series and 1400 series manufactured by
Osgood-Bradley, Brill, Laconia, and Jewett car companies; 1300 series
by Laconia, Cincinatti, and Jewett car companies. |
Car Notes
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Preserved
(Or Saved for Preservation) |
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Converted to Work Service
(Might Still Exist) |
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Wrecked/Damaged in Accident
(Possibly Repaired) |
| Kings County Elevated 197 | At Shore Line Transit Museum.
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| Brooklyn Union 659 | At Shore Line Transit Museum.
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| Brooklyn Union 999 (Elevated Instruction Car) | At Shore Line Transit Museum.
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| Brooklyn Union 1227 | At Shore Line Transit Museum. Operational.
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| Brooklyn Union 1349 | At Shore Line Transit Museum.
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| Brooklyn Union 1362 | At Shore Line Transit Museum.
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| Brooklyn Union 1365 | At St. Louis Museum of Transportation.
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| Brooklyn Union 1404, 1407, 1273 | At New York
Transit Museum.
Brooklyn Rapid Transit 1404/1407. Two of the well-known trio of
wooden cars that has travelled the New York subway system periodically
for the past 25 years, 1404 and 1407 have led a strange and eventful
life. For the first three decades of their life they operated in
essentially the configuration they are currently in - open-plaform
wood cars. But in the late 1930's, to modernize the fleet serving the
Corona/Flushing line for the 1939 World's Fair, the BMT decided to
rebuild 90 of its old elevated cars into 30 semi-permanently mated
three-car sets known as "Q" (for "Queens") cars. This involved
enclosing the cars' platforms, installing quarter-point side doors,
and reworking the control systems so that each set functioned in a
motor/trailer/motor fashion. Car 1404 was rebuilt thusly and became
the "C" car of set 1603; car 1407 became the "A" car of set 1603. In
1950, the "Q" fleet was transferred to the Third Avenue Elevated and
lighter-weight trucks from IRT composite cars were fitted to 1603 A
and C (motor) cars. The final change to the appearance of the
"Q" fleet came in 1957, when they were transferred to the Myrtle
Avenue Line and their railroad roofs were lowered in height so that
they could make it through the subway to the Coney Island shop
complex. Additionally, in 1957 the 1603ABC set was renumbered to 1622ABC.
Retired in the late 1960's along with the other "Q" types,
the set now numbered 1622ABC was chosen for preservation and operated
on fantrips during the 1970's. In 1979 it was decided that the three
cars in set 1622 would be rebuilt to original as-built condition.
This was done, but incompletely; the cars retained their 1957 lowered
roofs and 1950 lightweight trucks. Since 1979, cars 1404, 1407, and
1273, have been on display at NYTM and has occasionally run in fantrip
service.
--Frank Hicks and Jeff Hakner.
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| 33, 1076 (convertible) | Fire damage, 12/07/1922. |
| 56 | Wrecked, 1/12/1917. |
| 80, 100 | Destroyed in Malbone Street Wreck,
11/1/1918. |
| 82 | Damaged and rebuilt into Car 684, circa 1910. |
| 261 (Kings Co.) | Collision at East New York Yard, 2/8/1925 |
| 725, 726, 1064 (convertible) | Damaged in Malbone Street Wreck, 11/1/1918. |
| 732 | Wrecked, no other info available. |
| 913, 919 | Fell from elevated structure at Flatbush and 5th Avenues, 6/25/1923. |
| 1016 (convertible) | Fire damage, 2/13/1918. |
| 1020 (convertible) | Fire damage, 4/23/1924. |
| 1045 (convertible) | Fire damage, 11/1/1920. |
| 1049 (convertible) | Fire damage, 4/16/1918. |
| 1080 (convertible) | Collision at Ocean Parkway, 8/5/1924. |
| 1087 (convertible) | Fire damage, 4/19/1921. |
| 1487 | Derailed, wrecked, 1917. |
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