tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282159227030924477.post1235552524504889086..comments2024-03-26T15:38:20.872-04:00Comments on War of Yesterday: Riding the El - 11 - Second AvenueJoe Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15794970054571692313noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282159227030924477.post-64095881611726785772011-04-19T13:08:19.388-04:002011-04-19T13:08:19.388-04:00Thanks for these wonderful pictures and the descri...Thanks for these wonderful pictures and the descriptions that went with them. There is very little information available on the net about the 129th terminal. I had never heard of the Bergen Cutoff until I read about it on your site, and I wondered why the 3rd avenue el had two levels in the south Bronx. The link to NYCityMap was very helpful too since the only aerial pictures of NY I had been able to find were from historicaerials.com and that site didn't have anything before 1954.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282159227030924477.post-87242663714210946352011-02-16T18:46:39.182-05:002011-02-16T18:46:39.182-05:00Perhaps the photographer wanted to catch a memory ...Perhaps the photographer wanted to catch a memory of the woman. :)<br /><br />I like that what looked to be two trainmen at first turned out to be four or more on closer inspection.<br /><br />-dannyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282159227030924477.post-68157691353577100052011-02-14T13:03:20.864-05:002011-02-14T13:03:20.864-05:00Each pair of open platforms between cars was super...Each pair of open platforms between cars was supervised by a trainman who opened the gates by hand and prevented people from leaning out or jumping on and off moving trains, but there was no one to watch the front and rear platforms. Those dangers were eliminated with the MUDC cars, which had had their end platforms enclosed. But as the previous commenter knows, there was another reason to keep people off the front platform.<br /><br />The motorman's cab was inside the body of the car, not on the end platform. This was even true with the MUDC cars like the one on the right in 137-5. So if passengers stood in the first car's enclosed platform, they would block the motorman's view forward!Joe Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15794970054571692313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282159227030924477.post-64896386524465880972011-02-14T12:37:33.198-05:002011-02-14T12:37:33.198-05:00137-5 detail -- the car on the right illustrates ...137-5 detail -- the car on the right illustrates an odd feature of the MUDCs -- the storm door slid to the right (facing the front of the car from inside).<br /><br />137-4 -- I never thought of the "FRONT and REAR platforms" in relation to the open platform cars, just to keeping people out of the end vestibules of the MUDCs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com