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Posted by Randyo on Sun Oct 10 02:17:08 2010, in response to A Small Question About IRT Hi-V Cars, posted by Union Turnpike on Sun Oct 10 00:00:21 2010. The deck roof Hi-V was the first order of steel cars after the original 1904 Gibbs cars and the first of the IRT cars to have a corner M/M cab instead of the full width cabs of the composites and the Gibbs. The name derives from the shortened clerestory on the car roof reminiscent of the streetcars of the day rather that the standard railroad style roofs on all the other IRT cars up till the 1930 World's Fair cars. Like the Gibbs cars, the deck roofers when delivered had no center doors but unlike the Gibbs cars, they had a structural provision for one and all Gibbs and deck roofers received them by around 1910 and the remaining Headley Hi-Vs and all subsequent standard bodied IRT cars came with them from the factory. One Gibbs car survives in Seashore Trolley Museum in Maine and one deck roof car survives at the Shore Line Trolley museum in Connecticut. There are presently 6 Lo-Vs preserved, one at Shore Line and the remainder at the NY Transit museum which are all in operating condition and the ones on the NYCTS are used frequently on fan trips and special occasions. There is also one World's Fair bodied car under restoration and it has been outfitted with conventional Lo-V trucks so that it will be able to run in the train of museum Lo-Vs. AFAIK, no composites, flivvers or standard body Steinways have been preserved. |
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