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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Feb 10 17:31:59 2000, in response to Re: How was it to ride the subway lines in the 60's and 70's?,
posted by joe caronetti on Thu Feb 10 10:42:37 2000.
Brian Cudahy makes a good analogy in Under the Sidewalks of New York, comparing the IRT car variations to watermark variations on postage stamps. He goes on to say that it was possible to distinguish a train of Gibbs Hi-Vs from a train of 1925 Lo-Vs by the sound of the motors. Never having ridden on any prewar IRT equipment, I can't substantiate that; however, since all prewar cars had spur-cut bull and pinion gears, the moans and groans were probably the same as the sounds I remember on the R-1/9s and BMT standards.
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