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Brooklyn – NYC Transit Museum: BMT D-Type Triplex Car 6095
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BMT D-Type Triplex Car 6095 (1927)
Car Manufacturer: Pressed Steel Car Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1927
Service: 1938-1965
Routes: BMT Brighton (D,Q), Sea Beach (N), 4th Avenue (R), and West End (B) lines
As subway service increased in the 1910s and 1920s, the private operating companies began to search for economical ways to increase passenger capacity. The BMT looked to new technology to offer a solution and in 1924 introduced plans for the Triplex, an articulated subway car. By the 1920s the concept of articulation–hinged, multi-sectioned vehicle body construction–had attracted a number of American street railways and inter-city electric "interurban" lines.
At 137 feet long and with seating for 160, the Triplex consisted of 3 car sections equivalent to 2 Standard cars in size and passenger capacity. At a time when many elevated lines operated with wooden cars, the Triplex represented the height of transit modernity. Soundproofing resulting from new truck design, produced a quieter ride. Illuminated signs, used for the first time, displayed both route destinations and "color-coded" numbers on car ends. Green signs indicated operation via the Manhattan Bridge; and white the Montague Street Tunnel.
The New York Transit Museum, located in the decommissioned Court Street subway station at Boerum Place, was opened 1976 by the New York City Transit Authority and taken over in the mid-1990s by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The museum includes subway, bus, railway, bridge, and tunnel memorabilia; and other exhibits including vintage signage and in-vehicle advertisements; and models and dioramas of subway, bus, and other equipment.
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