![]() ![]() ![]() Originally, what makes up the present subway system was divided into three separate companies. Overview of separate company history IRT The 2 and 3's southern terminals in Booklyn were swapped in 1983 in the first place because 148th was not big enough to serve as the 3's primary yard, and the Nostrand Avenue line to the Flatbush Av. Lenox yard was once a major facility, but is now a satellite for Livonia. 238th St and/or E 180th St), the 6 (Westchester), the 7 (Corona), and the Livonia yard in Brooklyn which basically handles the southern ends of all the lines that run to Brooklyn. The IRT basically has a yard at the end of most branches: the 1 (240th St.) the 4 (Jerome), the 2 5 and 8 (E. ![]() Canarsie yard and the small Fresh Pond Yard are only satellites of ENY, with no maintenance facilities of their own, though Canarsie has the east's car wash. The BMT consisted of the huge Coney Island yard in its "southern" section (making that a "south-oriented" system), and East New York yard smack in the middle of its "eastern" section. line in Brooklyn was basically a satellite yard, storing and inspecting cars from both the A, and whatever other line that ran there (the E, H, and later the C). The Pitkin yard at the south end of the Fulton St. These yards were on the north ends of the lines, so the IND was a "north-oriented" system. The H (Fulton St Line) was based out of the 207 St yard when it first operated until the opening of the pitkin yard in the later years. The IND consisted of the 3 main yards: 207th, (A, B - Washington Heights line), Concourse yard, (C, D - Concourse line), and Jamaica yard (E, F, G - Queens Blvd line). There are basically five main yards for the lettered lines. Since the yards are the determining factor in car assignments, a key to understanding car assignments is to break the system down by its yards. This was easily noticeable even to a child, as I remember growing up, that my "home" Brighton line generally had R-32's and 42's and 30's on the local lines, the E and F would find these slant end cars, and the newest cars coming in generally went to what you could call the "superstar" lines: the busy and popular A, D, E and F. It is easily broken down, as cars are generally assigned in groups according to the yards lines share. While this is not an exhaustive record of where every type of car has ever run it is a general history of where car types have been assigned. ![]() 14 End of an era: Comparing the cars of the 60's-70's to now. ![]()
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