To Joe F:
Thank you for the above information. I get my information as to who thank for savings these cars, it was Bill Wall who has been in charge of seeing that these cars sets are operating at these events. Bill told me around 15 years ago that Mike Hanna is the main person who saw that these vintage cars are saved starting in the late 1950s. Mike attended the 40th anniversary of the NYC Transit Museum last month and I always seek him out and thank once again for his past efforts. Last year for the 100th anniversary of the BRT/BMT subway service and seeing and riding the set of BRT/BMT Standards and Tri-plex cars I thanked Bill Wall and he said to thank guys that were seating in one of these cars for getting these car sets operating again and I did. The cars looked like new. I could not believe what I was seeing having ridden these cars in the 50s and 60s. A few years Mike Hanna told me that in the early 60s he was working at one of the IRT shops in Bronx when the BMT Multi light weight cars had just operated for the last time for a fan trip in 1961. Shorty after that fan trip he was transferred to the Coney Island Shops but he just missed getting a set of them saved. If Don Harold were at these events I would have certainly thanked him as well.
Ed G.
