@West Side Joe posted:
The Subway Car at the left side of the station is my model (one of 2 I built) of an IRT 1939-40 NY Worlds Fair class Steinway Low-V. There were only 50 cars built (25 pairs) for the Fair as the IRT Company's newest (and final) rolling stock of 1939. They had a Motorman cab at one end and a blind end (no controls nor cab) at the other end -- where the door control boxes were located on the outside of the end walls. They could run as SINGLE cars alone (for yard moves, or whatever) but had to be coupled to another Steinway car so it could operate in the direction of its blind end.
The usual consist for the 2 car units of 1939-40 Worlds Fair pair of cars were:
[ CAB END - BLIND END ] + [ BLIND END - CAB END ]
--- and if a solo WF car was run without its opposite mate attached, it was run coupled in a train, with an older (1915 era) standard body Steinway Low-V (looked just like other Low-V Cars with the usual enclosed vestibule at each end) as :
[ CAB END - BLIND END ] + [ CAB END - CAB END ]
My Cars have full interior details - proper seats, ceiling fans, above window car car ads, and the inner bulkhead at the cab end of the car - see 2 interior photos below; (this was best quality available when I took them 25 years ago)
BELOW - view from Motorman CAB (see at left foreground side and inner bulkhead wall at right) end of the car. There is a 2 cushion rattan set under the side window in the small "cubbyhole" type space in front of the bulkhead wall at right. Ceiling vents are seen in ceiling sloping sides.
BELOW -- View at Blind end of car -- there is no interior bulkhead at this end - as seen at opposite end of UPPER photo)(yeah, I know the female seated figure looks, umm, odd, heh !)
Regards - Joe F
