Hello Cocoloco !
Thanks also for stopping and taking a look here !
Here are a few short video clips copied from a VHS-C tape video I shot with my camcorder back in 1998 on my NYC EL Layout.
Seen is my fully scratch built train of O Scale IRT Manhattan EL MUDC (Multiple Unit Door Control) EL cars operating, as seen from a rooftop view, and one from a station platform view, as a local into one of the local stations on my EL...stopping, and then departing. Also a platform view of one of my O-Scale IRT EL Gate Car trains entering a local station. I hope the videos play OK here on OGR.
The prototypes of these IRT EL cars last ran (and I rode them frequently) on the Manhattan (until 5-122-1955) and Bronx (until 12-15-1956) 3rd Avenue EL.
About 450 or so of these prototype cars were conversion-created by the IRT shops in 1923 after being converted at that time to closed end vestibule MUDC Door cars from Open End Platform Gate cars, originally built between 1901 and 1910. The Manhattan 3rd Ave EL was my hometown neighborhood line while growing up.
Riding the 1300 series BMT EL Gate cars from 1955 thru May 1958, and the Q-Types (also fresh then from the Bronx IRT 3rd Ave EL service thru 12-15-1956) both on the Myrtle EL, was a great pleasure and a continuation of many numerous "nostalgic riding trips back in time" until the remaining BMT Q-Type wooden EL cars and their lower portion original Myrtle EL ceased operations in October 1969. The end then of the old wooden EL car operations era in NY City, and the USA !
Regards - Joe F
