To Joseph Frank:
Thank you for posting the video. I was right up front most of the time with Bill Wall that day. It was sure great riding those cars. I believe that was the last time the cars ran in fan trip service. I also rode them in 2004 between Brighton Beach Station and Kings Highway for the 100th anniversary of the subway system and when we rode them on the West End Line going to Coney Island and returned on the Brighton Line. I know that when talking to Bill that he and one of his motorman friend's would take a set of the various vintage cars out and ride the system from time to time. I last spoke to him earlier this year. I use to visit him at his office located in the office building in the Westchester Yards in Bronx. Yes I had read about the history of these cars and how they came to be saved. Thanks to Mike Hanna the dean of the subway system for getting many of the old cars saved.
Please contact me at: edmickey@optonline.net and we can talk more on this.
