Brooklyn Rapid Transit Experiment with Cab Signaling and Speed Control in 1916

[@captainkeyboard1007]

This show was at its finest.

[@Qboro66]

Todays version of this in NYCT is CBTC(Communication Based Train Control)... The BMT is using this on the L line with ATO(Automatic Train Operation) and the IRT on the 7 line, ATPM(Automatic Train Protection Manual), if not ATO, and the IND on the Queens Boulevard corridor with ATPM only... Just about everything in this video made sense to me because as a NYCT Subway Train Operator, I use the 21st century version of this system on a daily basis in the Queens corridor. The signal system located in the cab on a color screen, indicating the "Movement Authority Limit" within the CBTC area, your speed and how close you are to a train in front of yours... Transponders located between the running rails and the train interacts with it with specifically designed under car equipment, wi-fi antennas located above and wayside and wayside signals flash in green aspect when CBTC is in effect. This system operates in a very similar way as outlined in the 1916 BRT Monthly and all of it is under the control of the Radio Control Center via computers... So yes it was in fact nearly 100 years before its time, in NYC apparently...

[@BMTLines]

Very interesting. Thank you!!

[@Qboro66]

@BMTLines The BMT prior to 1940 was very innovative... They devised that cab signal and speed system... IN 1916! They were first in NYC with a stainless steel train built by Budd no less... First in NYC with transverse cabs with the intent on going OPTO...(not necessarily an innovation) First, to have blended dynamic and friction braking...

[@luislaplume8261]

​@@Qboro66The Zephyer that the BMT received was the first stainless steel subway train in the world. Philadelphia received its first stainless steel subway trains fleet in 1960 from the Budd Company the same one that built the stainless steel subway train for the BMT I 1934. The R32s of 1964 was the first stainless steel subway fleet that the New York City goverment bought.

[@brianmohammed1790]

cool video