January 2000

Back to the Future: New York's Lost Transit Legacy The Bluebird represented the BMT's Car of the Future. The only five production units, pictured here, were  delivered to their new owners, the City of New York, in 1940.    Paul Matus Collection—rapidtransit.net graphic In the days before public ownership of the subway became the norm in New York City, there was competition, and with competition, there was innovation. . . .     Click here to continue >   This article is ©1999 by Paul Matus and The Composing Stack Inc. Text and illustrations may not be used without explicit permission, except for quotations of reasonable length used in critical reviews or scholarly commentary and attributed to "The Third Rail Online at rapidtransit.net" The Third Rail and The Third Rail logo are trademarks of The Composing Stack Inc.

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