Almost everything you could want to know about the BART Legacy Fleet - the BART car documentary.
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The BART legacy fleet signaled a new era of American public transit. A true space-age rapid transit system, the BART cars represented the possibilities for modern technology to solve traffic congestion and interurban travel demands for the coming decades and beyond. The sleek fiberglass cab, smooth lines, advanced technology, and comfortable interior of the cars were the gold standard for the new era of public transit. Through the decades, these cars were rebuilt, renumbered, and written off. This video is meant to provide the reader with a somewhat comprehensive history of BART’s original revenue railcars.
Clips taken from a couple old BART films - "A Matter of Pride" and "Transport for Tomorrow"
Song at the end is no other than "BART" by Ruby, 1977.
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A comprehensive history of the BART Legacy Fleet, from design to retirement.
Apologies in advance for a couple editing errors.
Chapters and Organization:
0:00 Introduction
0:51 Credit
1:10 Help Preserve 3 BART Cars
1:33 Table of Contents and Disclaimer
2:23 The BART Legacy Fleet Book
2:41 Introduction to the Legacy Fleet
4:28 Chapter 1: Design to Production
4:38 BART’s Predecessors
5:04 Creating the BART System
7:26 Designing the Cars: A Two-Pronged Approach
8:03 The First BART Cars – The Laboratory Cars: Reasonably High Speeds
9:10 The Mockup - Designing Comfortable and Attractive Cars
12:10 The Cab Pod
14:42 The BART Car Described
26:25 BART’s Automatic Train Control System
33:00 The BART Car Described, Continued
33:51 Aerospace Component Manufacturer Builds BART Cars
35:35 Rohr Prototype Cars
38:25 Production Cars
39:45 Chapter 2: Off and Running
39:50 BART’s Opening Day, September 11, 1972
41:30 President Nixon Rides BART
41:58 Fremont Flyer
43:39 Opening of the rest of the System
44:10 More A and B cars
44:33 Bicentennial Cars – Spirit of ‘76
44:58 Transbay Tube Fire
45:42 Chapter 2 – B Converts and Those Flat-Nosed Cars
46:00 Unreliable Cars
47:12 Increasing Reliability
47:45 A car to B car Conversion
49:01 Seat Slashing
49:40 The C1 Cars
51:14 Prototype C1 Cars
51:52 Production C1 Cars
53:26 Car Brightening
53:47 Captive Fleet and Shop Stickers
54:31 Wye Derailment, 1992
55:11 Delaware Car Rebuilding Analysis
55:50 The C2 Cars
57:28 C1 vs C2
59:44 Chapter 4: Midlife
59:50 A/B Car Refurbishment
1:01:50 US Flag
1:02:03 Marker Lights
1:02:14 BARTmobile
1:02:33 Intercar barriers
1:02:45 Grab Straps
1:02:55 Dirty seats replaced by vinyl seats
1:04:00 Yellow Priority Seats
1:04:11 Removal of Carpet
1:04:55 Security Cameras in Cars
1:05:52 Change in seat layouts
1:06:37 Ad wraps and Stickers
1:07:35 Screeching and Wheel Profile
1:08:39 Quality of Life Problems
1:09:23 Calling on Every Car
1:10:33 CB Cars
1:10:46 Fleet of the Future
1:11:26 Chapter 5: Sunset
1:11:55 Some unique A2 cars
1:13:13 Some unique B2 cars
1:14:06 Some unique C1 cars
1:15:02 Some unique C2 cars
1:15:27 End of the C2 Cars
1:15:57 End of the C1 Cars
1:16:46 Back to the As and Bs
1:18:02 Decommissioning, Scrapping, and Preservation
1:19:48 Legacy Fleet: Pioneers
1:21:00 End of the Line, Out of Service Train (Song: “BART” by Ruby)
