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The Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) was an urban transit holding company, based in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, and incorporated in 1923. The system was sold to the city in 1940. Today, together with the IND subway system, it forms the B Division of the modern New York City Subway. [1]
The BMT's predecessor BRT organized the rapid transit lines into two divisions, the Eastern Division and the Southern Division. When BMT service began on the Corona and Astoria Lines in 1923, a Queens Division was added. When the dual-operated Queens lines were divided between the BMT and IRT in 1949, the Queens Division was dissolved.
This is a list of Georgia companies, current and former businesses whose headquarters are, or were, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Companies based in Georgia [ edit ]
Benton MacKaye Trail near Fall Branch Falls, Georgia. The Benton MacKaye Trail or BMT is a footpath nearly 300 miles (480 km) in length in the Appalachian Mountains in the southeastern United States and is blazed by a white diamond, 5″ across by 7″ tall.
It was a prominent corporation and industry leader using the single-letter symbol B on the New York Stock Exchange. It operated both passenger and freight services on its rail rapid transit, elevated and subway network, making it unique among the three companies which built and operated subway lines in New York City. It became insolvent in 1919.
The BMT Bluebird Compartment Car stored in 36th Street Yard. The Bluebird, formally dubbed Compartment Car by its purchaser, the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), was an advanced design PCC streetcar-derived subway and elevated railway car built by the Clark Equipment Company from 1938 to 1940 [1] and used on the New York City Subway system from 1939 to 1955.
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Their average length was 170 ft (52 m), making them the longest articulated units ever used in the history of the BMT. The first two cars delivered were pilot cars. One was manufactured by the Pullman-Standard Company, and the other by the Budd Company, originally delivered in 1934 a few months apart. The Pullman-Standard's version was known as ...