The 1 And The N1. On Saturday, August 29, 2026, 1 Line service was cut back to 238 Street while the staircase to the crew room was replaced at the 242 Street-Van Cortland Park Station in the Bronx, New York. To facilitate changing ends, passengers were discharged on the northbound platform at 238 Street. The train then proceeded onto the yard lead, before reversing to return on the southbound side. In the background at the 242 Street Station, a work train with South Brooklyn Railway N1 (General Electric 47T, R47) has cranes mounted on rail cars that are working in tandem with a Bay Crane on the ground.

The history of the South Brooklyn Railway (SBK) begins with its creation and private ownership as a freight railroad in 1887. It was later consolidated into the BMT, and in 1940, control was assumed by the City of New York. When new diesels N1 and N2 were purchased in the mid-1970s, then South Brooklyn Railway Freight Manager John Johnson asked local author and transit enthusiast Ben Schaeffer to design a new logo and paint scheme for the pair. Ben not only supplied a design that was accepted with large "SBK" letters and red accented by white, but later went to work for the MTA NYCT Subway as a conductor, where he was working in his 22nd year in May 2020 when he passed away from COVID-19. The locomotive was recently repainted into the standard MTA NYCT Subway C Division's standard yellow paint scheme for locomotives, with only the "N1” designation as a reminder of its true assignment. Though not visible at this distance, the logo on the side of the cab is the vintage two-tone M “New York City/Transit”.

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