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The Gibbs Hi-V a New York City Subway car was built between 1904 and 1905 for the IRT and its successors the NYC Board of Transportation and the New York City Transit Authority. It was the first all steel subway car ordered for New York City.Because of the sliding doors which enclosed the motorman’s vestibules from the rest of the car compartment the cars were nicknamed Merry Widows.
