BART: Riding Some of the Final C1 Cars in April 2023

There are only a handful of C1 cars left in service (of fleet used to stand at 150 just a few years ago). I've written about the C1 car story here: bartcars.weebly.com/c1-cars.html. Generally, C1 cars can be found on some Green and Blue line trains.
This video goes through each consist with C cars during the late morning and midday on 4/21/2023, plus a couple other days. There are plenty of exterior clips, interspersed with clips of riding most of these same cars. These cars are not far off from retirement and scrapping/preservation, so this video covers some of the bread-and-butter scenes that will be no more some time soon.
This video will serve as the April 2023 monthly scene video, probably.
0:00 380 leads, 357 trails at 16th St Mission (Blue line)
0:50 Riding 357
1:30 354 leads, 311 trails (missing all exterior number plates) at Balboa Park (Green line)
2:12 Riding 311
3:55 311 departs Glen Park
4:25 311 leads, 354 trails at Powell (Blue line)
4:52 Riding 354
6:15 328 leads, 449 trails at Bay Fair (Blue line)
6:46 449 departs Balboa Park
7:01 Riding 449 (trail car)
8:50 Riding 449 (lead car) Also see • BART Trains Racing - 7... for more of car 449
12:29 432 leads, 329 trails at Powell (Green line)
12:57 329 leads, 432 trails at Glen Park (Green Line)
13:28 Riding 432
14:06 379 at 24th St Mission (Blue line)
14:20 Riding 379
14:59 361 departing 16th St Mission
15:16 361 leads, 379 trails at Glen Park (Blue line)
15:48 Riding 361
16:40 361 departing Balboa Park (note missing car number plate)
17:04 365 at Glen Park (Blue line)
17:24 349 departing Balboa Park
17:49 365 leads, 349 trails at Powell (Blue line)
18:29 Riding 349
19:16 1261 leads, 417 midtrain, 1245 trails
19:48 Riding 417 (Departing Daly City)
22:58 Riding 417 (Balboa Park)
25:15 Riding 417 (24th St Mission) More on 417 here: • BART: Riding C1 Car 41...

[@evanstonbalce9588]

I will never forget the buzzing sound these cab cars make when they accelerate

[@basictransportenthusiast4386]

Funky door chime on 449. it was high pitched in one clip and then went to be low pitch in another

[@ATPTransit]

Clip with 449 as the lead car is the chime for 449. The door chime is transmitted throughout the train from the lead car

[@catvoncrimson666]

C1 car 350 is my favorite because I’ve ridden it more than once.

[@andrewfutterman3346]

Are the Westinghouse motors on the C cars louder than the ones on the A and B cars were prior to the refurbishment? Seems like in the few videos of BART I've seen from the 90s, they only make the buzzing sound when they first start moving.

[@Chopy61]

The buzzing you're hearing on the C cars is the motor controller, not the motor itself. From what I could see online, the A and B cars had the same kind of controller (Westinghouse Chopper) that the C cars had before refurbishment(IGBT).

[@AVeryRandomPerson]

C1 373 has been scrapped, I don't know about 387.

[@user-zj6dz8zi3u]

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[@thedamntrain222]

Looks like they might of retired the last remaining ones. I haven’t seen any in service for the last week or so.

[@ATPTransit]

Indeed, IIRC the last day for scheduled service was Monday 5/15. I'm not holding my breath that the remaining few will return to service (scrapping has resumed), but I know at least one will be preserved (holding for Western Railway Museum)

[@Ladyvisionary]

I rode Bart today and I was in the old C car.

[@ATPTransit]

Remember the car number?

[@jackongames6005]

Are the C1 still running or are they gone like C2

[@catvoncrimson666]

Some are. They actually wanna get rid of those ones first so they can have the original ones A class ones still in service for awhile before they go completely.

[@ATPTransit]

I counted about 15 rolling in service yesterday. Correct, plans are to have just A and B cars as the final legacy cars left in revenue service (sort of like how it was back in the 1970s).
BTW, no need to call them by class - it's just “A cars” (or “A2 cars” if you want to be technical) at BART. But, I do recognize other systems outside of BART call their own vehicles by a specific class. :)

[@catvoncrimson666]

@@ATPTransit hey do you have any videos with Trains that have two different end cars? Like a train with an A car as the front car and the tail car being a c car and vice versa?

[@krishnanramakrishnan76]

@@catvoncrimson666 His May 2023 video has and one other example is from his early 2022 series and the one with 319 departing Fremont

[@catvoncrimson666]

@@krishnanramakrishnan76 oh ok thanks! I’ll check it out.

[@TheBestiesTeam2022]

Which C car train has that very deafenind air horn?

[@ATPTransit]

All A and C cars have/had an air horn, but it was rarely used

[@TheBestiesTeam2022]

@@ATPTransit to be honest, I don’t even know why it exist because it literally deafens my ears.

[@ATPTransit]

It's to alert workers by the tracks and people standing too close to the edge of the platform.

[@TheBestiesTeam2022]

@@ATPTransit honestly, they could do those things where they have subway platform doors. Basically, the platform doors prevent passengers from going onto the tracks. Also, passengers should be able to listen or at least watch.

[@Chopy61]

@@TheBestiesTeam2022 It's an old system, it was probably done before platform doors were made. You'd be surprised with how some people dont pay attention