BART: Riding on B2 Car 1834 (Nixon Car)

A ride on B2 car 1834, originally built as A car 120. President Nixon rode BART on September 27, 1972 from San Leandro to Lake Merritt stations - this video captures the same route. This is the car he rode, and the seats directly ahead were where the President and First Lady sat on their ride. The seat I am sitting on was where B.R. Stokes, first BART GM, rode with the Nixons. - More details here: www.nixonfoundation.org/2016/...
A car 120 was converted to B car 834 in 1981. It was refurbished into B2 car 1834 in 2002 by Bombardier, and rolls in the middle of Blue line trains as of the time of this video.
More about the BART fleet at: www.BARTchives.com
More about BART B2 cars at: bartcars.weebly.com/b2-cars.html

[@QuarioQuario54321]

This car should be the B car to be preserved

[@bobo-san]

iconic design‼... sad but true this will never come back... enjoy the days they are still in service! 😎

[@TohaBgood2]

Iconic design but faaaaaaaaaar outside of its service life. This car should be in a museum, not carrying paying passengers! We shouldn't get too sentimental about these. They're public transit. If they don't serve customers to their liking, BART will simply run out of money and be shut down. BART needs to have modern comfortable equipment that appeals to the average rider. And the vast majority of the normal riders loathe these. I've seen people literally skip a train because it was a legacy one and the next one was a new 3-door train. The only other passenger rolling stock that is more hated in the Bay Area are Caltrain's unfortunate Gallery cars, and that's saying something.
BART should have replaced these years, perhaps decades ago. Even with an interior refresh they still look extremely dated, dark, and dingy. The seats bend under you and the springs poke out. The faux leather is all stretched out because the seat is designed for cloth not for leather. All the plastics are yellowing. And I'm not even going to mention the reliability of these. The BART techs literally keep these running via a combination of scavenged vintage electronics, custom fabricated parts, Arduinos, and duct tape. At this point, a museum needs to take one of these to restore to original equipment and another one with all the crazy mods that the techs have put on them to keep them running on life support for so long.

[@catvoncrimson666]

Was this the one Nixon rode?

[@ATPTransit]

Yes, see the description

[@FeelMyBirdie]

bruh you should've sat with ur back against the wall. never can be too careful with bart these days