1/12/2023 0 Comments Urban strife steamThis was the "mystery photo" for August 2000. The Brooklyn Grade Crossing Elimination Commission was created by the New York State legislature on to accompish the goal of providing fully grade separated rights-of-way for the BRT's Brighton Beach Line and the Bay Ridge and Manhattan Beach lines of the LIRR. National City Lines, highlighting the role of highway-based businesses in the rapid decline of the U.S. The West End Line began life as the first little steam road to reach Coney Island. This is a story of its early days, by Morton MorrisĪmerican Ground Transport. Now it is one of the New York's oldest original subway stations, by Paul Matusīefore it Was the "W". It began life as a real estate office deep in the woods of Flatbush. Since municipal ownership, New York has had one of the most conservative transit managements in the U.S., but it once had one of the most aggressive and advanced in Brooklyn's BMT, by Paul Matus The Third Century: Rebuilt Again, Brooklyn's Historic Franklin Avenue Shuttle Reopens, by Douglas Diamondīack to the Future. What Is It? A Mystery Bus from the Archives, by Paul Matus When National City Lines Came to Philadelphia: Three Critical Years for one of Americas's Largest Traction Systems, by S.L. Our Spring Number, Special Spring Cover and Poem Lght Rail Plans in Dayton Ohio Stymied, by Paul Matus The BMT Culver Shuttle Closes, by Paul Matus Politics and History of the Transit Fare as the fare rises against the background of New York's Fiscal Crisis in 1975, by Paul Matus The First National Light Rail Conference, by James Seamon State of the Art Car Visits New York, by IIrvin Leigh Matus The Road to the Transit Museum: the Lines, the equipment, the 1965 New York World's Fair and the genesis of the Transit Museum by Irvin Matus and Paul Matus History of the Long Island Rail Road to 1925 Part I, by Felix Reifschneider The nation's largest commuter railroad is also its oldest Class I railroad, by Felix Reifschneider History of the Long Island Rail Road to 1925 Part II. The rural rapid transit line that was Commodore Vanderbilt's first railroad venture by Irvin Matus and Paul Matusįallen Transit: New York's Second Avenue el was torn down amid political pressure during WWII, leaving a hole in East Side transit service ever since, by Alexander N. Staten Island Rapid Transit, The Essential History. The story in xontemporary news accounts, researched, compiled and written by Gregory J. The Brotherhood of Interborough Rapid Transit Employees, launched an amazing 100% percent effective strike against the entire IRT rapid transit system. This article traces the terminal's history, and illustrates its startling new look by Paul Matus After 80 years of service, the huge Stillwell Avenue terminal in Coney Island, host to four rapid transit main lines, is being replaced. history and politics of urban rail transit
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