By the first quarter of the 20th century, Manhattan had well over 400 miles of streetcar trackage, an investment of several million dollars. Less than 50 years later, the rail system had completely vanished. Manhattan's Lost Streetcars chronicles the finance, political pressures, and advancing technology behind Gotham's streetcar networks from 1890 to 1935. The story ends with the dismantling of the system. Manhattan's Lost Streetcars recalls a bygone era when public rail transportation was aboveground and New Yorkers rode the Metropolitan Street Railway, the Green Lines, the Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line, and the Brooklyn & North River line, among others. It features images of the independent rail companies and the individual lines that made up a vast public transportation network in Manhattan.
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Stephen L. Meyers, author of many transit articles, has collected photographs of New York City for over half a century. His personal library contains annual reports, consulting surveys, and even a collection of street railway franchises, while his photographic record of New York's street railway numbers over 28 volumes.
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I've often read about the Third Avenue Railway System but very little about the others. That is what this book covers and it was very interesting. Lots of good photos, too. The book, like the others of this series, is of a somewhat smaller format than typical for this type of book.
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storage battery cars, crosstown line, street railway lines, street terminal, streetcar service, bridge railway, ferry company, street railways Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Third Avenue Railway, Green Lines, East River, Metropolitan Street Railway, Manhattan Bridge, Three Cent Line, Central Park, Brooklyn Rapid Transit, Eighth Avenue Railroad, Ninth Avenue Railroad, Second Avenue Railroad, Track Material, Lexington Avenue, Long Island City, Brooklyn Bridge, Dry Dock, Queensboro Bridge Railway, Times Square, United States, Westchester County, Delancey Street, Queensborough Bridge, Union Railway, West Belt Line New!
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"Lost" streetcars? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
storage battery cars, crosstown line, street railway lines, street terminal, streetcar service, bridge railway, ferry company, street railways Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Third Avenue Railway, Green Lines, East River, Metropolitan Street Railway, Manhattan Bridge, Three Cent Line, Central Park, Brooklyn Rapid Transit, Eighth Avenue Railroad, Ninth Avenue Railroad, Second Avenue Railroad, Track Material, Lexington Avenue, Long Island City, Brooklyn Bridge, Dry Dock, Queensboro Bridge Railway, Times Square, United States, Westchester County, Delancey Street, Queensborough Bridge, Union Railway, West Belt Line New!
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