Metropolitan New York's Third Avenue Railway System features never-before-published photographs documenting the final years of this streetcar system, from 1940 to 1957. Chartered as the Third Avenue Railroad Company in 1853, the system provided streetcar service on Third Avenue from Ann Street to 61st Street. The line eventually extended north to Harlem and across 125th Street and, in its heyday, north of Manhattan into the Bronx and northern Westchester County. Individual lines, such as the Yonkers Railroad, the Westchester Electric Railroad, the Queensborough Bridge Railway Company, and the Union Railway, are featured in this book. Metropolitan New York's Third Avenue Railway System recalls the bygone street scenes of Manhattan, as well as some of the carbarns and work cars and the car-scrapping yard employed by the system.
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Charles L. Ballard commuted into Manhattan from Mount Vernon via the New Haven Railroad to 125th Street and on the Third Avenue streetcars to Columbia University. While completing his master's degree in transportation, Ballard documented many of the streetcars that appear in this book.
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Charles L. Ballard is an award-winning Professor in the Department of Economics at Michigan State University. He is a widely-published author; a proud Princeton graduate; and has been a consultant to United States Department of Health and Human Services; Ministry of Business and Industry, Denmark; Finnish Forest Research Institute; Educational Testing Service; United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service; Helsinki School of Economics and Business; and the United States Department of Treasury, Office of Tax Analysis. Ballard is a member of the American Economic Association, the International Institute of Public Finance, the Midwest Political Science Association, and the National Tax Association.
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An excellent photo coverage of the Third Avenue Railway.,
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This review is from: Metropolitan New York's Third Avenue Railway System (Images of Rail) (Paperback)
I grew up in New York City and was fortunate to have been able to ride and photograph Third Avenue Railway streetcars in the 1940's and early 1950's (called Third Avenue Transit by that time). Charles Ballard has given us a fine Arcadia book with excellent photos of Third Avenue cars in Manhattan, The Bronx and Westchester County.I recommend this book highly for anyone interested not only in the streetcars of New York but also of the way the city looked over 50 years ago.I never cease to be amazed at the increasing number of fine Arcadia books in their "Images Of Rail" and "Images Of America" series that have been appearing these days. Some of these books cover streetcar and traction operations in a number of different cities and this photo coverage of the Third Avenue Railway ranks with the best of them.
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The center of metropolitan New York is densely populated Manhattan Island, where the Third Avenue Railway operated seven important streetcar lines on major thoroughfares, especially in northern or upper Manhattan. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Third Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York, Amsterdam Avenue, Tenth Avenue, Main Street, Fifty-ninth Street, Forty-second Street, Harlem River, Yonkers Railroad, New Rochelle, West Farms Square, Tremont Avenue, University Avenue, Jerome Avenue, New Haven Railroad, Westchester County, Getty Square, Times Square, Webster Avenue, Ann's Avenue, Car Nos, Kingshridge Depot, Nepperhan Avenue, West Farms Depot New!
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The center of metropolitan New York is densely populated Manhattan Island, where the Third Avenue Railway operated seven important streetcar lines on major thoroughfares, especially in northern or upper Manhattan. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Third Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York, Amsterdam Avenue, Tenth Avenue, Main Street, Fifty-ninth Street, Forty-second Street, Harlem River, Yonkers Railroad, New Rochelle, West Farms Square, Tremont Avenue, University Avenue, Jerome Avenue, New Haven Railroad, Westchester County, Getty Square, Times Square, Webster Avenue, Ann's Avenue, Car Nos, Kingshridge Depot, Nepperhan Avenue, West Farms Depot New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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