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1924 Map of Sheepshead Bay Area: Showing Race Track Spur & Manhattan Beach Division In the map shown below, which is a Rand-McNally 1924 Map of Brooklyn, which was taken from the David Rumsey Map Collection, you can see areas penciled in red: 1) Former BRT-LIRR Trackage to Sheepshead Bay Race Track and 2) Allignment of the LIRR Manhattan Beach Division Line to Manhattan Beac more... - 2013/05/23

Sea Beach Spur to the Gravesend Race Track in 1891? Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Author: Bien, Joseph Rudolp (1858-1950) Date of Map: 1891 Scale: 1:31,680 Page IV, Series 7 Phillips 2150 Copywrite2005 Folks, I took this clip off another on line map site, called "David Rumsey Historical Map Collection". There is more... - 2013/05/22

Position of Smith Street Gas Tank as seen from Smith-9th Street IND Station In the clip below, which is taken from Roger Arcara's video dealing with the New York Subway from 1940 to the 1970's I captured the relative position of the gas tank versus the station. You are looking at the extreme north end of the northbound (towards Manhattan) platform with the adjus more... - 2013/05/21

Third Avenue Trolley in Brooklyn - South Portion Prior to 1939 Source: Watson, Edward, B. & Linder, B. "3 Avenue Line", New York Division Bulletin , Electric Railroaders' Association, Vol. 21, No. 12, December, 1978, p.2 - 3. It is funny that in New York, there are two Third Avenues that had rapid transit on it: One in Brooklyn and one in more... - 2013/05/20

Old Elevated Equipment Video with Brooklyn Trackless Trolley Operations in Williamsburg and Downtown Brooklyn In this great video, (which I got off the web) I believe which was produced in connection with the Electric Railroader's Association fan trips, you will see old elevated equipment in Brooklyn, in color, with very good sound recording. You will also see for a few moments, Brooklyn trackl more... - 2013/05/17

Sorry, But there is "NO EL" for 58 Years We are past the anniversary of the end of service on the 3rd Avenue El from Chatham Square to 149th Street on May 12?, 1955 and here is a cute clip that I found on subchat posted by Monorail last Sunday. It will show you how 3rd Avenue looks today and there is a interesting King Kong cam more... - 2013/05/14