Metropolitan New York's Third Avenue Railway System

Metropolitan New York's Third Avenue Railway System
Author: Charles L. Ballard
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738538105

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.

Metropolitan Railways

Metropolitan Railways
Author: William D. Middleton
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2003
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780253341792

"Metropolitan Railways" is a large-scale, illustrated volume that deals with the growth and development of urban rail transit systems in North America.

Manhattan's Lost Streetcars

Manhattan's Lost Streetcars
Author: Stephen L. Meyers
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738538846

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.