New York City's Forsaken Streetcars Volume II - The Norman Rolfe collection of the BRT/BMT Fleet of the Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation. The timeline is primarily the 1940's and 1950's when the trolley was the principal means of surface transportation in New York City and the boroughs. This book focuses on the Brooklyn Streetcar System. This hardcover book is 8.5 x 11 inches, portrait, and contains 650 pages. There are almost two thousand pictures. This book is arranged in car number order, with some exceptions as noted. The goal is to show each individual car and sometimes the photographs can be a bit repetitious. Some of the photographs are better than others and we tried not to exclude many and to print the collection in its entirety. Most of these photographs were taken by Norman Rolfe in the 1940's and printed from digital scans of the original negatives. Many of the envelopes containing these negatives had only a car number and date. Norman Rolfe was a retired electrical engineer who became a citizen advocate for public transit in the San Francisco Bay Area on January 15, 2010. There are some "copy negatives" from his collection dating to an earlier time and they are presented here as well because they are part of the "Norman Rolfe Collection". The PCC streetcars of 1936 (1000-1099, pronounced ten hundred) are presented at the end of the book because these were the last "new" streetcars of Brooklyn. The BMT (Brooklyn Manhattan Transit) Corporation was the parent company of the B&QT (Brooklyn and Queens Transit). The B&QT was the name used for surface operations of the BMT. The BMT was the company that emerged in 1923 from the receivership of the BRT (Brooklyn Rapid Transit). All the photographs in this book have been professionally processed and presented. Most of the negatives used are 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches.