Brooklyn Streetcars

Download or read book Brooklyn Streetcars written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1854, the Brooklyn City Railroad opened four separate streetcar lines. The lines were introduced here several years before they were brought to larger cities, such as Baltimore, Boston, and Philadelphia, demonstrating the city's modernization and ingenuity. From its first introduction, Brooklyn had one of the nation's largest urban transit systems. With the advent of streetcars, the population in Brooklyn grew from about 139,000 to over 2.5 million by the time streetcars were retired. The street railway blended mobility with innovation, prompting one-third of New York City's population to call Brooklyn home.

Download or read book Re- Inventing the Brooklyn- Queens Connector Streetcar Project (BQX) written by Bob Diamond and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rehabilitating the Moribund Brooklyn Queens Connector (BQX)

Download or read book Brooklyn Streetcar Feasibility Study written by Barry Leonard and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report illustrates relevant streetcar components and experiences that are applicable to the Brooklyn, NY, Streetcar for the Red Hook district. Ten streetcar systems that are in operation, or beyond the planning phase, were considered as potential case studies for this report. These include: Portland; Charlotte; Seattle South Lake Union; San Francisco Historic; Tacoma Link; Tampa Ybor City; Tucson; Kenosha; Phila.; and Toronto. Summaries of these ten streetcar systems are included here. This case study focused on three systems: Portland; Seattle South Lake Union; and Phila. Girard Ave. Includes a summary on Lessons Learned. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.

Download or read book Manhattan's Lost Streetcars written by Stephen L. Meyers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Downtown Brooklyn Streetcar Loop Plan ca. 1989 written by Bob Diamond and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could be the time has come for a downtown Brooklyn streetcar loop, as a component of an overall Brooklyn- Queens waterfront streetcar system.

Download or read book Streetcars of America written by Brian Solomon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handsome multicolored streetcar is a nostalgic icon of the some of the most romantic and heritage-rich locales in America, including San Francisco, New Orleans and Chicago, immortalised on stage and screen in classics including 'Meet Me In St Louis' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. Streetcars of America chronicles these vehicles from the earliest animal-drawn carriages to the height of their popularity in the 1920s, when there were more than 1,200 tram railways, to the turning of the tide in the mid-twentieth century when congestion and attacks from the automobile industry eventually pushed streetcars from most urban landscapes. But it also looks at the recent efforts to revive tram heritage that have led to vintage streetcars becoming a hip and environmentally-friendly daily commuter service, as well as tourist attraction, in more than thirty cities including Memphis and Washington DC.

Download or read book New Haven Streetcars written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first street railway began operating in New York City in 1832. New Orleans inaugurated a street railway system in 1835, and most of the large American cities-Boston, Brooklyn, and Baltimore-were served by the end of the 1950s. In May 1861, more than a year before the nation's capital introduced this new mode of transit, the forty thousand residents of New Haven were furnished with local rail transportation. New Haven's population more than quadrupled between 1861 and 1948, and the city became Connecticut's largest manufacturing center. Street railways made it possible to reach both residential and manufacturing areas. New Haven Streetcars illustrates the essential role played by streetcars in the transformation of the city, with images from each of the six groups of lines that served the New Haven area, including the Yale Bowl open cars, the universal dump cars, the safety cars, and the horse-drawn cars.