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This channel reflects my hobbies and interests including photography and the history of transportation. At times I have combined the two by photographing vintage and modern retro models among a backdrop of vintage railroad and transit equipment.
I particularly admire the history of the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Corporation (1923-1940), one of two private companies that operated the New York City Subway. It was the most efficient, progressive and profitable subway operator and a leader in the industry at the time. Unfortunately political considerations made it impossible for the company to continue operating. The video entitled "The Rise and Fall of the BMT" tells the story of what might have been...
My interests have expanded into taking videos of freight and passenger trains from different locations, beyond just the New York City area as well as air shows and other events.
I particularly admire the history of the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Corporation (1923-1940), one of two private companies that operated the New York City Subway. It was the most efficient, progressive and profitable subway operator and a leader in the industry at the time. Unfortunately political considerations made it impossible for the company to continue operating. The video entitled "The Rise and Fall of the BMT" tells the story of what might have been...
My interests have expanded into taking videos of freight and passenger trains from different locations, beyond just the New York City area as well as air shows and other events.
Fireworks Over Hell Gate: The 2024 Astoria Park Fireworks
Video of the complete 2024 Astoria (New York) fireworks as seen from 21st Road and Shore Boulevard
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Shore Line Trolley Museum: Museum In Motion Event 2024
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The Shore Line Trolley Museum held its annual Museum In Motion Festival on Saturday, June 22nd. This event showcased some of the collection in motion and many of the cars that aren’t normally seen running for the public! This once-a-year event provides all day photo ops. The parade includes a short narration on each vehicle certain to please history buffs, photographers, and rail fans young and...
Museum In Motion 2024: After the Show
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The 2024 Annual Museum in Motion event at the Shore Line Trolley Museum. This video shows the trolley and subway cars returning to the barn area after the show.
New York Congestion Tolling Update
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In New York City, a planned congestion pricing scheme will charge vehicles traveling into or within the central business district of Manhattan. First proposed in 2007, this scheme was approved and included in the 2019 New York State budget by the New York State Legislature. Its purported goal is to support the MTA's budget as well as cut down on traffic congestion. However, is this the ultimate...
September 11, 1905 Manhattan Elevated Derailment
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On September 11, 1905 a Ninth Avenue Elevated Train derailed and came crashing down to the pavement resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.
1927 Subway Bombing
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On The evening of August 5th, 1927 bombs exploded in the IRT and BMT 28th street stations reportedly as revenge for the upcoming execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.
A Pictorial Review of Progress on the Pennsylvania (1953)
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In March, 1953 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company published a brochure showing the investment that they were making in equipment and infrastructure. This brochure includes an artist rendition of the freight repair shop at Altoona, track map of the then new Conway Yard, the demolition of the original Broad Street Station in Philadelphia as well as various scenes of freight and passenger facilitie...
1906 Atlantic City Wreck
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The 1906 Atlantic City train wreck occurred in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Sunday October 28, 1906, when a West Jersey and Seashore Railroad electric train fell off a draw (swing) bridge, drowning 53 people.
PRR Broadway Limited
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The Broadway Limited was a passenger train operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) between New York City and Chicago. It operated from 1912 to 1995. It was the Pennsylvania's premier train, competing directly with the New York Central Railroad's 20th Century Limited. The Broadway Limited continued operating after the formation of Penn Central (PC) in February 1968, one of the few long-dista...
The Interborough Elevated in Pictures
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The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) operated elevated lines over Ninth Avenue, Sixth Avenue, Third Avenue and Second Avenue. This slide show is a brief sampling of some of the cars used on the lines. The focus is on the Polo Grounds shuttle, which was the remnant of the 9th Avenue Elevated that continued to operate past 1940, with a couple that were taken of the Third Avenue El. This v...
Brooklyn Elevated
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The Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Corporation operated an extensive network of elevated lines in Brooklyn using wooden "El" cars. This video contains various pictures from the collection of the late Victor H Gordon Jr. Music credit: Batty McFadden - Slower by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: incompetech.com/mus...
Shore Line Trolley Museum: Museum In Motion 2023
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The Shore Line Trolley Museum held its annual Museum In Motion Festival on Saturday, June 24th. This event showcased some of the collection in motion and many of the cars that aren’t normally seen running for the public! This once-a-year event provides all day photo ops. The parade will includes a short narration on each vehicle certain to please history buffs, photographers, and rail fans youn...
Crossing the George at Night
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I recently found this dash cam footage that I took back in 2017 while I was returning from New Jersey over the George Washington Bridge
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Experiment with Cab Signaling and Speed Control in 1916
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In 1916, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT), predecessor to the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Corp (BMT) tested a cab signaling and speed control system. This article explains how the system was designed to work. It was never implemented. It could have prevented the Malbone Street Wreck if it had been. I don't have any further information as to why it wasn't. Cost? Perhaps it didn't function...
The Cassandra Crossing (PA)
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Located at the end of Main St. in Cassandra, PA, the railroad overlook sits at Milepost 255.8 on Norfolk Southern’s Pittsburgh Line. I stopped by on June 11, 2023 to check it out and took some video of the trains that passed while I was there.
Pacific Electric Golden Jubilee 1902 - 1952
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Pacific Electric Golden Jubilee 1902 - 1952
CSX River Subdivision at Iona Island, NY
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CSX River Subdivision at Iona Island, NY
Parade of Trains Returns September 17, 2022
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Parade of Trains Returns September 17, 2022
Accident at Manhattan Crossing 1909 - see description for corrections
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Accident at Manhattan Crossing 1909 - see description for corrections
New York City Congestion Pricing Scheme Revealed
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New York City Congestion Pricing Scheme Revealed
It's so true That route today Would of been so awesome and very efficient
Thanks for the video. It showed a nice selection of the various cars the trolley museum has and operates.
Glad you enjoyed it
Very nice units. Thanks for sharing.
It's a shame this and almost every other legacy network in North America was dismantled post WWII. Steel wheel on rail trolleys were and and will continue to be the most efficient way to move people and goods around in the foreseeable future... Time to bring back this network to NYC and every other city that destroyed it. Roads should be for ALL types of vehicles not just private automobiles and occasionally buses or trucks....
The Mario M Cuomo Bridge is a bad name that is disrespectful to the Native Americans. Bring back the name "Tappan Zee Bridge"!
This was 12 days before the Mets won the world series over the orioles
Great video. Like me !!!
Nice video. Like me
And to top this,the pattern set by the D's,was carried through on the R1/9's,as the carbody was a single unit variation,on that theme! Pressed Steel also built a batch of the R1/9's,so they had the expertise! I'm surprised that no one has noted the obvious designs! Add to the current MTA designs,are repeating the AB/Steels headends,and that includes the LIRR/MNCR M-1's to M-3's,and the AC/DC NH units! Thank you for your attention! Thank you 😇 😊!
The dual contracts were signed in the nick of time. Same year the 'Federal' Reserve was created, cornerstone of the process of undermining real money and enabling wartime inflation (never knew it was double digit for multiple years!). If the dual system was delayed another few years, some lines would never have been built. The daily crush of overloaded trains and stations forced the issue. I consider it a miracle that as much as we have today actually got built at all. However, In hindsight I feel most of the proposed lines of the second IND system would likely have been underutilized and financially unsustainable. The Second Ave line was the one that should have been built by the 1950s and was most sorely missed. Of course there were cheaper alternatives to conventional rapid transit that should have been pursued, like LRT in street medians and coordination with and recycling of commuter and freight lines to fill in the gaps in subway coverage today.
I've heard type organ music at weddings I've gone to. This organ music was always popular at the receptions following the wedding ceremonies. Professional singers would be singing right in harmony with this organ music!
Truly a 1950s era like song!
I believe that the Broadway Limited died when the PRR died and became the Penn Central. After that,, the Conrail and AMTRAK versions were merely passenger trains running on only parts of the original route especially west of Harrisburg. The same can be said of AMTRAK's Lake Shore Limited.
i wish i could go back in time to ride the train.
I remember the RR, rode it everyday as a kid.
Fantastic images! Thank you!
its funny having grown up in Flat-bush along church ave and not having been familiar with the era of the trolleys, but still seeing a good bit of its remaining infrastructure which actually in some places still exists to this day. it took decades for the city to either remove the tracks or sufficiently cover them up, but one only has to look up alongside the buildings to see the Trolleys electrical infrastructure still intact.
Global warming, only we thought we were headed for an ice age.
AI voice is annoying
Actually this is on a list of videos that I will be re-doing. At the time I had a poor microphone. I have a much better setup now. I also plan on dividing the video so that each grouping of services is separated and a bit less rushed.
AMO história MAnda mais sobre os trens de NOVA YORK
This is BS!!!! And they wonder why people are leaving New York!🤬😡😠
Until they learn to control expenses, and limit their borrowing, the MTA will = more taxes ahead.
Thanks for posting this song. It most likely was an old radio commercial for when the Liberty Liners first entered service. So there most likely no additional lyrics. Since most radio commercials were not considered important once they were run and done they generally are not preserved anywhere unless it happened to be on an old network radio show. I did get to ride on the Liberty Liners when I was in college and worked out on Rt. 30. I used to ride out from 69th St. to Villanova and transfer to a bus to where I worked. I also had a small party on the Liberty Liner to Norristown and back one afternoon when I turned 21 and enjoyed my first alcoholic drink from the bar-lounge car that was on each Liner. I miss the luxury they provided on that route but is great that both sets are preserved. One in the mid west restored to the original Electroliner livery and the other here in Pennsylvania in the Red Arrow colors. I understand that both sets still can operate so new people can see what we once had.
Nowadays only the Dallas Area Rapid Transit comes close to the interurban trolley lines of the Pacific Electric Railways in size. I consider DART a modern interurban streetcar system.
Not until November 1, 1918 was there a worse accident in NYC during World War 1 of the Malbone Street wreck that involved an El train rounding the curve into Prospect Park station on the Brighton Beach line. It was a subway tunnel being built for future steel subway trains to use.
The actual date was 9/11/1905
Thank you. It was in my description but I added it to the title as well.
The 155th St. bridge was called the Putnam Bridge. When it was built it carried trains from the NYC Putnam Division into Manhattan. When the IRT took over the bridge the NYC trains terminated next to the Sedgwick Avenue station on the Bronx side of the river. This line was abandoned in 1958 resulting in the TA discontinuing the Polo Grounds shuttle as the New York Giants had already left the Polo Grounds for San Francisco after the 1957 season ended.
Great telling of a sad story.
Interesting to see that the newspapers of the time use the nomenclature 'tubes', that being a term I'm more used to hearing in reference to the London Underground (more specifically, the deep - level lines there, though the average passenger wouldn't really differentiate). I know that the rail tunnels under the East and Hudson rivers are referred to as 'tubes', which makes sense, but I didn't think the word was used in regard to the NY Subway, more generally; though I should say, I've never been to New York. I wonder was this, then, a word in popular usage in the '20's, and is it still, or has it died out? Also 'lavatory' is not a word I would have particularly associated with American English... perhaps it's one of those words like 'flat' (for apartment), that wouldn't be the default term in the U.S., but one still hears it from time to time..? (Sorry, I do realise that rail, and not linguistics, is your field of expertise - I'm just waffling really, and I don't particularly expect you to answer; but of course I'd be fascinated to hear anything you, or commenters generally, might have to say on the subject!)
I live in the NYC suburbs and my son lives in the city. In this day and age, no one ever uses the word "tubes" to describe the subway. Typically, people don't use the word lavatory. It's far from common, but not unheard of.
The term "tubes" to describe the subway was a bit unusual. Although the Hudson and Manhattan RR (today's PATH system) were commonly called the "Hudson Tubes". I recall seeing signs that directed people to the "Hudson Tubes" in addition to those that used "H&M". I can only assume that a lot had to do with the evolution of the terminology over the years. For example, I have seen photos of old signs and newspaper accounts refer to the Elevated as the "L" even though New Yorkers commonly call elevated lines the "El" while "L" is primarily used in Chicago. The BMT Corporation also tended to use British spelling on some of the signage it posted on its stations through the 1920s and 30s - the most common one being: "Trains Stop at CENTRE of Platform". This may also explain the term lavatory if it was still being used by newspapers to describe public restrooms in the 1920s.
The Broadway was a 4-track main but as kids we played on those tracks in Philly and there were 8 tracks across this wide expanse at Front Street, with an added 2 sidings. When a train was in the distance, one couldn' tell which track it was on. Hence, to us it was a game of 'chicken' to pick the track and stay as long as you can. We did get locked up once by railroad police. Well, no charges but our parents hadda come get us.
The station's were heated with coal Pot belly stoves.
I remember the gate cars,i was born on Mytle and Hall street in 1945. The station's were heated with coal and pot belly stoves?
I lived on the corner of mytle and hall street,and the train would stop at Washington Ave Station,those were the days
I remember when the new A&P opened
All the Elevated lines needed (at least in the outer boros) were to be maintained {and patrolled by police} adequately! I went to Brooklyn Tech from 1965-1969 and getting from the school to the train (IF you were lucky enough to get there unscathed by the ghetto criminals living in the projects) and it was a mere 30 minute ride! fast, efficient and relatively inexpensive especially if one considers the new move to electrical grids providing all city commuter transport.
I went to Bklyn Tech for those same 4 years. I used to look iut the window of the foundry class and dream of riding it. Never happened; thr neighborhood was dangerous, and it was easier to go the one block and grab the GG to the F at Queens Plaza. I DID get to ride the Jamaica elevated often, though.
My Great Grandfather, Giovani Fortunato of Philadelphia, was on this train and survived the crash and died 4 years later of his injuries.
Very sad to hear that.
As bad as it was, it would have been even worse had it not been for Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny. The dam prevented flooding along the lower Allegheny and upper Ohio which would have likely damaged both the Fort Wayne line which connects to Chicago and the Cleveland line which was a MAJOR route for iron ore from the docks to the mills around Pittsburgh at the time. It's not very likely that Conway would have been damaged since it sits on a bluff above the river, but it would have been isolated.
Thanks for the vid! Was in the NC Outer Banks when Agnes hit; evacuated Ocracoke Island on one of the last ferries out. Fam had to drive home in storm moving up coast, and it rained for days in MD. News reported devastation in PA.
Wow. That's awesome. Go be in time is fun.😊 Thankyou so much for your time today. 😊 Sandra Boston Massachusetts. 😊
Excellent 👍
Thank you!
good job!
Thanks!
What a contrast with Amshack!
Any photos of demolition of the line below Broadway/Myrtle junction?
The photo at the 2:35 mark is of the old 1890s Park Ave line as truncated
OK, am I losing my mind or is this a repost of a video you posted last night or the night before??
I had to correct an error. I mention it in the description. Someday I will figure out how some people add error corrections after uploading.
“167th Street & 9th Ave” was taken on the Jerome Avenue El, which connected to the 9th Avenue El.
When the shuttle first started operation in 1940 trains terminated at Burnside Avenue. The shuttle was soon cut back to 167th St. There were switches just north of the station to allow trains to relay on the express track which is not used in regular service.
As late as the 1960s there were still tracks and El type exposed 3rd rail on the stub and leading tracks to Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. I should know. I am a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era and I saw it from the train window sightseeing on the subway system in my old hometown of NYC during the Mad Men era! 😊
@@luislaplume8261 I remember seeing a few semaphore signals on the Jerome Ave. El in 1963. And, of course, the Myrtle Avenue El retained its exposed 3rd rail until the end, west of Broadway, as did the Culver Shuttle.
@@danielwaitzman2118 You are absolutely right! After all I asked my late father who worked in Bushwick for a ride on a weekend to see where the Myrtle Ave El ran to and in 1968 me, my late parents and younger brother rode it from Broadway Myrtle Ave Junction to the Bridge Jay Street Terminal in Downtown Brooklyn and we were at least 4 blocks from the Brooklyn Bridge! If only we thought of bringing our 1955 vintage Kodak Brownie camera with us! Joint subway and el train service ended in October 1969 and Myrtle Ave had the last one in operation.
Those old wooden cars in the snow sure looked like they were on their last legs, struggling in that blizzard! But those photos show that as time went on they became more and more dilapidated. It's a pity they couldn't maintain and rehabilitate the line and extend it back into Manhattan; it would be a very heavily travelled line today. 😢
there are many films showing the elevated trains in operation on You Tube. The portions of the subway running above ground give so idea how the elevateds used to run. It's amazing that the only time an elevsted train ever went off the track and off the trstles was one incident in the early 1990s and in its long history it didn;t happy again.
I think you meant 1900s.
Amazing!
Thanks!
Todays version of this in NYCT is CBTC(Communication Based Train Control)... The BMT is using this on the L line with ATO(Automatic Train Operation) and the IRT on the 7 line, ATPM(Automatic Train Protection Manual), if not ATO, and the IND on the Queens Boulevard corridor with ATPM only... Just about everything in this video made sense to me because as a NYCT Subway Train Operator, I use the 21st century version of this system on a daily basis in the Queens corridor. The signal system located in the cab on a color screen, indicating the "Movement Authority Limit" within the CBTC area, your speed and how close you are to a train in front of yours... Transponders located between the running rails and the train interacts with it with specifically designed under car equipment, wi-fi antennas located above and wayside and wayside signals flash in green aspect when CBTC is in effect. This system operates in a very similar way as outlined in the 1916 BRT Monthly and all of it is under the control of the Radio Control Center via computers... So yes it was in fact nearly 100 years before its time, in NYC apparently...
Very interesting. Thank you!!
@BMTLines The BMT prior to 1940 was very innovative... They devised that cab signal and speed system... IN 1916! They were first in NYC with a stainless steel train built by Budd no less... First in NYC with transverse cabs with the intent on going OPTO...(not necessarily an innovation) First, to have blended dynamic and friction braking...
@@Qboro66The Zephyer that the BMT received was the first stainless steel subway train in the world. Philadelphia received its first stainless steel subway trains fleet in 1960 from the Budd Company the same one that built the stainless steel subway train for the BMT I 1934. The R32s of 1964 was the first stainless steel subway fleet that the New York City goverment bought.
This is a good documentary, I was looking for a documentary video like this for some weeks after I read about it on the internet.