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.

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

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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

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

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!)

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

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.

My Great Grandfather, Giovani Fortunato of Philadelphia, was on this train and survived the crash and died 4 years later of his injuries.

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 👍

good job!

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??

“167th Street & 9th Ave” was taken on the Jerome Avenue El, which connected to the 9th Avenue El.

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.

Amazing!

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...

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.