3rd Ave EL Uptown movie footage

[@BingCherry11]

It's amazing for me just to remember that these old trains transported many of the kids from my old high school in the Bronx to school and back home, Monday through Friday for four years!!! Luckily the trains service was not terminated until the year after we all graduated!!!! I always amazed me how fast all the kids totally disappeared after that 3:00 pm bell sounded!!! Wow!!!!

[@baltoman24]

I remember seeing the 3rd Avenue EL when I was a child, visiting my grandparents, though I never got to ride on an elevated train. They were not popular as they were noisy and dirty and just a few feet from people's apartment windows. As a 6 year old I thought they were exciting! Thanks for posting- a trip for me down memory lane!

[@charlesseiderman29]

Makes me feel like I'm a kid again. The trains and platforms were shorter, and I remember the seats on the trains looked like corn. They had overhead fans, but I don't remember them being in use anymore.

[@lilliancharity2346]

Charles if u are in NYC area, can always visit NY Transit Museum in Brooklyn, u will see the corn-like seats and the overhead fans in their varied old train cars u can walk around in.

[@charlesseiderman29]

@lilliancharity2346 thanks, I'd like to check that out.

[@erie910]

It appears that the local tracks were unsigned. That wouldn't be allowed today.

[@firefly1933]

Thanks for sharing. Wonderful shots of the line NYC STILL hasn't bothered to properly compensate for the loss of.

[@adrina911]

I always wonder how it actually looked, it’s a shamed they didn’t keep it. Millions would be riding today.

[@leecornwell5632]

Let me tell you how did all the extra elevated lines came down because of Governor LaGuardia and the president Robert mosses could not stand for no extra elevated lines being running today those two evil bastards could not stand no extra elevated lines being the way it is now. That has nothing to do with lower riderships hell no. Look up on your Google type in LaGuardia the manager and Robert mosses that's the reason why people are not leaving there cars home 🏠. I'm telling you. That's how. They are definitely telling the gospel truth. Those two people were the real reason why they wanted these extra elevated lines to come down they could not stand no extra elevated lines with out a passion. That's the reason why the R62AS has those 8 signs and the 9 8 11 12 13 rolling signs on the R62AS Look at the higher numbers on the R62AS very very carefully.

[@Interscope100]

​@breadandcircuses8127 By fixing it and making the train line more compatible.

[@joestrike8537]

I've lived on 2nd Ave near 86 St for 40 years so I'm pretty familiar with the view travelling north on 3rd Avenue. At appx 66th Street there's a terraced high rise that looks similar to a building currently at that location and I'm pretty sure I recognize the next building which is still standing at the corner of 67 Street...OTHER THAN THAT, *EVERY* BUILDING BETWEEN 42nd STREET AND THAT HIGH-RISE IS GONE, all replaced by office or apartment towers! I have a couple of 8mm films I shot looking out of subway front windows I really should post one of these days.

[@randomclass4653]

it's very sad to see 195 + Kilometers of track and 113 stations closed between 1954-1961. Now all there is left is in the Bronx and Queens. it is estimated 2,500- 7,500 jobs or More were lost due to this huge mistake. all of this is now gone and 98% of the lines were converted into cars and other means of road transport. the lines were converted into scrap metal then reused . ever since 1961 No EL lines (except for a Tiny part on the Tip) remain. what was once a huge and Bustling Lines now in Waste.

[@trainluvr]

You don't know what you are talking about.

[@anthonykology1728]

time machine...amazing how re developed midtown once they took down the EL...but they not replace it ..could use a line on 3rd ave ....

[@Interscope100]

Wow, I can only imagine coming home straight up Third Avenue on an elevated train line 😮

[@MrEnoBeano]

That was awesome. I saw Smith and Lowenksy Restaurant

[@mitchellpak2795]

Maybe the best 3rd Avenue El film I’ve ever seen.

[@leecornwell5632]

Exactly 💯% right on that . They was dum enough to tair it down. Robert mosses forced the TA to tair down the extra elevated lines down. They was very very disappointed of tairing down this 3rd Avenue Elevated line down which that helped out the 2 5 trains and the BX 15A /29 buses and the 4 5 6 lines and the Metro North railroad trains. They are still processing about this 3rd Avenue Elevated line be tairing down and they want this line to come back really really badly. South Bronx is definitely suffering without the 3rd Avenue Elevated line. All they had to do is to do a complete over hual inspections and check the track frames trestles and beams and the stations and put a concrete floor s on the stations on the 3rd Avenue Elevated line to replace all the wooding floors . If they was smart enough they would of left the 3rd Avenue Elevated line alone. They could of got rid of the old ties and just leave the whole entire Elevated line half of it .

[@ALMAR-Music-Ltd.]

Are there any old videos of the IRT new lots EL in Brooklyn New York heading towards Utica Avenue entering the Crown Heights tunnel?

[@xfrql]

Thank you for the new videos!!! :)

[@soundshaper]

By the time they shut down the 3rd Av El, they could've been running R-12s and R-14s on the line, instead they ran the old Low V IRT trains which looked antiquated.

[@KillerChair1]

Third and second avenues were all so human scale and charming, it was like an extended east village. Shame what could have been. It would have been just as charming as the upper west side is today. Now it's soulless, a concrete mess, full of bland towers with absolutely no character. A shame.

[@jessewolf7649]

I find the upper west side depressing, not charming. That said, you’re correct re the soulless character of much of 1st, 2nd and 3rd Avenues. Blame the architecture schools. I taught math to architecture students at Cooper Union for 10 years and I saw what they were exposed to …

[@KillerChair1]

@jessewolf7649 From an architectural standpoint, I disagree. UWS is also more human scale with small commercial spaces, restaurants, cafee shops etc. It feels more intimate. The side streets are even better. Overall it has more charm than the UES for me.

[@Babydux]

Bronx Third Ave El The first half of the Uptown movie/video (The Uptown Express) is very good, not as good and clear as the Vincent Seyfried 3rd Ave El movie. There are a few 1940's scenes going through the film to the 3rd Ave El on the White Plains Road Line. After that, it goes to the IRT 180th St West Farms and the quick scenes begin. The second half is filled with varying good to bad quality two-three second snippets skipping from location to location. The last sections appear to be mid 60's 3rd Ave El LoV trains in many locations ending in the final year of operation.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

I saw a Buick "clamshell" station wagon at 34:37, which was made between 1971-1976.

[@erie910]

It's curious to see some stretches of curve track without guard rails.

[@erie910]

Strange, isn't it, that New York found it necessary to abandon many of the elevated lines, but virtually all of Chicago's lines are elevated or at ground level. The only underground lines are under the Loop or on some of the Blue Line to O'Hare Airport

[@Interscope100]

Chicago officials tried to do the same thing with the El's, but the people demanded that they keep them!

[@Drpglass]

This city once had soul, character, working people. Now it has trust fund kidults and the bland condo towers they reside in.

[@413smr]

Some of those buildings are still standing in 2025.

[@michaelhudecek2778]

😊😊😊

[@johnlupo3919]

IT'S WHAT BLM DID TO THESE TRAINS!!!!!!!!!!!