1955 FULTON STREET LINE ELEVATED RAILROAD RAPID TRANSIT HOME MOVIE (SILENT FILM) MD52094b
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- These silent home movies of the Brooklyn and New York City Rapid Transit system were shot by Artie Keyser in 1955-56. The film shows the Fulton Street Line, an elevated line running at Liberty Avenue.
The Fulton Street Line, also called the Fulton Street Elevated or Kings County Line, was an elevated rail line mostly in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. It ran above Fulton Street from Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn in Downtown Brooklyn east to East New York, and then south on Van Sinderen Avenue (southbound) and Snediker Avenue (northbound), east on Pitkin Avenue, north on Euclid Avenue, and east on Liberty Avenue to Ozone Park, Queens. The portion in Brooklyn has been torn down, but most of the line in Queens has been connected to the New York City Subway and is now part of the IND Fulton Street Line (a portion of the A and C), an underground line that replaced the elevated line in Brooklyn. The structure was the main line of the Kings County Elevated Railway, first opened in 1888. This portion of the line west of Hudson Street (now 80th Street) was closed on April 26, 1956, and Fulton Street subway trains began using the line east of Hudson Street on April 29.
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The BMT always designed such creative, innovative and interesting rolling stock!!
Well, there's a blast from my past. I lived about a half-mile from here in the 60s and 70s. Odd to see the old cars again, especially in triples instead of the paired cars that came later.
The new ramp for IND trains is taking shape.
City Line station at Grant ave& Liberty was the last stop from 1894 to 1915 when the dual contracts extended the line to Lefferts blvd. Always 3 car/C type shuttle from Rockaway ave to Lefferts from 1940 to 4/26/1956 .. If you look close you can see the 1894 built el connect to the 1915 built extension.
From 2:08 on it's footage of the Jamaica line running between Elderts Lane and Forest Parkway, prior to 1955 (when the BMT standards were replaced with new R16 cars). It's a little eerie to see the train at 2:43 literally running past my old apartment on Jamaica Ave...nearly 20 years before I was born.
The R16s served the Jamaica line for some years. Occasionally you could find one on the LL Canarsie line. After November 1967 you could find them on some IND lines like the EE and GG.
Great piece of history.. this is amazing.. where do you they find all this cinema gold.
I'm not sure but I think that's liberty Ave from rockaway blvd
Nice piece of history. I rode the Standards on the Eastern BMT line back in the 60's. Thanks for the memories.
This is the only channel that gets my day better. Tremendous effort much appreciated.
Enjoyed this. I grew up just a few blocks away. It was after this video filmed, but still nostalgic.
Why does that music remind me of a Folgers Coffee commercial?
I'm just here for the mta gone wrong joke
But this is truly amazing
1:35. The LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch running under the Fulton Street EL. By 1955, the Branch was down to service only as far as Ozone Park.
Also, the IND subway would take over both the Queens segment of the Fulton Street El, and the Rockaway Beach branch of the LIRR south of Ozone Park.
The last LIRR train to Ozone Park ran on June 8, 1962. This was after the branch was single tracked in 1958 and the service reduced from two trains a day to one.
This most likely contributed to my grandmothers rare kidney tumor. (Growing up nearby exposure to fumes)
They were electric
In this age of tumultuous times, you would think that you would have posted something more relevant to the issues of today, Thanks to you I have wasted 10 minutes of my life never to be regain thanks to you and your posting this garbage! I mean really who cares about some stupid train/bridge from long ago? I had thought (wrongly!) that your posting would some relevance to us today, I mean why else really? Escapism into the ;past is not the answer todays issues
You are just a dick
Nigga go away
You are a waste
I hope that was sarcasm, in today’s world I am unsure. There is an awful lot of bigotry about statues these days as well.
Obnoxious, aren't you? If you are so stupid that you can't push the "stop" button and have to wait to the end of something you don't want to watch you have major problems.