Metropolitan New York's Third Avenue Railway System (Images of Rail) | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles L. Ballard
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0738538108
Dewey Decimal Number: 900
EAN: 9780738538105
ASIN: 0738538108
Publication Date: August 31, 2005
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Product Description
Metropolitan New Yorks Third Avenue Railway System features never-before-published photographs documenting the final years of this streetcar system, from 1940 to 1957. Chartered as the Third Avenue Railroad Company in 1853, the system provided streetcar service on Third Avenue from Ann Street to 61st Street. The line eventually extended north to Harlem and across 125th Street and, in its heyday, north of Manhattan into the Bronx and northern Westchester County. Individual lines, such as the Yonkers Railroad, the Westchester Electric Railroad, the Queensborough Bridge Railway Company, and the Union Railway, are featured in this book. Metropolitan New Yorks Third Avenue Railway System recalls the bygone street scenes of Manhattan, as well as some of the carbarns and work cars and the car-scrapping yard employed by the system.
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An excellent photo coverage of the Third Avenue Railway. October 26, 2005
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I grew up in New York City and was fortunate to have been able to ride and photograph Third Avenue Railway streetcars in the 1940's and early 1950's (called Third Avenue Transit by that time). Charles Ballard has given us a fine Arcadia book with excellent photos of Third Avenue cars in Manhattan, The Bronx and Westchester County.I recommend this book highly for anyone interested not only in the streetcars of New York but also of the way the city looked over 50 years ago.I never cease to be amazed at the increasing number of fine Arcadia books in their "Images Of Rail" and "Images Of America" series that have been appearing these days. Some of these books cover streetcar and traction operations in a number of different cities and this photo coverage of the Third Avenue Railway ranks with the best of them.
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