Trolley Tuesday 10/15/20 - New York City Elevated Cars of the IRT and BMT

The City of New York's elevated and subway cars have always been a curious anachronism, even when they were still in service. Some of the first elevated electric cars in 1903 worked all the way up to 1950, with the last pre-New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) car designs being retired in 1969. However, despite their long working lives, many of the original Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) and Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (BMT) designs pioneered plenty of revolutionary ideas that modern R-Contract subway cars continue to use today. On today's Trolley Tuesday, let's strip the curtain back and take a close look at the rapid transit cars that shaped New York City!

Trolley Thursday 12/03/20 - The New York Railways & the Third Avenue Railway System

Today, New York City is home to a vast, extensive network of elevated and underground railroads that span its five boroughs, and no establishing shot of the Big Apple is complete without such a train roaring through a subway station or clattering overhead on some century-old iron girders. But before New York found its identity through rapid transit, the borough of Manhattan was on the move thanks to an extensive streetcar grid from its very inception in 1832 to the final "bus-titutions" in the mid-1950s. On this Trolley Thursday, let's see how streetcars were "made in Manhattan" and explore the extensive history of the New York Railways!