Re: (rshsdepot) NY and Northern . . .

["Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

rshsdepot
One of the large LIRR books has a photo of LIRR cars  at Chambers Street,
but I don't know what type..

The Delancey Street station is now known as Essex Street Station it
seems-the one with the trolley loops for lines off the bridge that you can
still see...From May 30, 1908 (did I say 1909 before!?) to August 3, 1913
Delancey Street was terminal for LIRR trains, BRT trains, and BRT
streetcars-a better question may be: Do photos exist of all that action at
Delancey Street???

The Chestnut Street Agreement of April 13, 1898. LIRR/BRT trains went from
Broadway Ferry (that is at southern side of foot of Williamsburg Bridge
today) via the Brooklyn Elevated to Rockaway Park 7/17/1898 to 1908. LIRR
electrified 1905 and the Broadway line from 1901, but to Rockaway still used
steam to 1906 when "Change at Ozone Park" says the Chestnut Street
Connection was electrified; which seems to say that LIRR ran steam as well
-From Broadway Ferry until 1906....but actually only the Brooklyn Union
Elevated RR (BRT in 1899) ran the trains with  mixed LIRR/El equipment...The
LIRR did not run its own trains over the flying junction and Broadway El
until it was fortified and put over the bridge....September 1917 the
agreement came to an end.

Déja vu again?

Paul Luchter

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