RE: (rshsdepot) Passenger car from Staten island to B&O connection for Philly...

["Lee Taylor" <sing4him3_@_comcast.net>]

1863     World's first subway opens in London.

1870     First Manhattan elevated line opens.

1883    Brooklyn Bridge opens with cable railway service between Brooklyn
and Manhattan

1885     First elevated line in Downtown Brooklyn

1894    Rapid Transit Commission formed; first electrified rapid transit in
New York area. 

1897     Rapid Transit Commission presents subway plan for New York; first
US subway opens in Boston

1900     Ground breaking for subway

1901     Cable cars are replace by streetcars from Houston Street to Bowling
Green.

1903     The last steam train on the 6th Avenue El is replaced by cleaner,
faster electric cars.  Ten subway workers die in worst subway construction
disaster - a roof collapse in Ft. George Tunnel.



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Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 7:01 AM
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Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Passenger car from Staten island to B&O connection
for Philly...

Talking about the Staten Island Railway (which I  just rode for the first 
time last month), does anyone know when the line was  converted from steam
to 
electric operation?  And when was it sold by the  B&O to the New York City 
Transit Authority?
 
            Daniel  Chazin
            Teaneck,  NJ

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