Brooklyn Historic Railway Association


	What’s Inside Listed below is the near-complete index to the web pages of brooklynrail About Us – BHRA Organizational, Contact & Events Information Who we are, the history of BHRA Contribute to BHRA BHRA Supporters Press & Media Coverage (see what’s new page for most recent coverage) Contact Us Subway FAQ (external link) Upcoming Events Past Events Upcoming tunnel tours & art events BHRA Stuff – Hats, shirts, etc (coming soon) Main Page BHRA Projects BHRA About BHRA Info About Aatunnel Booth in Brooklyn Brians other transp projects Brooklyn news BuriedLocomotives Granville Woods Greenscape Railconst Info Pollution Litchfieldmoneytrail Koreanrapidtransit National City Lines Conspiracy New Brooklyn Streetcar News 7 News 8 No More Tunnel Tours Project Update Science of Railway Locomotion Verrazano rail tunnel Why pcc Brooklynrail web index BHRA – Current & Past Projects Planning Studies, Route Maps, Renderings & Illustrations Current & Proposed Route Maps Renderings and Illustrations BHRA in the 1980s – operating the #3 trolley on the streets of DUMBO Rail Construction in Red Hook (an illustrated undertaking) Phase I – construction on the waterfront portion of the route (completed) Phase IIa – beginning Phase II construction on Connover Street Phase IIb – Phase II construction on Connover & Reed Streets Phase IIc – Placing Rails using a boom truck Phase IId – Spiking Rails on Connover & Reed Streets Phase IIe – Leveling the tracks and pouring the concrete Phase IIf – Installing the trolley poles Phase IIg – Bending the Rails Project update page – the abandonment and demolition by the project’s sponsoring agency – New York City DOT. How well have we been doing? – Our “Report Card”/ Audit from State DOT – Aatunnel diagram – AA Tunnel Pirates NY Times 1893 – Events leading to tunnel creation – The urban underground tunnel draft – Tunnel Overseer Murdered Bklyn Evening Star – Walt Whitman – 2010 tunnelpic by jblakeslee – Tunnel Bklyn Eagle – Tunnel Opening Bklyn Eagle Dec – Tunnel title – Tunnel Aug – Tunnel Aug 5 – Trolley – BRINKEROFF REPORT – Conduitsystem – Induction telegraph system – Brooklyn and Queens Transit Car – Brooklyn trolley map BMT – Map downtown brooklyn – Tunnel NYC Area Railroad Map – Hwanggumbol Station – Bradford Snell The Street Car Conspiracy – Court Backs City NYT 1973 – Harpers Magazine Feb 1981 – Industrial reorg unit 1974 – Judge Carter Opinion 1973 – NYT Ted Kennedy GM 1972 – Senate 1974 – BHRA streetcar study 2014 – BHRA streetcar study 2014 v4 – Preferred Route Map draft 2010 – Streetcar vs nyct bus operating cost – Newsweek Tunnel Finding John Wilkes Booths Diary – Tunnel Prattfolio fall winter – Tunnel guinness world records 2011 daily news – Tunnel 3303 – Samson engine drawing – Narrows Tunnel Article 1st Page – Narrows Tunnel News letter – Narrows tunnel const plans 1925 – Narrows Tunnel Critique by BHRA – Planimetric Feb 2003 – Coney island map combined route circle v2 – Tunnel Bklyn Streetcar Plan ca 1989 – Coney I Transp Plan v3 – FSprague Electric Traction In Space Dimensions Part – PCC demise NYCTA 1956 Press Release BHRA’s Rail Cars & Restoration and Rehab of our PCC fleet The BHRA Rail Fleet (a listing of our Streetcars & Locomotives) Restoration and Rehab of our PCC fleet Restoration of ex-Boston Green line PCC #3303 Restoration of ex-Cleveland RTA (Shaker Heights) PCC #70 A look around our Shop Delivery of 12 PCCs to Brooklyn Delivery of the Vulcan Diesel Switcher Locomotive Before they were in Brooklyn, historic photos of BHRA’s rail cars in service Rail salvage operation in the Lehigh Valley (these rails are being re-used to construct our trolley line in Brooklyn) The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Homepage Upcoming tunnel tours & art events Link to Video Tunnel Tour (5 minute video) Streetcars, PCCs, trams & trolleys; Academic and historic resource A brief History of the Streetcar Historical Brooklyn Transit Maps Historical Brooklyn Transit Images Before they were in Brooklyn, historic photos of BHRA’s rail cars in service 1897-1920’s – Oslo, Norway (BHRA #3 trolley in service) 1947-1954 TCRT of Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (12 BHRA PCCs) 1954-1985 – Cleveland SHRT, RTA (Purchased PCCs from TCRT) 1985 – 2001 Buffalo NFTA (Purchased 12 PCCs from SHRT) 1951-1985 – Boston MTA, MBTA (Purchased New, Sold to BHRA) Electric Railway Historic & Academic Resources Frank Sprague – Electric Traction In Space Of Three Dimensions Granville T. Woods, his inventions made NYC’s Subway sys. possible Patents issued to Granville T. Woods The African Presence in Transportation (by David Head) Environmental and Pollution information Historic & Academic Resources Virtual BHRA – Quicktime Video, Slideshows, What’s new and more What’s new on brooklynrail.com (new web pages & site updates) Streaming Video and QuickTime Movies Oddities, curiosities & sort of relevant (but interesting) stuff Links to other relevant Websites Links – – – Last Updated in 2007 – More coming soon!!! Check out What’s new on brooklynrail for new web pages & updates that have not yet been added to the index