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Posted by daveklepper on Tuesday, January 24, 2023 9:18 AM

Like a birthday present, Richard Panse sent me, with distribution authorized, of this wonhderful photo of 1001 at the Shore Line Trolley Museum, where I am still a member after 65-1/2 years:

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Posted by daveklepper on Wednesday, November 30, 2022 3:35 AM

Two of 1002 southbound at Seventh Avenue and 9th Street:

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, November 17, 2022 1:39 PM

McDonald-Vanderbilt PCC  1051 at last stop bafore entering the Coney Island multi-loop terminal.  El structure on left, the"F" today, then the Culver Line.   Above a two-level structure, today only the upper in use with the "Q."

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Posted by daveklepper on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 8:25 PM

Livingston Street in downtown Brooklyn.  Fan-trip PCC in post-WWII paint  passing a regular service car, Seventh Avebue or Smith St, - Coney Island Avenue:

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Posted by daveklepper on Friday, July 1, 2022 9:13 AM

Northbound 7th Avenue car on Jay Street  about to cross under the Myrtle Avene Elevate3d  Structre, probably photographed when I was transferring between a PCC ride over the Brooklyn CBridge and the Myrtle or Lexington Avenue Elevated.

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, March 17, 2022 8:24 AM

Arrival from Brooklyn Bridge at Coney Island via Vanderbilt and  McDonald Avenes:

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Posted by daveklepper on Tuesday, February 1, 2022 5:51 AM

Got the location of the rear-view 1000 photo, Church and Rogers Avenues.

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Posted by daveklepper on Monday, January 24, 2022 7:05 AM

The photos on the previous post are now repaired.  Now i will add:

A rear view of 1000, Church and Rogers Avenues:.

the Ocean Parkway underpass on the Church Avenue Line, as seed throuigh 1000's windshield.

a record of 1000 visiting the Essex & Delancy St. underground Williamsburg Bridge Terminal.

  

 

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Posted by daveklepper on Friday, January 21, 2022 7:47 AM

Some recently scanned  pjotos of 1936 one-of-a-kind aluminum Clark Equipment Co.-built 1000 on a fan-trip.

    

Two pictures, above, are on Georgia Ave at Liberty Ave, looking north.  The el structure just visible in the distance is the Broadway-Jamaica line. 

From Henry Raudenbush:  The above picture is on Liberty Ave at Junius St, in East NY, looking east.   The near el structure, on Van Sinderen St,  carried outbound trains of the Fulton Street and Canarsie lines, on 3 tracks.  The far el structure, on Snediker St, with 2 tracks that carried inbound trains of both lines.  Fulton St line operation through here was abandoned after the IND took over the outer end of the line (beyond Grant Avenue on liberty avenue), and much later, the tracks were rearranged so that Canarsie trains in both directions now use the near structure, and the other one has been torn down.  The hump in Liberty Ave crosses over the LIRR Bay Bridge Branch (used by the NY & Atlantic). 

These pictures show a fantrip move from the East NY Depot area, south on Georgia to Liberty, and then west on Liberty. 

 

 

  

Below, I believe Flushing Avenue in the Williamsburge-Ridgewood area of Brooklyn:

 

Coney bIsland Terminal.   Again from Henry: The other picture, with the curved surface tracks, is at the west end of the West 5th St terminal in Coney Island.  The el structure in the background is the junction of the Brighton and Culver lines just east of West 8th st station.     

DLK addition; The top level was used only by Brighton traiins, and the lower level by both Brighton and Culver trains.  Today, the lower-level connection to the Brighton no longer exists as track, only as structure, and the lower level is only for the "F," which uses the Culver Line structure on McDonald     Brighton trains are the "Q." and possibly an occasional "B" that runs pst its normal Brighton Beach end-point.

 

 

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Posted by daveklepper on Monday, November 29, 2021 11:19 AM

Photos sent by Russ Jackson, all his except one:   Two at Flatbush and Church Avenues, PCCs on the Church Avenue Line.  "Four PCCs on Chuch passed while I was there and not one Flatbush Avenue bus!  (Flatbush Avenue was the heaviest Brooklyn stretcar line with "Always a car in sight.")  Then south of Church on Macdonald,  with the PCCs preceded by a snow sweeper two photos).  Next an exception, a photo by Bill Madden, a PCC adjent the ramp connecting the subway at Church Avenue with the elevated at Ditmas Avenue.  Then a  PCC on the short-turn loop at Ditmas, then at Avenue I with a South Brooklyn freight train.  Other pictures of SB freights with PCCs are on the South Brooklyn thread on the Trains "General" Forum.

 

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Posted by daveklepper on Monday, September 27, 2021 3:04 AM

Also Smith St.

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Posted by daveklepper on Monday, August 30, 2021 5:43 AM

!066 is headed south only as far as 9th Street, thus the sign for the 9th street Carhouse, and not a Smiith-9th route sign, which is usual for the regular run, south from 9th Street on Prospect Park West (see earlier postings) to the regular terminal at Bartell-Pritched Square.

Note the sidewalk grills for the ventilation shafts for the subway (F and G currently).

The tracks in the forground are on Bergin Street, unused at the time of the photograph, with bus or TT service instead.  (1948)

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Posted by daveklepper on Sunday, July 25, 2021 3:25 AM

Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn:

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Posted by JEFFREY MARKER on Thursday, July 15, 2021 12:51 PM
The street is not that different, but where the tracks were there is now a two way bike lane along the curb, then a line of parked cars.
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Posted by daveklepper on Sunday, July 4, 2021 2:02 AM

Henry Raudenbush supplied view of Park Row City Hall terminal of Brooklyn Bridge lines as served in 1947 by the McDonald-Vamderbit, Smitih-Coney Island av., and 7th Avenue PCC lines, and several lines using Peter Witts.

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Posted by daveklepper on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 4:07 AM

R7.  Can youpost a picture of 1001 as now retstored at Branford (Shore Line Trolley)?

If you have difficiulty posting, please email as an attachment to daveklepper@yaho.com, and TI'll post it.

I'm still a BERA member.

My favorite car is still 629.  Hope the original control system (restored) is still intact and has not been modified.

 

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Posted by R7 of 9 on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 6:38 PM

The color scheme was selected by a designer working with St. Louis Car Co.  The body color is a saturated green/red grey.  Pretty tough to match, but I was able to do it when restoring 1001 in 2005.  Found an untouched original patch of 1936 paint under the right hand stoplight.  Used my Pratt art education and my wife's MFA to do it.  I think we got a good match.  Difficulty added as many of the pigments used in the mid 30's you can't even get anymore.  But we were able to use a computer matching software to help figure it out and tweak things to look right in various lighting.  

 

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Posted by R7 of 9 on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 12:40 PM

1038 is shown on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, car is heading south.  It probably took the bridge over to the loop in Long Island City if they were covering all usable trackage in 1948.  Probably also took the loop tracks on Box St. and Commerical St. in Greenpoint as well. Not sure if the bypass tracks on Franklin St. closer to the waterfront were still operable at that time. The replacement for the Box St. carhouse is still on Commercial St. and was built in prep for the trolleybusses that started running on this street in 1948.  I note that the overhead is still single wire, so its before the trackless started running.  The church in the background is St. Anthony's RC at the intersection of Manhattan and Milton Sts..  My own church St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church is just out of the photo at left further down the block on Milton St.

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Posted by R7 of 9 on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 12:32 PM

Hi - B&QT 1000 is up in Kingston NY at the TMNY.  It is nearly 100% complete as far as the parts go.  I am heading up the project to get her aluminum skins cleaned and treated in prep for repainting into the BoT Green and Aluminum and the interior as well.  It will be in the configuration as it was in 1956, but being in much better shape.

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Posted by daveklepper on Sunday, January 3, 2021 1:35 PM

Park Row Terminal at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge:

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Posted by daveklepper on Wednesday, October 14, 2020 7:14 AM

Here is another of 1038  on the Fairwell to Packiderm-Grey fantrip, again on the Grayham line:

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Posted by daveklepper on Monday, October 12, 2020 9:25 AM

PCC 1011 in a McDonald-Vanderbilt trip from Coney Island to Park Row - City Hall enters Brooklyn Bridge, while a 6000-series Peter Witt on Putnam or Flushing Avenue is about to exit on the Brooklyn side:

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, October 1, 2020 4:28 AM

In addition to having to rewire when a pole jumps from the wire occasionally, one has to clean out switch points on fantrips using routings not used in regular service.  I think this photo is at West 8th St., Coney Island:

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Posted by daveklepper on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 7:40 AM

Can any tell me what house-of-worship or building of other use belongs to that tower in the background, and is it still there 72-years later than the photo?

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Posted by daveklepper on Friday, September 25, 2020 9:43 AM

McDonald Avenue, adjacent to Coney Island Shops:

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, September 17, 2020 8:59 AM

A photo that took a lot of repair work, but an Icon for Brooklyn PCC's.  Given that the background buildings are in Brooklym and where the shadows are pointing, this must be early morning, June 1947 or 1948.  !064 is signed Seventh Av. Park Row.

The tracks saw cable trains opening the bridge, then elevated gate csr trains, with the streetcars on tracks in the roadways, then after 1942, Lexington Avenue and Myrtle Avenue elevated trains cut back to Myrtle, Bridge, and Jay Streets, and streetcars moved from the roadways to the segregated tracks.

 

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Posted by daveklepper on Monday, August 31, 2020 8:52 AM

And the fsntrip did run into Manhattan at the end of Brooklyn Bridge, Park Ro

 

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Posted by daveklepper on Monday, August 31, 2020 5:46 AM

Two more, the second on a regular PCC route, at the 9th Street Gawanus Canal Bridge:

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, August 27, 2020 1:43 AM

After most of the Brooklyln PCCs were repainted into green and silver, a fantrip was organized with one of the remaining grey and scarlet ones, but none of the remaining had missed suffering some body dents.  Photo stops were on lines that did not use PCCs.  I think the dents we removed with a general overhaul before repainting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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