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6th Avenue Express - Rector Street to Burnside Avenue via Jerome Avenue Line - weekday and Saturday peak hours. Trains ran express on Ninth Avenue southbound in the morning and northbound in the evening, and made all stops in the reverse direction. As with many elevated railways in the city, the Sixth Avenue El made life difficult for those nearby.
[2] [7] Evening and Sunday Queens trains were extended to City Hall or South Ferry. On May 19, 1941 evening and Sunday service was discontinued. Finally, on June 13, 1942 all service was discontinued. [2] [8] The M15 bus, which runs along much of the IRT Second Avenue Elevated Line's route, is one of the busiest bus routes in New York City. [9]
The IRT Third Avenue Line, commonly known as the Third Avenue Elevated, Third Avenue El, or Bronx El, was an elevated railway in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City. Originally operated by the New York Elevated Railway, an independent railway company, it was acquired by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and eventually became part ...
Croker owned many shares of the New York Auto-Truck Company, a company which would have benefited from the arrangement. In response to the refusal, Croker used Tammany influence to create new city laws requiring drip pans under structures in Manhattan at every street crossing and the requirement that the railroad run trains every five minutes ...
The first New York-Chicago route was provided on January 24, 1853 with the completion of the Toledo, Norwalk and Cleveland Railroad to Grafton, Ohio on the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad. The route later became part of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, owned by the New York Central Railroad. [1]
New York's West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway opened in 1868 as a cable-hauled elevated railway [2] and was operated using locomotives after 1871, when it was renamed the New York Elevated Railroad. [3] [4] This was followed in 1875 by the Manhattan Railway Company, which took over the New York Elevated Railroad. [5]
The West Side Line, also called the West Side Freight Line, is a railroad line on the west side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.North of Penn Station, from 34th Street, the line is used by Amtrak passenger service heading north via Albany to Toronto; Montreal; Niagara Falls and Buffalo, New York; Burlington, Vermont; and Chicago.
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway: PCC&St.L Railroad: 1890–1917 Chicago and Northern Pacific Railroad: CTT 1890–1897 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway: NYC 1893–1930 1889–1893 Chicago and Great Western Railroad: C&NP 1889–1890 Chicago, Santa Fe and California Railway: AT&SF 1888–1890 Wabash ...