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The following streetcar lines once operated on Long Island, New York in Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties.Many of these systems were owned by the Long Island Consolidated Electrical Companies, a holding company partially owned by the Long Island Rail Road, and Interborough Rapid Transit Company between March 30, 1905 and July 18, 1935.
Route. Notes. Hammels. Neponsit. Rockaway Beach Boulevard from Beach 75th Street to Beach 116th Street, north to Newport Avenue, west to Beach 142nd Street to Neponsit Avenue to west of Beach 149th Street. Built from 1904-1916; abandoned October 25, 1928. now Q22 and Q35. Hammels. Hammels Beach.
South Shore Traction Company. Suffolk Traction Company. Categories: Transportation in Nassau County, New York. Transportation in Suffolk County, New York. Railroads on Long Island. Streetcars in New York (state)
3rd Avenue, 5th Avenue, 86th Street, and Cropsey Avenue. August 12, 1948. now the B1 bus (part) Bay Ridge Avenue Line. Bay Ridge. Coney Island. 3rd Avenue, Bay Ridge Avenue, 13th Avenue, 86th Street, and Cropsey Avenue.
The following electric streetcar lines once operated in Staten Island, New York, United States.The first trip was on July 4, 1892, and the last was on January 26, 1934. The streetcar lines were mostly preceded by horse-car lines, and have generally been superseded by MTA Staten Island bus rou
Contents. List of streetcar systems in the United States. This is an all-time list of streetcar (tram), interurban and light rail systems in the United States, by principal city (or cities) served, and separated by political division, with opening and closing dates. It includes all such systems, past and present; cities with currently operating ...
The following streetcar lines once operated in Westchester County, New York. Many systems in Westchester eventually came under control of either the Third Avenue Railway , [1] the Fifth Avenue Coach Company , or the Connecticut Company -owned New York and Stamford Railway .
North America's first streetcar lines opened in 1832 from downtown New York City to Harlem by the New York and Harlem Railroad, in 1834 in New Orleans, and in 1849 in Toronto along the Williams Omnibus Bus Line. These streetcars used horses and sometimes mules. Mules were thought to give more hours per day of useful transit service than horses ...