Author: Mildred Hesse SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Early History of the Long Island Railroad, 1834-1900
Author: Mildred Hesse SmithThe Long-Island Rail-Road Company a History 1834 - 1965
Author: Robert C. SturmPublisher:
ISBN: 9780988691643
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A corporate history of the Long Island Rail Road prior to its acquisition by the State of New York
History of the Long Island Railroad Company, 1834-1898
Author: Elizur Brace HinsdalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Low Living and High Thinking at Modern Times, New York
Author: Roger WunderlichPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815625544
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This text examines the Modern Times community which championed every kind of reform from abolitionism, women's rights and vegetarianism to hydropathy, pacifism, total abstinence and the bloomer costume. It relies on primary sources such as land deeds, census entries and eyewitness accounts.
History of the Long Island Railroad Company, 1834-1898 (1898)
Author: Elizur Brace HinsdalePublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498148306
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.
The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History, Part One: South Side R.R. of L.I
Author: Vincent F. SeyfriedPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
The Long Island Railroad is the third oldest in the USA and has been in operation since 1836. When it opened in 1867 the South Side Railroad was its first direct competitor. In his detailed book, Vincent F. Seyfried has given a comprehensive account of its development.
Long Island Rail Road
Author: David D. MorrisonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439671893
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Long Island Rail Road is the oldest railroad in the country still operating under its original name. It is the busiest railroad in North America, with 90 million annual riders on 735 trains covering 11 different branches. The Babylon Branch, which serves 15 stations from Valley Stream to Babylon, carries 18 million annual riders over its 20-mile right-of-way. The branch has been totally electrified since 1925 and has not had any street crossings at grade since 1979. There are three signal towers and four junctions for other branches on this line. Two railroad museums are housed in former branch station buildings, those being Wantagh and Lindenhurst.
Long Island Rail Road Stations
Author: David D. MorrisonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738511801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Chartered in 1834 to provide a route between New York City and Boston, the Long Island Rail Road ran from the Brooklyn waterfront through the center of Long Island to Greenport. The railroad served the agricultural market on Long Island until branches and competing lines eventually developed on the north and south shores of the island and several hundred passenger stations were built. After Penn Station was opened in 1910, the number of passengers commuting between Manhattan and Long Island began to multiply. Today, one hundred twenty-five stations serve the Long Island Rail Road. Long Island Rail Road Stations contains vintage postcards of the old Penn Station, which was demolished in the mid-1960s; the Grand Stairway at the Forest Hills Station, where Theodore Roosevelt delivered his famous unification speech on July 4, 1917; and the Amagansett station building, where Nazi spies boarded a train bound for New York City on June 13, 1942. Many of the historic stations featured in this book have been preserved by local preservation groups, while others have been replaced with modern buildings to accommodate the passengers who commute on the nation's largest commuter railroad.
Garden City, Long Island, in Early Photographs, 1869-1919
Author: Mildred H. SmithPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486406695
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Handsome treasury of 118 vintage pictures, accompanied by captions, document the Garden City Hotel fire (1899), the Vanderbilt Cup Race (1908), the first airmail flight departing from the Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome (1911), more.
How We Got to Coney Island
Author: Brian J. CudahyPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 082322211X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
A 150-year history of the planning, construction, and development of all forms of mass transportation in Brooklyn, New York. How We Got to Coney Island is the definitive history of mass transportation in Brooklyn. Covering 150 years of extraordinary growth, Cudahy tells the complete story of the trolleys, street cars, steamboats, and railways that helped create New York’s largest borough—and the remarkable system that grew to connect the world’s most famous seaside resort with Brooklyn, New York City across the river, and, ultimately, the rest of the world. Includes tables, charts, photographs, and maps. Praise for How We Got to Coney Island “This is an example of a familiar and decidedly old-fashioned genre of transport history. It is primarily an examination of the business politics of railway development and amalgamation in Brooklyn and adjoining districts since the mid-nineteenth century.” —The Journal of Transport History