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Posted by GojiMet86 on Sat Oct 13 20:55:38 2018                        |
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Posted by Wallyhorse on Sun Oct 14 09:46:55 2018, in response to Jay Street Connecting Railroad, posted by GojiMet86 on Sat Oct 13 20:55:38 2018. Nice stuff!Never realized there were trolley tracks along there. |
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Posted by Kevin from Midwood on Sun Oct 14 10:09:27 2018, in response to Re: Jay Street Connecting Railroad, posted by Wallyhorse on Sun Oct 14 09:46:55 2018. The first minute of his video explains that those aren't trolley tracks. Maybe you should watch it. source |
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Posted by jan k. lorenzen on Sun Oct 14 14:29:09 2018, in response to Re: Jay Street Connecting Railroad, posted by Kevin from Midwood on Sun Oct 14 10:09:27 2018. There was a couple of stretches of BRT streetcar track on Washington St., Front St., Water St. and Prospect St. in DUMBO, but all were abandoned by reconfigurations of routes to Fulton Ferry by October of 1932. The BRT tracks were all removed except for where they crossed the Jay St. Conn. RR. The last piece around into the 00's was a crossing at Main and Front St., you could see the differences in the rail profiles between the BRT and Jay St. girder rails.To your point, anything left down there is all Jay St. Conn. RR trackage remnants. |
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Posted by DieselBusFan on Sun Oct 14 17:09:57 2018, in response to Re: Jay Street Connecting Railroad, posted by jan k. lorenzen on Sun Oct 14 14:29:09 2018. Did the Jay St Connecting RR have any junction with another rr in Brooklyn, or did it just have a connection to the national network by carfloat? |
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Posted by LA Scott on Mon Oct 15 09:31:45 2018, in response to Re: Jay Street Connecting Railroad, posted by DieselBusFan on Sun Oct 14 17:09:57 2018. From what I can tell, Jay St had no connections other than carfloat.By the time it was built, the closest connected RR with freight was LIRR Flatbush. There was another small carfloat connected railroad along the Brooklyn waterfront on the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge (near current Piers 1-4 of Brooklyn Bridge Park), but I can't easily find information about it online. Governors Island and the Brooklyn Navy Yard also had an isolated railroads. |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Mon Oct 15 13:00:04 2018, in response to Jay Street Connecting Railroad, posted by GojiMet86 on Sat Oct 13 20:55:38 2018. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Oct 15 13:09:55 2018, in response to Re: Jay Street Connecting Railroad, posted by LA Scott on Mon Oct 15 09:31:45 2018. There was also the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal (BEDT) in Williamsburg. |
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Posted by chicagomotorman on Mon Oct 15 13:36:15 2018, in response to Jay Street Connecting Railroad, posted by GojiMet86 on Sat Oct 13 20:55:38 2018. Thank you. Another thing for me to check out next time I'm in New York. |
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Posted by italianstallion on Mon Oct 15 14:57:12 2018, in response to Re: Jay Street Connecting Railroad, posted by Bill Newkirk on Mon Oct 15 13:00:04 2018. Good stuff. |
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Posted by Andrew Saucci on Mon Oct 15 19:52:15 2018, in response to Jay Street Connecting Railroad, posted by GojiMet86 on Sat Oct 13 20:55:38 2018. Thanks for sharing that; this seems to have been an important part of Brooklyn history, and I knew nothing about it until now. |
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Posted by GojiMet86 on Mon Oct 15 23:42:13 2018, in response to Re: Jay Street Connecting Railroad, posted by LA Scott on Mon Oct 15 09:31:45 2018. In 1913, there was a plan to build a Brooklyn version of the High Line that would have connected Bush Terminal, Brooklyn Army Terminal, LIRR 65th Street, New York Dock, 8th Ward Market, the Delaware Lackawanna & Western 25th Street Terminal, the State Barge Canal, and the Municipal Piers at 29th, 30th and 35th Streets. It was called the Brooklyn Marginal Railway.From that Industrial railroad website:  Now, there were no plans to connect it to Jay Street, but that would have been fascinating to see. |
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Posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Oct 16 00:40:28 2018, in response to Re: Jay Street Connecting Railroad, posted by GojiMet86 on Mon Oct 15 23:42:13 2018. What would have been really cool is if it kept on going and eventually ending up at the Navy Yard |
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