Brooklyn Bridge

Here a few more

Wow

 

Great photos!

 

Thanks for sharing!

Great pics over a cup of Joe on a Sunday morning! Thanks for sharing! Look forward to meeting you at Trainstock. My pal Alex as well.

man those are some good pictures. the third picture in the first post, did they run on trolley after another, that close togeter at rush hour? thats a lot of trolleys. in the 9th picture it looks like a steam engine and one car. I didn't know steam ever ran on the bridge.

Thanks for Posting!!
The Battleship is Really Cool…
Would that Warship be a Destroyer?

K.C.

Thanks Ben,  

Great photos - what an engineering feat!

Imagine if we still had service over the Brooklyn bridge today. Great Stuff Man!

The little steam engine is a Fourney   They were used on the El's until electrification

 

The two warships are both battleships.  The first one is the Florida and the second one is the Arizona before it met its fate at Pearl Harbor

 My fate changed forever in the middle of that bridge !

 That's where I got engaged.

I hope it was for the better Mike !  Great spot to pop the question.

Great pics! Thanks for sharing them.

 

FYI: I believe that is the USS Arizona in the first pic with a warship. I've seen that photo before. I'm not sure of the second photo as it's not the same ship...

 

Unfortunately, going over The Bridge is not so easy anymore... Hoards of tourists make it impractical if not impossible, especially if you try to use the bike lane. Daily confrontations with cyclists and tourists. But really how can you blame folks for not being conscious of the bike lane when on such a photogenic bridge.

 

But sadly the bridge is now littered with these "love locks". To me it's just another form of graffiti...

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...dge-article-1.980931

  She had a choice ,say yes or go over the side.Thankfully she said yes and it's been great the last 15 years.

  Not a day goes by that you don't see that bridge on television.  It will always be a constant reminder of that very special day.

 Wow, what a different place NYC was back then. Tons of tracks?

Seeing that war ship was something!

Yup you are correct the first pic is the Arizona on sea trial in 1918.  The second one was the USS Florida which was the first in her class  The Arizona was a Pennsylvania class.  The Florida launched from the Brooklyn Navy yard in 1910

Thanks. I really enjoyed these pics.

Both battleship photos are of the Arizona.  The Arizona has triple 14" guns in each turret, while the Florida had twin 12" guns in each turret.

 

Stuart

Imagine if we still had service over the Brooklyn bridge today. Great Stuff Man!

 

In 1912, the BRT operated its elevated trains and trolleys over the Brooklyn Bridge. Just about all areas served had elevated service to Downtown Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn via the Brooklyn Bridge. On the Manhattan end , the BRT had a wonderful train shed with multiple tracks and platforms. It was extended out over Park Row. Here is a view of the Manhattan end about 1905. The IRT's City Hall spur is behind the BRT structure. Its second level for the second Ave El had not yet been added at this time

On the Brooklyn End was the Sands Street terminal of the BRT. It was a three level affair which allowed trains for Manhattan to enter and continue over the Bridge, Trains which terminated at Sands Street entered and  used the twin loops on the upper Level. Fulton Street trains had a separate terminal on the second level for trains ending at sands Street and those continuing to the Fulton Ferry further west. Trolleys from Brooklyn and Queens used the street and second level to enter Sand Street either terminating at the terminal or continuing over the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan at Park Row.

 

Heres a view of Sand Street bing built in 1895. It was quite a bit along at the time.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a view of the complete terminal from the Fulton street El side. Tracks in the foreground continued west to the ferry while the spurs switching off served a seperate termination of Fulton trains going to Sand Street. Fulton street trains going to Manhattan went through the the main terminal building on the second level in the backround. You can also see te Trolley Turnaround tracks on the street level here. The upper level loops  served trains turning around here but not on the Fulton street line. This photo is from about 1935.

 

 

 

Prior to the construction of the BMT's 4th ave Subway in Brooklyn, Trains operating on all its el lines could reach lower Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge route using the sand Street complex. Here is a Route map from 1912 to illustrate.

 

 

 

From the southern part of Brooklyn, trains from Bay ridge, the Sea Beach Route, West End Route and Culver route all used the 5th ave El to reach Sand street while trains from Brighton Beach using what is today the Franklin ave shuttle used the Fulton street Line along with Fulton Trains from the east and Queens. Myrtle ave an d Lexington ave trains from Queens also entered Sand Street joining with the 5th ave El at Navy street. Trains on these routes used adams treet to get to Sand Street turning off and entering on the second level for through trains over the Bridge to manhattan or continuing on Adams Street to reach the loops at sand Street for trains staying in Brooklyn.

 

a good perspective is given from this aerial view which shows the complex of tracks in Downtown Brooklyn. Fulton street lines are on the Left with Sand Street in the upper center. The Adams street connection to the second and upper loop levels come in from the right in the photo.

 

 

The last train operated over the brooklyn Bridge in 1944. It was a Myrtle ave Train. The Last Trolley ran over the Bridge in 1950. It was a PCC car on the 7th Ave Line.

 

Ben also posted the following photo earlier.

 

 

 

In the foreground are the tracks of the jay street connecting railway. This was one of Brooklyns dock Raiways, serving the arbuckle coffee warehouses which you can see in the left of the photo. This companies tracks ran through the streets up North past the Manhattan Bridge where their car float and float bridge facility was located. They were probably the first of the Dock Railways to dieselize in New York City. They also operated what was probably the largest Tugboat in the harbor that was used for railroad carfloating. Its all long gone today,