Old New York

bluelinec4 posted:

A few from around the city   One has my favorite beer truck in it

"favorite beer truck"?  That would be one with beer in it, correct?  

Just for the heck of it, I said Balentine, and was pleasantly surprised to see the name on the back of the truck. when I scrolled down! New York has to be the most fascinating city in the world; the architecture and the rail lines, the feeling one gets walking the streets, I just love it.

Don

So talking about beer trucks, here is a lineup of another well known New York Beer,

Another one of great Brooklyn beer, Piels, Rheingold, Schaffer. All gone. Growing up in Greenpoint, when the wind was right, the brewery aroma masked the Mobil gasoline spill odor from Newtown Creek.

 BEER Buses  

In addition to my love of trains I collect pictures of Old Beer trucks

Schaeffer

Ballantine

I don't see any mention of Knickerbocker Beer, produced by Ruppert Breweries (the original owner of the Yankees).

TrainPop posted:

I don't see any mention of Knickerbocker Beer, produced by Ruppert Breweries (the original owner of the Yankees).

Have yet to find any pics of the Ruppert Knickerbocker Trucks  Have a few of the brewery

This has been posted here before, but bears repeating. My favorite Ben Franklin quote...

Beer billboard reefers remain my #1 favorite car....

Went on a very long walk today in the Bronx from Wave Hill to Inwood. I took some nice shots from the Henry Hudson of the Spyten Dyvel area. 

It is kind of remarkable how much this area looks the same over many years while so much else has changed.  The former location of the Wye leg is harder to see after the wreck clean up from a few years ago.

 It is funny to me that the bridge tenders car still is parked there as close as possible on the Manhatten side. Circle line VS Amtrak.

I've always thought that this would be a classy scene on somebodies model railroad. 

Here is a Ruppert truck.

Tom

...and a Ruppert Knickerbocker.

Tom

Thinking this photo shows us the small yard that was on the second ave el at 129th street. Looks like late 1930s maybe. Nice find.

Sorry Ben, I can't open any of your pictures.

Wonderful photos.  Thanks for posting them. 

So here we have some old footage from New York City

Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQR-HKzESsM

How about some Peter Witts from the Brooklyn and Queens Transit 

The B&QT reached accross into Long Island City crossing Newtown Creek on the double Bascule Bridge on Manhattan Avenue. At Vernon Boulevard and Jackson Ave in Queens, the B&Qt had a turn around loop off the styreet. In this photo, we see a Peter Witt 8000 series making the turn back onto Vernon Blvd to head back to Brooklyn, This is likely a Graham Ave car in the Pre Board of Transportation colors .

 A bit later in time but near the end of Williamsburg Bridge service we have a Peter Witt making its way from Manhattan. The car has just left Bedford Avenue station which was on the Bridge, Prior to 1948, you could ride between Bedford Avenue and Delancy street in Manhattan for 2 cents. Still there were many walkers on the bridge. 

Farther out in Queens, The Grand Street Corona Avenue line had a connection to Laguardia Airport. It Ran on Junction Blvd, north to the airport. This Peter Witt is on its way back to Maspeth Depot passing under the LIRR Port Washington Line . The added attraction here is the LIRR Eastbound train on its way to Flushing and Port Washington. 

Most of the Peter Witts , ie the 8000 series were retired in the late `1940s , 1950 or so when many routes were converted to Busses . Most of these cars wore the Pre-Board of Transportation colors to the end as we see in the above photos. Some did make it to the Board of Transportation Green and Silver colors and soldiered on into the 1950's as reserve or extra rush hour service cars. Here's one working the McDonald Avenue Route coming into the Coney Island Area. PCCs were the mainstay of the McDonald Ave route until 1956 when they too were retired. 

The last photo for this post takes us out of Brooklyn and up to the Bronx, ie 242nd st and Broadway, just South of Manhattan College Parkway. I know there are a few Bronx guys that follow this thread. Maybe some of you went to Manhattan College as did I albeit a few years after this photo was made. You might remember the Pinewood on Broadway and the Greenleaf on Manhattan College Parkway. I think the Schaefer Beer sign is a nice touch.

These units displayed at the GM pavilion in 1939 fulfilled an order from the Seaboard Railroad  . They were delivered following the 1939 season of the fair. seaboard was the first railroad to dieselize its name trains back in the 1939-40. They probably worked the Silver Meteor train to Florida.