Talk:Culver Line (surface)

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A few links that may help me write this:

• BMT surface map
• cable car articles
• Coney Island transportation
• davidrumsey.com has an 1897 Rand McNally map of Brooklyn

--NE2 02:37, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Here's a rough timeline:

• October 9, 1874: Greenwood and Coney Island Railroad and Park Avenue Railroad merged to form PP&CI
• June 19, 1875: opened
• May 7, 1876: Atlantic Avenue Railroad opened streetcar line from 5th Avenue along 15th Street and 9th Avenue to PP&CI - but the 9th Avenue line already existed on an 1874 map
• 1878 schedule specifies several horse car routes, not just the Vanderbilt Avenue one:
  • Park, Vanderbilt and Ninth Avenue Cars, of the Brooklyn Division, from Fulton and Catherine Ferries direct to the Depot
  • Adams, Boerum Street and Fifth Avenue Cars, direct to the Depot
  • Atlantic and Fifth Avenue Cars, direct to the Depot
    • (Note that none of the above direct lines were Brooklyn City Railroad lines in 1874.)
  • Jay, Smith and 9th Streets, and Hamilton Avenue and 9th Street Cars, by transferring at Ninth Avenue and 10th Street, and by the Cross-Town, Flushing, Myrtle, De Kalb, Greene, Fulton, and Flatbush Avenue Cars, by changing at Vanderbilt Avenue
• July 1, 1879: leased New York and Coney Island Railroad (chartered February 5, 1879, opened June 9, 1879)
• June 10, 1883: built a track in Concord Street between Washington and Bridge
• December 1885: acquired by Atlantic Avenue Railroad (leased by mid-1886); LIRR leased Atlantic Avenue Railroad??
• May 27, 1887: Park Avenue line sold to Atlantic Avenue Railroad???
• ca. 1889 schedule specifies several direct lines:
  • Seventh Avenue line from Fulton Ferry, via East River Bridge, City Hall and Atlantic Avenue
  • Park, Vanderbilt and Ninth Avenue line and the Jay and Smith Street line, from Fulton and Catherine Ferries and East River Bridge, via Prospect Park
  • Hamilton Avenue and Ninth Street line, and Hamilton Avenue and 15th Street line from Hamilton Ferry
• January 1, 1890: leased Prospect Park and South Brooklyn Railroad (chartered June 12, 1888)
• 1893: LIRR acquired majority interest in PP&CI
• 1893 or 1894: Brooklyn Traction Company bought stock of Atlantic Avenue Railroad, but that's not important here, unless they owned the Park Avenue line
• June 17, 1899: leased to Brooklyn Heights Railroad (from April 1?)
• July 16, 1899: electrified
• February 28 or March 1, 1907: leased to South Brooklyn Railway, including New York and Coney Island Railroad and Prospect Park and South Brooklyn Railroad

--NE2 03:14, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

The G&CI chartered route can be seen on "From Albany". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 12 March 1874. p. 2.. --NE2 00:00, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

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