A full history of all the groundbreaking BMT subway equipment of this great rapid transit company. From their first standard subway car design that changed the history of subway design in New York City to the revolutionary use of articulation and light weight alloys. Fully illustrated with color and b/w photographs. This is the first work to document this important part of urban transit.

Subway Cars of the Bmt

James Clifford Greller

Greller, James C.

History

Xplorer Pr

A pictorial of the pioneer PCC trolley fleet of Brooklyn. From 1936 to the end of trolley operations in 1956, this first order of PCC cars are traced one car at a time. In 87 pages, all in black &amp; white photographs, each car comes to represent a stage of their short history.

100 PCC Trolley Cars Ran in Brooklyn

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Xplorer Press

A history and pictorial documentation of the various NYCTA buses that replaced the Brooklyn streetcar system in Brooklyn &amp; Queens. Here, Mack, Twin Coach and GMC models are placed in session. Black &amp; White and color photographs illustrate the various types and some background into their manufacture.

NYC Transit System Bus & Trolly

Automotive

The fourth edition of the NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY CARS book. This popular work, now updated, with the newest editions to the vast New York City transit system. The book begins where the third edition ended. It starts with the order the new orders of R142, R143 and R160 in detail. There are drawing and color photographers by some of the best urban rail photographers. In the new hard cover 200-page book, all the historical facts from the first R-1 to the future fleet of R188 are covered. The retirement and disposition of the R32 and R40s is also included as well as some work equipment there are drawings of each car with roster information the book features where the great system is headed in the future. A must for the New York subway enthusiast

New York Subway Cars From R-1 To R-160

Xplorer Press Inc.

This is the second edition of the Brooklyn El Book first published in 1987. This book concentrates on the beginning of the Elevated equipment from the Steam railroads to Coney Island, the New York and Brooklyn Bridge cable cars and the steam el s. How all that equipment became part of the formidable Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. Here is a historical illustration of how transportation made the great transformation of a small Dutch farm land into a major metropolis possible. The herculean task of turning hundredths of steam coaches into electric motor cars and later their conversion from open platform El cars to fleets of multiple unit controlled closed door units. The thinking and craftsmanship of a pasted management that viewed every new problem as an an opportunity to develop equipment that meet the challenge.

Brooklyn Elevated Equipment