Traction N Trolleys

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This video is for all our traction and trolley fans. Here is great film from the 30's and 40's, and some from the 50's and 60's. Green Frog has created an entertaining and informative video of how it used to be when traction and trolleys were an integral part of our economy.

We'll visit the North Shore Railroad (including some spectacular Winter scenes), the South Shore, Seattle Trolleys of the 30's and 40's, Yakima Valley operations, and in the 1930's, the Third Avenue Trolleys, the New York Westchester & Boston, Public Service Transport of New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley Transit (Some of the LV of the 30's in color!).

The majority of the original film was shot using 16mm COLOR film, the Eastern film from the 30's was shot on 8mm black & white, and some color...very rare!

Approx. 58 Minutes
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo

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[travelsonic]

@travelsonic @travelsonic This being in 1919

[travelsonic]

@RaananVolesPianist Found the post I referred to - between 5:03 PM and 7:59 PM there were scheduled 45 trains, 12 belonging to the NYNH&H, the other 33 being NYW&B trains. I'd say that's a lot of trains in that time period compared to what we see today.

[travelsonic]

@RaananVolesPianist Don't know if consist size alone means a lot - besides the fact that the Westchester's ridership only increased throughout its short life - that, and at the beginning the number of trains they ran was, to say the least, *probably* a bit much. I remember seeing a post on the The NHRHTA's web forum showing a timetable for West Farms during the AM and PM peaks - made the NYNH&H's schedule look even more tame than it already [really] was in comparison.

[travelsonic]

@G1Ravage and up until about 2004 or so, the stretch from 180th to West Farms still existed. Catenary bridge #1 for the NYW&B is still standing just a little bit north of the site where the interlocking used to be.

[pbatommy]

@Wehategod Can you convert it to DVD for me?

[Butchuk2007]

Look at the film of the NYW&B. What a shame they closed it and ripped it apart.

Mind you that kind of mindless vandalism continued in the U.K right up until the 60s & again in the early 1970s with the closure of branch lines off mainline railways.

[Wehategod]

NYW&B was America's First all Electric Railway no steam and the first line to have Platforms at Door Level unlike other railways at the time who had low end platforms. It also had Air Conditioned Cars too.

[Wehategod]

I own a NYW&B tape

[RaananVolesPianist]

The fact that they were running one-car trains shows how little demand there was for this service. Nevertheless, something should have been done with ALL of it, not only the Bronx portion--maybe a trolley line. But unfortunately, in the 1930s and '40s, the attitude was that the auto was the coming thing, and small interurbans like the Westchester were only relics of the past. I'd like to see a light rail line somwhere in Westchester, but as to where, I leave it to the experts.

[pbatommy]

The Morris Park station still has the NYWB logos on the station entrance. I not only live on the line--I WORK on it as a train operator.