SKU: T24

This fine program continues our traction tour of Brooklyn with coverage of several trolley excursions and visits to a number of elevated and subway lines in the Borough.

Opening with scenes taken during a rather unusual 1946 fantrip pulled by an electric steeple-cab locomotive over some freight-only trackage and other Brooklyn lines, the program then presents more trolley action as we ride another 1946 excursion to various points on the system. Next, see the system in 1951 as we offer color film sequences taken on the trip by three different railfans on the same excursion! You'll also visit Coney Island yard, view the scrapping of trolleys, watch as PCC 1050 poignantly takes her last trip, and witness part of PCC 1001's journey to her new museum home at the Shore Line Trolley Museum in Connecticut.

Brooklyn also had a very extensive network of elevated railway lines which featured a quaint variety of ancient rolling stock. You'll see these unique trains in action on the Myrtle, Fulton, Culver, and Lexington lines in the 1940s and 50s. The program concludes with vignettes of the Brighton line and the last trains to 168th Street on the Jamaica Avenue el.