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Here?s an interesting program offering rare archive film footage of some of the elevated lines in Manhattan and The Bronx. Most of the scenes were filmed by traction expert and modeler Walter Druck over a period of several decades.

Opening with a look at some of the rolling stock used on the Els, the program then offers an extended visit to the famous Third Avenue elevated line, which made its first runs in 1878. The Manhattan portion of the El, which began at the South Ferry Terminal and extended northward via the Bowery and Third Avenue, closed in May 1955, but the section from 149th Street to Gun Hill Road in the Bronx lasted until 1973. You?ll take several rides over the line, and then view the Bronx portion in its final days.

Rounding out the program are visits to Corona Yard in Queens, views of the Dyre Avenue line (formerly part of the New York, Westchester & Boston interurban line) right after its reopening in 1940 as part of the New York City transit system, and some IRT vignettes including the Polo Grounds Shuttle.