The IRT Third Avenue Line, commonly known as the Third Avenue Elevated, Third Avenue El, or Bronx El, was an elevated railway in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City. Originally operated by the New York Elevated Railway, an independent railway company, it was acquired by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and eventually became part ...

2018年6月27日 · For the next 80 years, the elevated railway would shape the city, spurring rival transit developments, pushing the city’s population outward, and changing the architectural fabric of the...

Official map and guide to all the elevated railways in New York City." - Description derived from published bibliography. Outline map of Manhattan showing stations. Includes train schedule and list of points of interest.

The 3rd Avenue Elevated line in Manhattan was constructed between 1875 and 1878 by the New York Elevated Railway Company. The line was to run from City Hall along the Bowery and Third Avenue to the Harlem River.

An elevated railway or elevated train (also known as an el train or el for short) is a railway with the tracks above street level on a viaduct or other elevated structure (usually constructed from steel, cast iron, concrete, or bricks).

The New York Elevated Railroad was not a car builder. It was a standard gauge railroad under the control of Jay Gould from which the narrow gauge South Park Railroad acquired six passenger cars in 1880.

New York Elevated Road. The first line to be put in practical operation was popularly known as the Greenwich street elevated, although its corporate name was the New York Elevated Railroad. The plan of this road originated with C. T. Harvey.

2013年7月2日 · The first elevated trains, or “els,” ran in New York City on this day in 1878. The trains on the el tracks were actual trains – large, dirty, and heavy steam powered locomotives. The idea of using horse drawn cars, rather than trains, was floated, but there is one thing worse than ash and cinders falling from elevated tracks, and it comes ...

The IRT Ninth Avenue Line, often called the Ninth Avenue Elevated or Ninth Avenue El, [1] was the first elevated railway in New York City. It opened in July 1868 as the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway , as an experimental single-track cable-powered elevated railway from Battery Place, at the south end of Manhattan Island, northward up ...

We may take the "elevated railroads" of New York as an instance of metropolitan railways for local service above the ground. In 1867 the first attempt was made to improve existing means of transit between the residential and the business quarters of the city by the construction of an elevated railroad worked by a wire rope and a stationary engine.