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RAILROADS
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OTHERS TIMES
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OTHERS PLACES
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NEW YORK City
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9th Ave. Elevated IRT
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The IRT Ninth Avenue Line, often called the Ninth Avenue Elevated or Ninth Avenue El,
was the first elevated railway in New York City.
It opened on July 3, 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 Greenwich Street to Cortlandt Street.
It ceased operation on June 11, 1940, after it was replaced by the IND Eighth Avenue Line
which had opened in 1932.
New York Elevated Railway train on the West Side of Manhattan
1873
Source of Photograph:
Scientific American, Vol XLI, No. 17,
Oct. 25, 1879.
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Sixth Street,
1876 or early 1877
Source of Photograph:
New York Historical Society: Photographs of New York City and Beyond
Old Elevated Railroad Operation in NYC
ca1878
From Manufacturer and Builder / Volume 9, Issue 4,
May 1875
Under the name of dummy locomotives are understood such as are surrounded by a casing
so as to hide the boiler and the greater part of the machinery.
The finest engines of this class are now being built by the well-known engineering firm
of Messrs. Hampson, Whitehill & Co., of 88 Cortlandt street, New York,
for the New York Elevated Railroad, running through Greenwich street and Ninth avenue,
over which each of these engines draws two or three comfortable cars,
giving the best of accommodation to the passengers.
The first cars on the NY Elevated RR had the floors between the trucks depressed to
a few inches above the running rails to overcome passengers’ fear of the cars tipping over.
They were known as “shad-belly” cars.
Source of Photograph:
The Municipal Engineers of the City of New York Proceedings for 1913;
edited by W. H. Roberts; New York: 1913.
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at the Battery (Whitehall Street) Station,
undated.
Source of Photograph:
New York Historical Society: Photographs of New York City and Beyond
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, looking southwest from W. 42nd Street to 44th Street,
May 1876 [1875]
Source of Photograph:
New York Historical Society: Photographs of New York City and Beyond
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, looking north from W. 97th Street,
1879.
Source of Photograph:
New York Historical Society: Photographs of New York City and Beyond
NY Elevated Ry train north of Central Park - tracks 57 ft. above the street, New York City
1879
Source of Photograph:
Scientific American, Vol XLI, No. 17, Oct. 25, 1879.
Warren St. paved with creo-resinate wood block pavement
1903
Source of Photograph:
Proceedings of the Municipal Engineers of the City of New York, New York: 1903.
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, north from the northeast corner of W. 95th Street,
1891.
Source of Photograph:
New York Historical Society:
Photographs of New York City and Beyond
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 59th Street and 60th Street,
1876.
59th Street , opened on June 9, 1879, was a local station on the demolished IRT Ninth Avenue Line.
It had two levels.
The lower level was built first and had two tracks and two side platforms that served local trains. The upper level was built as part of the Dual Contracts and had one track that served express trains. It closed on June 11, 1940.
The next southbound stop was 50th Street for Ninth Avenue trains and Eighth Avenue
for IRT Sixth Avenue Line trains.
The next northbound stop was 66th Street.
Source of Photograph:
New York Historical Society:
Photographs of New York City and Beyond
New York Elevated RR locomotive Centennial, Built by Baldwin
in June 1876
These dummy locomotives became very popular for steam propelled engine for street cars.
Source of Photograph:
New York Historical Society:
Photographs of New York City and Beyond.
Forney type locomotive built by Baldwin
1889
To meet the needs for more trains on the elevated system in New York City,
lighter locomotives were needed.
These locomotives had to run both ways and through curves of only 90 ft. radius.
[The Railroad and Engineering Journal, pg. 332. July 1889]
Forney 0-4-0 locomotive for NYC Elevated Ry
ca 1866
Mr. M. N. Forney patented the plan for this type of locomotive in 1866.
A number of these locomotives were built at the Rogers Locomotive Works.
[The Railroad and Engineering Journal, pg. 48, January, 1887]
Manhattan El locomotive 111, Built by Brooks,
1874
This New York Elevated RR Forney locomotive bears a manufacturer's plate
for Burnham. Parry and Williams Co. of Baldwin Loco. Works in Philadelphia.
Source of Photograph:
New York Historical Society:
Photographs of New York City and Beyond.
Locomotive on the L
Manhattan Railway locomotive 176 built by New York Locomotive,
Rome NY in 1887
Source of Photograph:
New York Historical Society:
Photographs of New York City and Beyond.
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, looking south from north of W. 100th Street,
February 1891.
Source of Photograph:
New York Historical Society:
Photographs of New York City an.d Beyond
Elevated Ry at 110th St. and 8th Ave., New York
1879
Source of Photograph:
Scientific American, Vol XLI, No. 17, Oct. 25, 1879
Elevated Railway at 110th St. and 8th Ave. at Columbian Univ.
1899
This picture taken by Dr. Joshua Fulton Ensor in 1899 on what was probably
a Kodak folding pocket camera.
This was the beginning of the snap shot era with many amateur photographers.
There seems to be no record of why Dr. Ensor made this trip to the Philippines at age 65.
He was a Civil War veteran, active member of the GAR and the postmaster of Columbia SC.
He appears to be an active member of an Army Volunteer unit traveled from South Carolina
to New York City and then by train to San Francisco where the unit was taken aboard
the USAT Tacoma, a contract transport sailing ship, for the long trip to Manila.
The return trip is not recorded in his photo album but he survived and continued to serve
as the Post Master of Columbia SC until his death in 1907.
[Images are faded with some defects but I have been able to restore the images as best as I can.]
Source of the Photograph:
Ensor Family Photograph Album at the Library digital collection,
University of South Carolina, public domain -
no commercial.
The Elevated NYC
Possibly 110th St.
Elevated Railroads at 110th St
Morningside Park & Cathedral Heights
Elevated Station at South Ferry, Manhattan
Apr. 19, 1938
Source of Photograph:
National Archives - Airscapes Collection for New York - New York
Another view of Houston St. Station on the IRT
ca1950
Photographer: Eugene Harris
Source of photograph:
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Library Digital Collections:
Express at 9th St. Station
9th Ave. Station