What's Inside Listed below is the near-complete index to the web pages of brooklynrail  (Note: this hasn't been updated in a long time, click on the "WHAT's NEW" tab to see new webpages that have not yet been added to this index.)   About Us - BHRA Organizational, Contact & Events Information Who we are, the history of BHRA BHRA Supporters  Corntibute to BHRA  Press & Media Coverage Contact Us Subway FAQ (external link) Upcoming Events Past Events Upcoming tunnel tours & art events BHRA Stuff - Hats, shirts, etc (coming soon) BHRA - Current & Past Projects Planning Studies, Route Maps, Renderings & Illustrations Current & Proposed Route Maps Renderings and Illustrations   BHRA in the 1980s - operating the #3 trolley on the streets of DUMBO   Rail Construction in Red Hook (an illustrated undertaking) Phase I - construction on the waterfront portion of the route (completed) Phase IIa - beginning Phase II construction on Connover Street Phase IIb - Phase II construction on Connover & Reed Streets Phase IIc - Placing Rails using a boom truck Phase IId - Spiking Rails on Connover & Reed Streets Phase IIe - Leveling the tracks and pouring the concrete Phase IIf - Installing the trolley poles Phase IIg - Bending the Rails Project update page - the abandonment and demolition by the project's sponsoring agency - New York City DOT.   How well have we been doing? - Our "Report Card"/ Audit from State DOT     BHRA's Rail Cars & Restoration and Rehab of our PCC fleet The BHRA Rail Fleet (a listing of our Streetcars & Locomotives) Restoration and Rehab of our PCC fleet Restoration of ex-Boston Green line PCC #3303 Restoration of ex-Cleveland RTA (Shaker Heights) PCC #70 A look around our Shop Delivery of 12 PCCs to Brooklyn Delivery of the Vulcan Diesel Switcher Locomotive Before they were in Brooklyn, historic photos of BHRA's rail cars in service   Rail salvage operation in the Lehigh Valley (these rails are being re-used to construct our trolley line in Brooklyn)   The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel About The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Homepage Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Historic Research Page Upcoming tunnel tours & art events Link to Video Tunnel Tour (5 minute video)   Streetcars, PCCs, trams & trolleys; Academic and historic resource Historic & Academic Resources A brief History of the Streetcar Historical Brooklyn Transit Maps Historical Brooklyn Transit Images Before they were in Brooklyn, historic photos of BHRA's rail cars in service 1897-1920's - Oslo, Norway (BHRA #3 trolley in service) 1947-1954 TCRT of Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (12 BHRA PCCs) 1954-1985 - Cleveland SHRT, RTA (Purchased PCCs from TCRT) 1985 - 2001 Buffalo NFTA (Purchased 12 PCCs from SHRT) 1951-1985 - Boston MTA, MBTA (Purchased New, Sold to BHRA) Electric Railway Historic & Academic Resources Frank Sprague -  Electric Traction In Space Of Three Dimensions Granville T. Woods, his inventions made NYC's Subway sys. possible Patents issued to Granville T. Woods The African Presence in Transportation (by David Head) Environmental and Pollution information   Virtural BHRA - Quicktime Video, Slideshows, What's new and more   What's new on brooklynrail.com (new web pages & site updates) Streaming Video and QuickTime Movies Oddities, curiosities & sort of relevant (but interesting) stuff Frank Sprague -  Electric Traction In Space Of Three Dimensions - Electric rail transit pioneer Granville T. Woods - Electric rail transit Inventor Links to other relevant  Websites Links    - - -  More coming soon!!!
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