Older Updates:
UPDATED (4.17.2004)
News
From around the Borough
NEW! New York Times
(1.10.2004)
The
Trolley Guy's Last Ride (All 12 Feet of It)
NEW! (Posted
1.08.04)
BHRA in the
1980s - Pictures of trolley #3 running on the streets of DUMBO
Updated (1.08.04)
Hyperlinked text added to BHRA History Page.
NEW! Brooklyn Heights Courier article
(Posted
12.31.03)
City Rips Up
Dreams For New Brooklyn Trolley
NEW! New York Daily News
(
12.22.03)
Dang, dang, dang goes the trolley
NEW! New York Post
(Posted
12.21.03, Updated 1.05.04)
Articles
written about Arthur Melnick, the founder of the non-affiliated
'Brooklyn City Streetcar Inc.'
NEW! Brooklyn Heights Courier
(Posted
12.21.03)
Article
by the founder of the 'Brooklyn City Streetcar
Inc.'
NEW! Brooklyn Heights Courier article
(Posted
12.09.03)
Trolley
King: 'Don't Give Up On Streetcars Just Because City Did'
NEW! New York Daily News
(Posted
12.08.03, Updated 12.09.03 )
Tracking trolley folly - Streetcar buff rails as rival revival plan
rolls
NEW! Brooklyn Heights Courier article
(Posted
12.07.03)
Tug-of-War
Over Who Will Realize Streetcar Dream
NEW! New York Post article
(Posted
12.06.03)
Brooklyn
Trolleys Get the Hook
NEW! The Brooklyn Papers
article (Posted 12.06.03)
Trolley War
- Who'll Put Streetcars Inside the Park?
NEW! New York Post article
(Posted
11.17.03)
Getting on
the Right Track in Brooklyn
UPDATED (9.18.03)
News
From around the Borough
UPDATED (9.18.03)
BHRA's
Green Initiative (recently added news articles at bottom)
UPDATED (9.3.03)
Rehabilitation
of PCC # 3303
UPDATED (9.3.03)
Pictures
of PCC # 3299
UPDATED (9.3.03)
BHRA
Rail Fleet Roster Page
New!! New York
Daily News Article:
Soho in
Brooklyn (8.15.03)
New!! Brooklyn
Daily Eagle Article: Diamond To
Have His Day in Court (8.14.03)
Updated!
New York Newsday
Article (full text and images) :
A Breached
Trolley Rebirth
(8.13.03)
Updated News
From around the Borough Page (8.12.03)
New!! Brooklyn Heights Courier Article:
He Found It,
Now Trolley King Is Fined For Entering Tunnel
(8.11.03)
New!! New York
Newsday Article:
A Breached
Trolley Rebirth
(8.10.03)
Updated! Project
News & Updates Page with a project updates
from March 2003 to Current (8.06.03)
Updated! News
From around the Borough (8.05.03)
New!! New York
Sun Article: City Derails
Dream of Red Hook Trolley (7.22.03)
New!! Other
News From around the Borough (7.22.03)
New!! New
York City DOT Issues Letter of Revocation Clarification (7.09.03)
New!! New
York City DOT Revokes & Terminates Consent Agreement, and
Orders BHRA to Demolish Brooklyn Trolley Project. (6.30.03)
New!! Project
News & Updates Page with a project updates
from March 2003 to Current (6.30.03)
New!! Newly
posted
New York Times Article from 1997 (how it all
started - back when times were good (with vintage route
map)).
New!! Carroll
Gardens Courier Article:
'Rail'
Trouble For Trolley King
(6.16.03)
New!! Carroll
Gardens Courier Article:
"Trolley
Gear Swept Off Waterfront" (6.3.03)
New!! Brooklyn Daily Eagle Article:
"City
Sends Crew To Seize Trolley Group's Material" (5.28.03)
New!! Project News & Updates - NYC
DOT Scraps Brooklyn Trolley Project (5.27.03)
New!! Brooklyn Heights Courier Article:
End
of the Line for End of the Line for Trolley Project? Property
Owner Orders Group Out (5.24.03)
New!! What's Inside,
the (almost) complete index to the web pages of
brooklynrail.com (the index is located at the
bottom of the BHRA home page) (3.07.03)
Updated Streamlined and improved Rail
Construction & BHRA Rail
Fleet Page Pages (3.05.03)
Updated
Granville
T. Woods
page - revised section relating to
recognition of Granville T. Woods contributions during the NYC Subway System's upcoming centennial
celebration (2.17.03)
New!! When
Tug Boats Attack
Page (2.12.03)
New!! The
African Presence in Transportation - A great
article written by David Head (2.12.03)
Updated
Granville
T. Woods
page - new page background and newly
posted Historic Newspaper Articles & Headlines (2.12.03)
Updated
Granville
T. Woods page - His
inventions made New York's Subway system possible (Text
additions) (2.10.03)
New!!
John Henry
Page -
The Man & The Legend - Facts, Fiction and Themes.
Also the 1946 Animated Movie and the Original John Henry Folk Song
(2.07.03)
New!! North
Korean Rapid Transit & Propaganda Poster Page - Pyongyang's
Subways /Trolleys/ Trams/ Light Rail of Metro (2.05.03)
New!!
Congressional History Of Railways In the United States (pdf)
(published in 1908 and 1910). All kinds of interesting stuff,
including a planned Pacific to Atlantic rail link in Panama and
a proposed magnetically powered trans-continental national
railway. Enjoy. (2.04.03)
Updated Oddities,
Curiosities & sort of relevant (but interesting) stuff
(1.31.03)
New!! Frank
Sprague Page- Electric Traction In Space Of Three Dimensions page
- we acquired and scanned in Frank Sprague's 1931 Journal
Series on electric traction. Enjoy.
(1.28.03)
Updated
Historic
Brooklyn Page with newly scanned in Brooklyn
Trolley Photos (Peter Witts, PCCs, 6000 Series, etc). (1.24.03)
New!! Ridiculed
Discoverers, Vindicated Mavericks; Weird Research, Anomalous
Physics & Other Weird Science page (1.23.03)
New!!
Granville
T. Woods page - His
inventions made New York's Subway system possible (Research
documents courtesy of David Head) (1.22.03)
New!! Oddities,
Curiosities & sort of relevant (but interesting) stuff page
(1.19.03)
New!! The
BHRA Aerial Photography Project (Bob's Pictures of
Pennsylvania Heavy Industry & the Surrounding Countryside)
page (1.19.03)
Updated
Maps
Page with new Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Map
and Brooklyn Bridge Park Area Preliminary / Conceptual
Trolley Line Map (1.12.03)
Restored Why PCCs for
Brooklyn page (1.07.03)
Updated
Atlantic
Avenue Tunnel Page and Rail Fleet
page (1.07.03)
New
brooklynrail.com web site format. We have switched
from frames to a new HTML format. Douglas Meehan wrote the
HTML and helped us out with the switch. This new
format should solve the navigation problems Netscape and
Mozilla users sometimes experienced.
(1.07.03)
New
Links
Page (12.20.02)
New
BHRA Contributions
& Support Page (12.21.02)
New
BHRA Goods
Page (BHRA hats, shirts, etc for sale) (12.21.02)
Updated
Links
Page (12.20.02)
Atlantic
Avenue Tunnel Underground
Art Events Page (12.20.02)
BHRA
Brooklyn
Trolley Project
Phase
II Ribbon Cutting Ceremony & Recent
Events Page (12.15.02)
New Streaming
Video and QuickTime Movies Page(12.10.02)
New Page
Format
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at Top
of Page)
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