New!! Other (even less relevant but equally or more bizarre ) Oddities & Curiosities

The Brooklyn Enigma (trolley accidents and the paranormal) L.I. Star Journal Article (Feb 13, 1946) on the removal of trolleys from the streets of Brooklyn and Queens Innovative adaptive re-use of Ex-Brooklyn PCC cars Congressman goes to bat for Chicago trolley project In NY the earth spins more quickly round it's axis? Trolley Graveyards - what happened to all the trolleys in New York and other American cities? Congressional History Of Railways (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.